Utility: Sage PropImport

[TBacker]

PropImport is a tool that I wrote for my personal use, and thought it might be handy for others. It's just a command line app that will take the contents of one properties file and import them into another. It's useful for re-setting custom properties that you've saved to a separate file.

For example, you could manually create a text file called MyCustom.properties, then copy any custom settings lines from your Sage.properties file into it for safe keeping.

At that point, all you have to do to restore those settings is use PropImport. It will replace existing lines with your saved values, and add any lines that don't exist.

The command line syntax is:

/quiet Supress completion message
/d:destination file
/s:source file

Download Sage PropImport

[TBacker]

1.0.1 Update


1.0.1 Uploaded June 14, 2009

• FIXED - Missing /S: or /D: caused an error & crash
• ADDED - A message box will pop up upon successful import. Use /Q or /QUIET to supress.
• ADDED - More informative syntax error messages to aid in seeing mistakes.

The command line syntax is:

/quiet Supress completion message
/d:destination file
/s:source file

[nyplayer]

TBacker,

I seem to be getting the completion prompt. see my batch below.


PropImport.exe /quiet /d:C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\SageClient.properties /s:S:\SageTVInstall\Sage Propimport\SageClient.properties

PropImport.exe /quiet /d:C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\Sage.properties /s:S:\SageTVInstall\Sage Propimport\Sage.properties

[TBacker]

1.0.2 Update


1.0.2 Uploaded June 14, 2009

• FIXED - Inverted /quiet toggle issue

Sorry bout that

[nyplayer]

That did it thanks.

[rmac321]

TBacker,

What are the chances you could make this do multiple files using a wildcard?

FI, several of us have just discovered we need to add a new Metadata field (MediaTitle=) to our imported TV shows. This tool would be perfect if we could do them in a batch fashion.

I created a new file called newbonesprops.properties which contains the new field:

MediaTitle=Bones

This worked great to update a single file, but it won't do multiples. If I do the following:

propimport /d:\\Server\videos\TV\Bones\Season 4\*.properties /s:newbonesprops.properties

I get the error: Unable to open destination file

[TBacker]

I think this is doable - it may be a while. I've got a full plate with work right now.

I was thinking about a GUI version of this too, but that defeats the purpose of scripting it to run in the background.

[rmac321]

Originally Posted by TBacker

I think this is doable - it may be a while. I've got a full plate with work right now.

I was thinking about a GUI version of this too, but that defeats the purpose of scripting it to run in the background.

Cool, Thanks!

Another switch that would be cool would be the ability to leave the properties in their current order and append the new field to the end, to the beginning, or even possibly to a specific line. I have no idea how hard that would be to implement. Most of the time I prefer the alphabetical listing like yours does anyway, but for my tv show properties I have gotten used to the order that EP has MediaScraper output them. I'll have to take a look at what BMT order is since it looks like we will all may be switching to that now anyway.

Another possibility would be to also integrate a switch such as /t:<filename> that would touch the associated media files at the same time that the new properties files are made so that on a rescan of imports, the changed properties files will be picked up. Again, I haven't a clue how hard this would be to implement.

Thanks again!