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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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@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Create a zip file of the metadata and select **Max auto backups to keep** to aut
Additional database functionality.
## Manual Media Files Import
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.
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.
### Method 1:
Add a matching *.json* file with the media file. Both files need to have the same base name, for example:
@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Detect the YouTube ID from filename, this accepts the default yt-dlp naming conv
### Some notes:
- 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.
- 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`.
- Maybe start with a subset of your files to import to make sure everything goes well...
- Follow the logs to monitor progress and errors: `docker-compose logs -f tubearchivist`.