In the Files Options tab you can control the order in which the files are shown and whether some files should be excluded. The settings in this page are for all kind of files displayed by gPhotoShow, images, video, animations, web pages.
Show Files Sequentially
If selected gPhotoShow will display images in sequential order. When selected the following options will be enabled:
Sort by full path name
If selected gPhotoShow orders the images using the full path name
Sort by file name
If selected gPhotoShow orders the images using only the file name
Sort by date /time
If selected gPhotoShow orders the images using file date/time
Newest date first
If selected gPhotoShow put first newer images. If not selected gPhotoShow put first older images
Show Files in random order
If selected gPhotoShow displays the images randomly.
Show Files in random order but grouped by folder
If enabled gPhotoShow will choose a file randomly then following files will be picked up from the same folder until they are finished
Save File list between runs
If selected gPhotoShow will save the files list between two runs, in this way when it restarts it begins from the next image instead of starting the show from the beginning. If random display is selected images will never repeat until all files have been displayed
At the end of the show rebuilds the full file list
If selected, when the file list is empty because all images have been shown, gPhotoShow reads the list from disk. In this way it can include the new files in the show and remove files no more available.
Enable background files list synchronization
If selected gPhotoShow will perform files synchronization using a background task. Background scan is effective the second time you start a slideshow. When exiting gPhotoShow saves current files list to a cache file. On next startup gPhotoShow begins to display images from the cached list in the meanwhile it scans the configured folders, when completed the list is synchronized and newly added files will be available for the slideshow. Background scan will improve start time if you have a huge image collection or images are stored on a network drive.
Files list synchronization every:
If selected gPhotoShow will perform a periodic files synchronization. In this way new files will be automatically added to the slideshow. Synchronization is always performed as a background task so it should not interfere with the slideshow unless the computer is old and under powered
Include Shortcut to files and folders
If selected gPhotoShow will look for .lnk files and if they point to a folder or supported image will add the target item to the list of files to be displayed
Include only files and folders names containing
When this option is checked gPhotoShow will use the text entered in the edit box nearby to include ONLY file and folders that matches the text. In the text pattern you can use some special characters :
* matches any sequence of characters (zero or more)
? matches any character
[SET] matches any character in the specified set
[!SET] or [^SET] matches any character not in the specified set.
A set is composed of characters or ranges; a range looks like character hyphen character (for example [0-9], [A-Z], [A-Za-z], [0123456789]). To suppress the special syntactic significance of any of `[]*?!^-\', and match the character exactly, precede it with a \ (backslash)
It's very important to remember to use \\ (double backslash) to match the backslash character used to separate folders. Multiple patterns can be divided by the character ; (semicolon)
To include a single folder use (where "Folder1" is the actual name of the subfolder you wish to include):
*\\Folder1\\*
To include MULTIPLE folders, use :
*\\Folder1\\*;*\\Folder2\\*;*\\Folder3\\*;*\\Folder4\\*
Please note that ONLY subfolders with that name will be included in the recursive search
Exclude files and folders names containing
When this option is checked gPhotoShow will use the text entered in the edit box nearby to exclude files and folders from the recursive search. In the text you can use some special characters :
* matches any sequence of characters (zero or more)
? matches any character
[SET] matches any character in the specified set
[!SET] or [^SET] matches any character not in the specified set.
A set is composed of characters or ranges; a range looks like character hyphen character (for example [ 0-9], [A-Z], [A-Za-z], [0123456789]). To suppress the special syntactic significance of any of `[]*?!^-\', and match the character exactly, precede it with a \ (backslash)
It's very important to remember to use \\ (double backslash) to match the backslash character used to separate folders. Multiple patterns can be divided by the character ; (semicolon)
To exclude a single folder use (where "Folder1" is the actual name of the subfolder you wish to exclude):
*\\Folder1\\*
To exclude MULTIPLE folders, use :
*\\Folder1\\*;*\\Folder2\\*;*\\Folder3\\*;*\\Folder4\\*
Please note that ALL subfolders with that name or containing those words will be eliminated from the recursive search
