I tried the “Limit to items” option when optimizing a season of a talk show with tons of episodes, thinking it would start with the most recently added files. Buut no. It went for the oldest files.
Wouldn’t it make more sense the other way around?
Try this:
define a ‘custom filter’ first,
filter for ‘show title’
set the view mode to ‘Episodes’
set the sorting order to ‘By Air Date’, descending
set the limit to n items
then apply the optimization (under the ellipsis, marked with the red arrow)
Thank you for the workaround suggestion! But will this automatically optimize the next episode?
I am optimistic, (but I might be wrong.)
Please do report back once you have a new episode of that show.
Holy crap it works! I set it to 5 items and I think it even deleted the oldest one when the new one came in - I mean if I’m counting to 5 properly:)
The only minor issue is the show is listed as “TV” in the Optimized Versions list, but the poster thumbnail is correct, and I shouldn’t have to do this for too many shows, so it’s not a big deal.
But I still think this should be the default behavior for the “Limit to X items” option. Otherwise I don’t know what I would use it for.
Thanks Otto! That was some real ninja $hit.
@G3H8B0R2 said:
The only minor issue is the show is listed as “TV” in the Optimized Versions list, but the poster thumbnail is correct, and I shouldn’t have to do this for too many shows, so it’s not a big deal.
You can give the optimizing job a proper description when you click on Optimize.
There is a ‘title’ input field.
btw, you can employ the same approach to Sync jobs.
