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New Feature - Import Description
« on: 24.12.2021 14:39:24 »
Back in the day, when Bulletin Board Systems ruled the digital landscape, most file archives included a loose text file that contained the description for the file. A feature to import the description file into the short description would be a huge time saver when creating downloadable files.

There were many different description files in use like 'file_id.diz' so I imagine this would be a configurable option; recognized description file names.

Happy Holidays to you all - 2021

-kevin
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Re: New Feature - Import Description
« Reply #1 on: 25.12.2021 11:14:08 »
Hi
Thanks for the suggestion.  My first thought is that in many cases it is quite simple with cut and paste.  Could you peras iilustrate with a couple of situations
Best wishes
Colin
Colin M
Re: New Feature - Import Description
« Reply #2 on: 25.12.2021 14:22:17 »
I'm building a file archive and will operate as a mirror for a few archives. I currently have a collection of almost 400 files that I've started to add. Of course, the only option at this point is to crack open the archive and cut-n-paste. This will take weeks to complete. If I was able to at least import the description file into the short description of jDownloads, it would cut the time in half.

-k
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Re: New Feature - Import Description
« Reply #3 on: 27.12.2021 11:56:47 »
Kevin
I ave loked into this.  It would be very challenging to implement :(
and not really add for most users

Colin
Colin M