Smart collections: Specify several paths?

[polyxo]

Is there some sneaky way for smart collections to dictate Bridge to only watch directories I specify? Let's say I want to target folder1 and subfolder4.1 and skip all matches from any other folder. 

root

• folder1
• folder2
  • subfolder2.1
• folder3
• folder4
  • subfolder4.1

[Lumigraphics]

No.

[polyxo]

Not the answer I wanted to hear, but the one I expected.

As the relevant GUI element already exists, it should take just a few minutes to allow more than one folder path.

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[Lumigraphics]

A Smart Collection is just a saved search. Searches don't work like that.

[polyxo]

I can' t follow. Of course, Smart Collections are saved searches - but what speaks against returning the merged results of two or more distinct search-operations? 

Performance with several combined searches should be a non-issue: Currently, I have to let Bridge sift though many GB of data whenever it is idle. Due to the way SC works right now, I cannot hinder Bridge from fetching results I predictably don't want, even if they do match the search pattern.

If should be a lot "cheaper" performance-wise to watch smaller directories with separate queries.

In the concrete case I cannot adjust the folder structure, so that the directories I'm interested in are nested.

[Lumigraphics]

You'll have to use two Smart Collections or write a custom search script.

Take a look at the XML format in a saved Smart Collection and see if you can figure it out. Good luck.

[polyxo]

Thank you. Data in .collection files is easy to read, yet Bridge ignores a second or third search path ( <ustring>bridge:fs) I add to that preset file. Well, Bridge loads any new collection that I create in a text-editor, but it only crawls the first path specified (and skips any additional paths).

Solving this with scripts (without GUI) wasn't very handy, as we'd like to keep track of 50+ folder-pairs.