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Import Agent Wildcard

asked on January 23, 2018

Hello, I was looking through the documentation and was wondering if it was possible for Import Agent to monitor an entire share drive with many sub-directories and only import files that have a format of
(XX-XXX-XXX) XXXXXX.MP4 and move it to a "Moved" folder but exclude that folder from being monitored?

 

In other words I have something like this

 

Root

   - Folder 1

         - Moved

    (XX-XXX-XXX) abcd.MP4

    ABDSD.MP4

   - Folder 2

         - Moved

    (XX-XXX-XXX) efg.MP4

    asdasd.MP4

 

And only move the (XX-XXX-XXX) files to the MOVED subfolders and not try to move those again. 

 

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replied on January 23, 2018 Show version history

Juan,

Under the "General" settings you can configure a regex-like filter on the imports using wildcards. For example, one of my profiles uses the filter *-*_??????????.tif to only grab Tiff files matching a specific naming format (anything + dash + anything + underscore + exactly 10 characters).

Next, when you configure post-proccessing, Import Agent automatically ignores the folders designated in the "Moved to" and "Moved failed files to" folders.

So, if you set the right filter expression you can target only the specifically formatted MP4 files, and if you configure your "MOVED" folder as the destination for completed imports the agent will not touch anything inside those folders unless you change the settings to use a different folder.

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replied on January 29, 2018

Quick question. 

 

Will Import Agent Ignore the entire folder structure for the "Moved To" and "Moved Failed Files To" Folders?

 

For example if my "Moved To" was something like

C:\Videos\Officer1\Moved To LF\

If I manually went in and added a sub-folder myself and added files to say 

C:\Videos\Officer1\Moved To LF\Archived\

Will Import Agent still ignore that folder when searching for files to move? 

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replied on January 30, 2018

It should ignore the folder you designate as well any subfolders. So if you create an "Archived" folder inside of the "Moved To" folder, it shouldn't touch anything in there either, but I've never done that before so you should test it first to confirm.

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