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docs: add a note that importing requires there be no subdirectories (#170)
Also include some bash snippets to help users with existing video libraries containing subdirectories get their files all in one directory quickly. Co-authored-by: Stephen Herbein <sherbein@DESKTOP-EAJL82P.localdomain>
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Additional database functionality.
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## Manual Media Files Import
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## Manual Media Files Import
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So far this depends on the video you are trying to import to be still available on YouTube to get the metadata. Add the files you like to import to the */cache/import* folder. Then start the process from the settings page *Manual Media Files Import*. Make sure to follow one of the two methods below.
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So far this depends on the video you are trying to import to be still available on YouTube to get the metadata. Add the files you'd like to import to the */cache/import* folder. Then start the process from the settings page *Manual Media Files Import*. Make sure to follow one of the two methods below.
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### Method 1:
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### Method 1:
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Add a matching *.json* file with the media file. Both files need to have the same base name, for example:
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Add a matching *.json* file with the media file. Both files need to have the same base name, for example:
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@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Detect the YouTube ID from filename, this accepts the default yt-dlp naming conv
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### Some notes:
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### Some notes:
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- This will **consume** the files you put into the import folder: Files will get converted to mp4 if needed (this might take a long time...) and moved to the archive, *.json* files will get deleted upon completion to avoid having duplicates on the next run.
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- This will **consume** the files you put into the import folder: Files will get converted to mp4 if needed (this might take a long time...) and moved to the archive, *.json* files will get deleted upon completion to avoid having duplicates on the next run.
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- There should be no subdirectories added to */cache/import*, only video files. If your existing video library has video files inside subdirectories, you can get all the files into one directory by running `find ./ -mindepth 2 -type f -exec mv '{}' . \;` from the top-level directory of your existing video library. You can also delete any remaining empty subdirectories with `find ./ -mindepth 1 -type d -delete`.
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- Maybe start with a subset of your files to import to make sure everything goes well...
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- Maybe start with a subset of your files to import to make sure everything goes well...
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- Follow the logs to monitor progress and errors: `docker-compose logs -f tubearchivist`.
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- Follow the logs to monitor progress and errors: `docker-compose logs -f tubearchivist`.
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