Big Collections

Dealing with lots of folders

If you have a large, organised collection — for example, folders for home movies or music, grouped inside folders for genre or date — you might want to add icons to the folders holding the actual movies or music, but not add icons to the folders for genre or date.

Initial Set
An Organised Collection

If you have very few folders, you could simply drag the ones you want to the folder list by hand. Alternatively, click on the Submenu Popup Button button below the list and select "Add Sub-Folders" in the menu that pops up.

Add Sub-folders Too Menu
"Add Sub-Folders Too" Menu Item

Now, any folder you add to the list will have its contents scanned for other folders within. This scan is limitless — Add Folder Icons will keep going until it has found every single "sub-folder". For very big collections, this can take a while! A progress bar is shown during scanning and you can cancel the process with the "Stop" button; any folders added so far are kept, but no others are added.

Adding Subfolders
Adding Sub-Folders

After the sub-folders are added, Add Folder Icons automatically selects just the folders you dragged on, but not any sub-folders it found within. So, were you to drag some example genre-based folders to the list:

Select And Drag

...then everything inside those would be added underneath:

After Addition

...and afterwards can just click on the Removal Button button to remove the genre folders, neatly leaving just the collection you actually want to process.

Unwanted Items Removed

Now you can choose styles and add some icons.

08   Final Set

Working

Covers After 1
Covers After 2
Covers After 3
Covers After 4
Final Results