Base Project Folder pathway option for Preferences

Timo Maaranen said 10 minutes ago:

Hello,

Also I have thought that there could be a base folder option. But what happens if there should be two "basefolders" in a project? So if there is a base folder option I would still want to give a possibility to change the path in selected files. The basefolder would then be a default option that would not restrict to import files from other folders outside the basefolder.

But now I must begin to write that magic code...

Regards Timo M
Helen McCall said 2 seconds ago:

Hello Timo,

I will copy your latest reply to Bug #454135

Please make any further comments regarding this on Bug #454135

I will add some details of how I manage my folder structures for projects, which will help determine what project folder deifinitions are needed in the Preferences.

This way we can build up a blueprint for this part of the Preferences.

Best wishes, Helen

Hello,

I wrote the code and it seems to work well. I'll send it now to the hands of Jonathan - he may add it in the new version (hopefully?)

There is a new entry in the project files menu. Click it and a filedialog pops up and then select a folder and press open. The path in the names of selected project files are replaced with the new path - the names of the files are not changed. No more problems of usb disks. This was the easiest solution I think.

> By the way I wonder why you didn't use xml for the project file format.

For a human readable project file, see this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/499733

The solution is already implemented in the 1.1.0 milestone (not yet released).

I think there should be separate options for default project directory and default export directory. In 1.1.0 they both seem to be hardcoded to ~/Desktop (on Debian unstable).