Watch Folder Function & Potential Issue

[doclrb]

I had been wondering if my Watch Folder had been functioning as expected and found several hundred pdf's in the folder. I had set the default to "move pdfs to attachment folder". Has anyone else experienced potential or known issues with their watch folder.

TY

doclrb

[Jon]

Did you drag them out and drop them in again (preferably not all at once)?

Jon
Sonny Software

[tristanlane]

thank you this worked perfectly!

[livin1965]

Did you drag them out and drop them in again (preferably not all at once)?

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon, this worked for me as well to move items out and then back and then they were imported.

But, that is not how it used to work. Previously imported the first time the item was added to the folder.

I have tried stop/start of watching, change of folder to watch and then changing back, restarting computer. No effect on Bookendz Watch Folder behavior.

I'm using an M1 MacBook Pro with macOS 15.4.1 and Bookends 15.1.3.

How to restore the intended Watch Folder function of having PDFs imported when they are first added to the Watch Folder?

Josh

[Jon]

That's how it has always worked. They are imported when first dragged in. The advice above applies only when there are files in the watch folder when it is first enabled -- those files will be left alone because the "added to folder" event never fires. That's what the dragging out and back in again does.

Jon
Sonny Software

[livin1965]

Jon, I have my Watch Folder as a folder on my Google Drive. In the long term whenever I saw a PDF online to that particular folder on Google Drive using a web browser, and then GD syncs with my desktop and creates a local version, that PDF is then imported into Bookendz. Works well and rarely an issue. Recently it started only working intermittently. So I will find a bunch of PDFs sitting in the Watch Folder that have not been imported by Bookendz. Then manually drag them onto the app and import them. Then a bunch of new PDFs are sync'd into the folder and they also don't get imported. Sometimes they do and other times they don't. This intermittent import behavior is new. I'm unclear why PDFs are now being imported only intermittently?

[Jon]

I don't know either. Nothing has changed in Bookends wrt the watch folder for quite some time. The behavior may be due to latency or other intermittent network issues, changes in the way Google Drive deals with the file, or something else. You can possibly test this by removing Google Drive from the workflow and creating a local watch folder (e.g. on the Desktop) and pointing Bookends to it. See if you experience the same issues using it.

Jon
Sonny Software