nextcloud
Ignoring folder should include subfolders
Describe the feature you'd like to request
I have added ".nomedia", ".noimage", ... to a bigger share. Unlikely all the subfolders are still scanned.
Describe the solution you'd like
The exclude tags should also exlude the subfolders. It is simply not practical to add ".nomedia" to all of the round about 200 subfolders
Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternatively ther could be an extra tag ".nosubfolders" to exclude all subfolders from scan.
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How did you add the ignore tag to the directory? Did you move it there or create it in place?
Sorry for late response. If the exclusion of subfolders is already in place, ignore my suggestion. I have not a trivial setup, but this should not matter. Nextcloud is running in a proxmox VM. The file system is virtfs routed from the host. I used bash to create an emtpy file with vi. Added read rights to others, but also set GID and UID to the same as the media files, so it should be readable by recognise. What is the difference betwwen creating and moving in place?
Nextcloud is on 30.0.0 Recognize is on 8.1.0
I started using recognize yesterday, and I am quite impressed by its ability to find cluster of faces (aka "persons", lol). Thanks for your work, @marcelklehr!
unfortunately, same bug for me:
Expected behaviour: adding ".noimage" file (creating via bash/touch command) should recursively deactivate crawling/scanning for faces.
Observed behaviour: adding ".noimage" file to userroot does not deactivate crawling for faces which are in subfolder "userroot/Photos".
I am not 100 % sure when I created the .noimage file (before or during first crawl), owner is root, rw-r-r rights.
MAYBE: it would be better to allow users to activate the App on their own and select the path(s) to crawl in the first place? This way, users have more control and are not unpleasantly surprised when being presented with persons from their past alongside people from their present, when opening the faces GUI?
Nextcloud version 31.0.10 Recognize version: 9.0.7
I cannot reproduce this, sadly. When adding a .nomedia file to the user root no faces show up in the memories app for me.