Wish: Move and Sort Folders in Rig Manager Local Library

SASouth · December 30, 2021 at 9:01 PM

Currently there is no way to sort or move folders in the local library in Rig Manager without manually recreating the folders and moving the rigs contained within to the new folder. Once a folder has been created it is stuck in the list where it was created and can't be moved. This is very limiting.

For example I'd like to be able to create a folder a particular amp, let's say Fender amps, and be able to drag and drop all of the other folders I've created for my various Fender amps in to it to segregate them from other amp types so that when I'm looking for a particular Fender amp it will be easy to find based on the folder name I've given it.

I'd like to be able to sort the folder list alphabetically also. Is this even on the roadmap?

Wheresthedug · December 30, 2021 at 10:23 PM

Folders don’t really work well for me in RM. there are too many limitations so I don’t use them at all. InsteadI use the search field with properly tagged rigs.

In your example, I would identify all rigs that are Fender Amps. Highlight then all then click on the tag to the right for Amp Manufacturer. Now type Fender. All highlighted rigs will have amp type updated to Fender. You can do the same for other tags such as Amp Model wher you might select all Princeton or Twin etc and update the tag.

With this done you can search for all Fender amps or all Fender Twin etc without he need for folders.

SASouth · December 30, 2021 at 10:52 PM

Quote from Wheresthedug

Folders don’t really work well for me in RM. there are too many limitations so I don’t use them at all. InsteadI use the search field with properly tagged rigs.

In your example, I would identify all rigs that are Fender Amps. Highlight then all then click on the tag to the right for Amp Manufacturer. Now type Fender. All highlighted rigs will have amp type updated to Fender. You can do the same for other tags such as Amp Model wher you might select all Princeton or Twin etc and update the tag.

With this done you can search for all Fender amps or all Fender Twin etc without he need for folders.

Thanks for the suggestion but that doesn’t really work for me. When you have over 6000 rigs from just one vendor it makes it hard to find anything, even if they are tagged. The fact that you have to tag every rig manually is too big of a hassle for me and there’s always the risk you may miss one. Using folders, I can just dump the rigs from each amp in its own folder when I get them.

There is no reason that in this day and age that a simple alphabetical sort and nested folders can’t be implemented.

Ni6htWalker · December 30, 2021 at 11:04 PM

Quote from SASouth

Currently there is no way to sort or move folders in the local library in Rig Manager without manually recreating the folders and moving the rigs contained within to the new folder. Once a folder has been created it is stuck in the list where it was created and can't be moved. This is very limiting.
For example I'd like to be able to create a folder a particular amp, let's say Fender amps, and be able to drag and drop all of the other folders I've created for my various Fender amps in to it to segregate them from other amp types so that when I'm looking for a particular Fender amp it will be easy to find based on the folder name I've given it.
I'd like to be able to sort the folder list alphabetically also. Is this even on the roadmap?

you can make subfolders,something like this....

SASouth · December 30, 2021 at 11:44 PM

Quote from Ni6htWalker

you can make subfolders,something like this....

Yep, unfortunately you can’t move a folder into a sub-folder once it is created.

I stupidly didn’t check this before I created all of them and moved my rigs into them. If I want to create sub-folders like you show, I’d have to basically re-do everything from scratch. It might be slightly easier because I have the rigs segregated by model now. It still would be a more manual process than being able to move a folder into another nested folder.

Wheresthedug · December 31, 2021 at 11:16 AM

Quote from Ni6htWalker

you can make subfolders,something like this....

Quote from SASouth

Yep, unfortunately you can’t move a folder into a sub-folder once it is created.

not only can’t you move the sub folders but you can’t search them properly either (you can’t search sub folders from the parent level which makes folders totally useless for me).

I too have thousands of profiles from the same vendor and several vendors I use. For me the tagging option I way more useful, user friendly and fast than dropping stuff in folders. I previously used folders but eventually abandoned them several months ago and haven’t looked back.

If proper folder functionality was sorted out I may go back to using them but for now searches and tag is a massive improvement for me.

CrazyPhil78 · November 27, 2023 at 9:59 PM

Hello with the rig manager 3.4.51 once you've created your folders you just have to close and open the app and the folders will be sorted alphabetically .

Ni6htWalker · November 28, 2023 at 3:24 AM

if you want to be able to sort the folder list alphabetically,this want i do..

i name my folders like this

A1

A2

A3

A4

etc etc...

GLParrishmn · November 30, 2023 at 3:32 AM

Every program I've worked with has this protocol to sort files and folders, don't understand why this can't implemented within Rig Manager's code

Right-click on a free area inside the folder and hover or tap on Sort by to choose an option, such as Name, Date modified, Type, or Size ³.
Click on Sort on the command bar and select an available detail to sort by, or add or remove details to sort by ⁴.
Go to View tab and choose Sort by, then select an option and Ascending or Descending order ².
Go to View tab and select the Layout as Date to sort by date ⁵.
Go to View pane > Options > Folder Options > View > Apply to Folders to apply the same sorting option to all folders ¹.