Hide parent folders in Media & Folders

[stefanjan2]

I'm storing recent years on m.2 SSD and older years on a Synology NAS.

Folder structure is like this:

Database
 \\SynNAS\data  *
    Photos Earlier  *
      1945
      1946
      ...
  E:   
    Photos Latest *
      2024
      2025

Ideally I would like to hide the * asterix folders so that the folder structure looks like this:

Database
  1945
  1946
    ...
  2023
  2024
 

[Mario]

All folders indexed by the database will be shown in the Media & Folders View.
You cannot hide entire levels of folders. This would make things a lot more complicated for IMatch for no good reason.

If you want an "alternative" view on your folders, just use categories, which were designed for this, among many other things.

Categories allow you to create multiple representations / organizations for your image collection, all of which which can be totally independent from the physical storage location.

You can do create the categories manually or make them dynamic using formulas like @Folder[] or @RFolder. So many possibilities with this.

[stefanjan2]

You cannot hide entire levels of folders. This would make things a lot more complicated for IMatch for no good reason.

I can see that.

If you want an "alternative" view on your folders, just use categories, which were designed for this, among many other things.

I experimented with data driven category using @FolderRegExp[] and was able to return files but could not work out how I would return a list of top level year folders which I could drill down. Is that possible?

If not possible don't worry, it was just a nice to have which I can live without.

[Mario]

The @Folder category formulas returns files, they don't produce categories. The idea is to create a category named, say, "2025" and then use @Folder[c:/images/2025] to virtually fill it with all files in one or more folders.

[jch2103]

It sounds like you may want to check contents of the Timeline tab, as long as your images contain dates. Many ways to do things in IMatch!