Use folder watching
Microsoft Expression Media offers advanced folder watching to monitor all folders that contain cataloged media, on either a hard disk or a local network. When new media appears in a watched folder, it can be manually or automatically imported to the catalog.
Folder watching is useful for a workflow in which:
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Images are being scanned by batch and saved to a particular folder.
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A "folder action" is automatically downloading images from other computers or from the Internet.
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Several users are contributing images to a shared network folder.
To import files that use folder watching
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Click the Organize button.
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Click the Folder Watching icon
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at the top of the Catalog Folders panel, and then select an option from the menu. -
When new images have been added to any folder, Expression Media displays a blue arrow on the folder icon. To import these new images into your catalog, choose Update Folder Now from the individual folder's shortcut menu.
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To enable automatic updating, choose Switch Auto-Update On on the shortcut menu of the individual folder that you want to be updated automatically. When new images are added to that folder or to any sub-folder, Expression Media automatically imports those images to your catalog. Expression Media adds the new images to the end of the catalog.
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Auto-update folders are colored green. To clear the auto-update feature, but maintain folder watching, select Switch Auto-Update Off.
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To turn off catalog-wide folder watching, choose Never from the catalog Folder Watching menu.
