[Feature request] Customizable watch folder names

[micahs72]

Idea

Hi, It would be nice to be able to make custom names for the watch folders. Something like "watch2 [Movies]" where your logic would ignore anything after the first space or between braces or parentheses. Not high priority, but might be useful for morons like me. This is a great project, thanks!

[jlesage]

Sorry, not sure I see where these names would be set. Are you talking about the name of the folder itself ?

[micahs72]

Hello, yes, the folder name itself. It would be useful when having many watch folders. (I realize I can achieve it with symlinks but this seems cleaner and more useful...) Thx!

[micahs72]

So this is kind of what I had in mind. I ended up doing this with symlinks. Maybe others would have a use for this.

I put the a short description, profile name and icq in the symlink name also. Normally, it would probably not be a problem if you only use one or two watch dirs, but less confusing with many...

At the root of a storage dir, I set up an 'input--handbrake' subdir with these symlinks:

watch1 [Low 720] [H.265-10bit QSV Low 720p Slow ICQ26]
watch2 [Med 720] [H.265-10bit QSV Med 720p Slow ICQ20]
watch3 [High 720] [H.265-10bit QSV High 720p Slow ICQ16]
watch4 [Low 1080] [H.265-10bit QSV Low 1080p Slow ICQ25]
watch5 [Med 1080] [H.265-10bit QSV Med 1080p Slow ICQ20]
watch6 [High 1080] [H.265-10bit QSV High 1080p Slow ICQ16]

This makes it easier to remember and access -- the target dirs are buried in some sub-subdirs and out of the way. (I use a filebrowser instance to move stuff into the watch folders, but will also use an smb share to move them from a windows pc; this would help with both.) I also made symlinks for several output dirs in the storage root, so useful for more than just the watch folders.

Probably symlinks should be the recommended method to achieve this instead of custom names, lol...
Anyway, thank you!