Move sources to other folder/drive (pictures)

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gkin

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I have a scene collection which uses a lot of sources (pictures, movies etc.).

All those files are in the same folder on my D-drive on my desktop computer.
I want to do several things:
A Move the folder to another location on the same drive
B Give the folder another name
C Export the scene collection and import it to my laptop. This laptop has no access to the desktop computer, so the sources will have to be local on my C-drive on my laptop.

In all the situations as described above the drive/folder of my sources is changed.

I expected an dedicated folder to store talle the sources, and that when I move something I could change a setting, but could not find it.

My question is: Is there a way to change the path for all my sources in one action? Or do I have to load all the sources one by one from the new location?

I am working with OBS for two weeks now, so i can imagine that i missed an obvious solution.

Thanks for your help, Gilbert
 
FerretBomb

FerretBomb

Active Member
Unfortunately you will have to re-create them all one-by-one. OBS stores all sources as absolute paths, and does not 'collect' them to avoid wasting hard drive space by duplication.

It's one reason that I keep all of my own assets in a directory structure under C:\Ferretbomb\; guarantees easy and painless backup and portability between systems.
 
koala

koala

Active Member
gkin said:
My question is: Is there a way to change the path for all my sources in one action?
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You can export your scene collection to a file: Scene Collection->Export. The export is a ASCII text file. Load the export into a text editor that has the function of search and replace text. Replace all occurrences of your old path with the new path. Then save, and in OBS import the file with Scene Collection->Import.
Be careful with not breaking the format of the text file during replace. Keep the original export file as backup, so if it doesn't work out, you can always import it unchanged.
 
falti

falti

Member
I have created a Windows tool to analyze and migrate OBS’s JSON files (OBS_FVAM.exe) that allows to open a scene collection (OBS's JSON file) and verify that all files really exist. READ ONLY!

On top of that you can migrate to a new folder:
Assign a new folder of your chosing for audio and video and OBS_FVAM will copy all media files and create a new scene collection with updated pathes. You can do a full migration or select files individually (like me: I have a huge video repository that I use shared, but I want the other scene images in separate directories...

Freeware - more description and download here: http://faltinek.de/freestuff/obs/OBSVERIFY.html
 
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NumberOneAB

New Member
falti said:
I have created a Windows tool to analyze and migrate OBS’s JSON files (OBS_FVAM.exe) that allows to open a scene collection (OBS's JSON file) and verify that all files really exist. READ ONLY!

On top of that you can migrate to a new folder:
Assign a new folder of your chosing for audio and video and OBS_FVAM will copy all media files and create a new scene collection with updated pathes. You can do a full migration or select files individually (like me: I have a huge video repository that I use shared, but I want the other scene images in separate directories...

Freeware - more description and download here: http://faltinek.de/freestuff/obs/OBSVERIFY.html
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This was insanely helpful. This is about the 3rd time I am migrating my entire OBS setup in 2 years, and thanks to your tool the set-up has gone from taking a whole day to an hour once I understood how to use it. Cheers!
 
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shariqmushir

New Member
falti said:
I have created a Windows tool to analyze and migrate OBS’s JSON files (OBS_FVAM.exe) that allows to open a scene collection (OBS's JSON file) and verify that all files really exist. READ ONLY!

On top of that you can migrate to a new folder:
Assign a new folder of your chosing for audio and video and OBS_FVAM will copy all media files and create a new scene collection with updated pathes. You can do a full migration or select files individually (like me: I have a huge video repository that I use shared, but I want the other scene images in separate directories...

Freeware - more description and download here: http://faltinek.de/freestuff/obs/OBSVERIFY.html
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This is an amazing tool. Thank you for developing and sharing it. It worked like a charm. Just a couple of little problems I faced with it. The JSON file failed to copy with the new path, and the media files I had used as STINGERS were not read or copied. I used 4 separate STINGER videos.
 
falti

falti

Member
shariqmushir said:
This is an amazing tool. Thank you for developing and sharing it. It worked like a charm. Just a couple of little problems I faced with it. The JSON file failed to copy with the new path, and the media files I had used as STINGERS were not read or copied. I used 4 separate STINGER videos.
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@shariqmushir

Version 1.9 now supports STINGERS - please let me know if this works for you now. It does in my test setup with stinger transitions.
 
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