Multi-folder Processing

To open the Multi-folder processing window, select in the main window the Tools menu > Multi-folder processing.

What is multi-folder processing?

The multi-folder processing window allows you to create galleries of multiple directories. Say, your images are organized as follows:

C:\Images

C:\Images\Holiday

C:\Images\Holiday\France

C:\Images\Holiday\Mexico

C:\Images\Family

C:\Images\Family\John

C:\Images\Family\Ann

Arles allows you to select the root folder C:\Images and create image galleries for each folder.

Subcategories

Arles will create links to subcategories (subfolders with images) if you switch on the Add subcategories option on the main window File Locations tab.

To process multiple folders

Step 1

Select the Root folder. This is the folder in which all your images and subfolders with images are located.

Step 2

Set the target folder type:

Same as source folder

Arles will put all generated files in the same folder as the images. With this setting your original images will get mixed with files generated by Arles. This can easily become a bit messy, which is the reason why it is not recommended.

Subfolder

All generated files will be put in a subfolder of the source folder. For example, if you specified "HTML" as subfolder and your images are in C:\Images, the created files will be put in C:\Images\HTML.

Other

All gallery files will be put in the defined target folder. The target folder will have the same directory structure as the root source folder. To keep the generated files separated from the original images, it is recommended to specify a target folder outside the root folder.

Step 3

Click the Find folders button to search for folders with images. The treeview will now also show the target folder for each source folder.

Step 4

Select the checkboxes for the folders you want to be processed.

Step 5

Click the All, Thumbnails, Images or HTML button to start the processing. It works the same as in the main window.

The grid shows the found source folders the number of image in each folder and the destination folders.

To view the results

Select a folder in the grid and click the Show button to show the results.

Folder Options

You can select a Default image or Custom style for each folder on the Folder info panel in the Arles Image Explorer.

Tip

Action commands in the popup menu will only process the selected folders. So, if you want to recreate HTML for only one folder, right click it and select Create HTML from the popup menu.