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Merge Tool - time for a dumb request

iangbusa

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Hi Arno

Here's a dumb user request to catch a typical "operator error"...

Any chance of a warning [dialog] when the input folder is empty? Sounds stupid but I was stumped for too long not understanding why the tool wasn't processing until I went back and checked the input folder I'd specified and realized it was empty!! Duh! I'd specified the wrong folder without realizing and the tool just hung there indefinitely pointing out (silently) how stupid I'd been...

Checking for files in the folder would be useful. :banghead:

Low priority but would catch yet another "ian" act of daftness. :oops: And everyone has permission to laugh at this one!

Thanks,
ian
 
Mmmm... I have my scenPROC scripts process across a bunch of files, many that are empty and scenPROC just passes over them. No issues? I am using scenPROC v1.XX however.
 
Sorry - should be more explicit (another dumb user example!) - I'm talking about the Autogen Merge Tool...
ian
 
Now I'm confused as well. Are you talking about the merge tool in scenProc or a separate tool?
 
Sorry about the confusion, guys.

As per choice of forum section, I'm talking about the Merge tools selected from tools menu in scenproc. When selecting the tool and loading folders into the dialog that opens, if I pick an empty folder [as the starter folder], it hangs and doesn't warn that it's an empty folder. Operator error for sure but it had me confused for a while :-)

This is a very minor issue (which makes taking up anyone's time even more ridiculous). I just thought a warning dialog would be nice (and warnings for the other folders other than the target folder would be icing on the cake).

Again, very much a back-burner issue and quite ignorable.

ian

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I guess the issue is that it hangs. If the folder is empty there is nothing to merge, so it should finish directly.
 
Yes, I think you must be right if it's supposed to skip and close if it can't find any files. Seems it's not doing that.
 
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