Suggestion: multiple folder tagging about intag HOT 12 CLOSED

Hey hey! Appreciate your interest :)

I'll have a look at it by the weekend, not getting much free time lately.

Do you think it could possible to add a regedit entry/make it so it can intake multiple folders at once

That'd oribably require a bit more than just regedit entries - iterating through selection at the very least, which is not yet implemented.

I'm trying to manage a huge clutter of these and I haven't found an option for that.

Yup, had the same thing with my "DEV" folder) Thus made a tool to help.

I tried to iterate on my selection, but logically even if I fed 70 folders to the soft, I will end up with 70 windows opened.

Yeah... The easiest way to run through multiple folders excludes use of InTag.

If you have an Idea how that'd be handy to be implemented - feedback is very welcome. For now, I see it as triple-state buttons (active-for-all, inactive, active-for-some) in case tags dont match... Or even just 2 states, with "*" on a button?..

Need to give it a thought.

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Shouldn't be too hard. If I dont stumble on something which would require a lot of time - I'll add plain "assign new" feature to a set of folders. As for states - right after that, not sure when though.

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I think, to keep the lightweight concept down, simplest use case scenario is you have multiple folders to feed to the app right: why not just make modifications in the arguments to make it accept either one, or multiple folders at once?

Then you open one window like it used to, and you can add a tag, that would apply to everything you gave to it.

I don't know if that makes sense, but basically, in other terms, rather than using load_folders(folder: string), you could do load_folders(...folder); or rather than using %1, you could use %*.

Hopefully that makes more sense (I have to admit I haven't looked closely at the sources yet so it's only a concept of what I was saying).

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Thanks for the quick response by the way, I hadn't noticed your comment and started working my day like usual. It's great to see a barebone simple project like this one answer a feature I've been craving for a long time now, and have very quick response to a suggestion I gave as a night thought not even 24 hours ago haha

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Well I somewhat care about what I do :D

And what I meant is how that'd look on the outside. From the inside - yeah, plain approach would be to allow app to accept multiple folders, which shouldn't be this hard... I think :D

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So, I've spent some time looking into it.
Good news is that it's more or less possible.
Bad news is that the way explorer handles multiple context menus - it opens apps individually, which brings the problem of syncing handling from across several processes, which might be tricky and I think might cause UI\console windows flickering to handle some tasks while opening the final window.

I'll see if I find a way to implement it so that it's clean and usable. Otherwise, I might leave this idea be :(

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I'll make it a bit cleaner\better on the weekend. For now it does somewhat work for batch of directories.

Few things to keep in mind: there's an intentional delay (200 ms) on the app startup, for now I see it as the best option.

App (read: user who launches the app) MUST have write access to a folder where it is located

All tags for the folders would be "squashed", meaning that if any one folder has a tag "test", and others dont, the tag will be applied to ALL folders in a batch.

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@CNSabata lmk if its working

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Hey, sorry I forgot to test it, got busy with work and it kind of stepped into my last weekends too.
I tried it, but selecting multiple folders have the same behavior as before, with multiple executions of intag.exe, and when I click and apply a tag only one folder gets it.
Hope that can help

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That is odd. I'll check the version I uploaded once I can

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Maybe you've forgot to update registry entry? Just double-clicking the app is enough for that.

Meanwhile, I'll polish the app and make a realease

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https://github.com/Jamminroot/intag/releases/tag/1.4.0.0

Finished version released.

Closing the issue, feel free to open a new one if smth is wrong

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