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@hugenbdd Aha I missed this setting, yes I was hitting the move now button. 2.) Move Now button Follows plug-in Filters: Yes Yes its working! any files or folders that are prefixed with a dot are ignored THANK YOU

@hugenbdd Very much appreciate your efforts on this, apologise for the slow response. I've just updated to your latest plugin (thanks for the special mention in the release notes) and have enabled your setting in the mover settings but am still seeing my folder `.doNotMove` being moved from the cache to the array. Possibly I haven't set it up right? Here is a screenshot of my settings

@hugenbddawesome thank you! I will look into this script, maybe I could built a plugin just for my use case. For the time being I would be keen to see an ignore hidden files and folders built into your plugin, how far away would those changes be from being published? Thanks again

@hugenbdd Thanks for your input! Ideally what I would like is the ability for the mover to just move folders or files with some sort of prefix on the front, using the dot might not be idea as that is hidden file. maybe a '--' (double dash) prefix? Let me explain it in user stories as a feature request to your awesome mover plugin: 1 Files/folders by default do not move from cache to array. As a video editor When I first load my project media onto an UnRaid NAS share And put into a project folder eg '20-4-4 B and R promotion' And the share has cache set to 'Yes' And I have enable/configured my Mover to only move files/folders with a '--' prefix Then my entire folder stays on the NAS 2 Files/folders only move when prefixed with '--' As a video editor When I am finished editing my project Then I edit my project folder name and add a prefix So '--20-4-4 B and R promotion' Then the next time the mover runs my project folder is moved from the cache to the array 3 Files/folders move back from array to cache if '--' prefix removed. As a video editor When a client comes back to me after I have finished a video And wants changes (typical client haha) Then I remove the '--' prefix off '--20-4-4 B and R promotion' -> '20-4-4 B and R promotion' Then my project folder is moved from the array back to the cache I hope that makes sense? The end result of all this means video editors can easily manage their working project and archived projects. This is actually a game changed and would give Unraid a great point of difference for video editors over TrueNAS as user do not have this level of control over the SLOG. Much appreciated

@Squid Your Mover Tuning plugin actually could be helpful, Could I use `Ignore files listed inside of a text file` to exclude a directory(s)?

@Squid thanks for you reply How is a user able to access that directory if its outside a share? what's the point of this feature then? I guess I can just modify the script myself, any pointers with what I am trying to achieve?

Context I build custom NASs for artists such as video editors and this feature is important to me as I want a solution built into their workflow where their working projects will have a '.' (dot) at their root directory so that they are not moved to the array. But when they are finished with a project they can remove the dot. Then overnight (assuming the mover is running daily) that project folder will be moved to the array 'archiving' that project. BUG User case As a video editor When I create a folder .shouldNotMove at the top level of my share myshare And this share has its cache settings configured to 'Yes' (files initially on cache then moved to array) And I click the 'move now' button under Settings -> Schedule Expected .shouldNotMove directory remains in /mnt/cache/myshare and the files within .shouldNotMove also remain Actual .shouldNotMove is moved to the array and deleted from /mnt/cache/myshare Developer details Mover script found under `/usr/local/sbin/mover` has a line code comment: # The script is set up so that hidden directories (i.e., directory names beginning with a '.' # character) at the topmost level of a pool or an array disk are not moved. This behavior # can be turned off by uncommenting the following line: # shopt -s dotglob However when I tested this it still moved the hidden directory `.shouldNotMove` at the top of my `/mnt/cache/myshare/.shouldNotMove` to the array. I also sshed into my Unraid server and tailing the log I can see it being moved. If this is no longer a feature this comment will need to be removed from the mover script and I will must modify the find operation in the script myself. --------------------------------------------------- Possibly I am mis understanding something here but I hope this all make sense. NOTE Please don't suggest having a share with cache prefer as that would require a video editor to copy manually between shares. This is what I am trying to avoid! Video editors hate moving files its a massive time sink and I think UnRaid has a great solution here where this script can do it automatically. Thanks