Import Folders - Deleted files not removed?

[denwayz 0]

Having imported a folder with subfolders, keeping the source, if I then delete a file from the source, and sync, it seems that Evernote does *not* remove the deleted files from Notes. Is this a bug?

[gazumped 10,328]

Hi.  No bug.  Import Folders do exactly that - they import files (and sub-folders) into Evernote.  There's no intention to link the original files with the note.  Once they're in Evernote,  edit or delete them there.  There's no need to keep the other files unless you need a separate backup,  and you should keep that somewhere else - not in the Import Folder.  IMHO that's best left empty until you add more files to import - and then delete.

[denwayz 0]

Hi.  No bug.  Import Folders do exactly that - they import files (and sub-folders) into Evernote.  There's no intention to link the original files with the note.  Once they're in Evernote,  edit or delete them there.  There's no need to keep the other files unless you need a separate backup,  and you should keep that somewhere else - not in the Import Folder.  IMHO that's best left empty until you add more files to import - and then delete.

 

Fair enough. I guess I am looking for a "synchronize folders" option in which Evernote and local folders match to each other based on the latest versions. I lost internet at my location for some days, and that created all kinds of problems (as you can imagine). 

[denwayz 0]

While on the topic of enhancement requests, the fact that Evernote takes all the notes from mutliple subfolders and dumps them into one flat file isn't wonderful. I appreciate that supporting directory structure is a significant problem, but having to fake it by creating multiple notebook stacks is... 'not good'

[jefito 5,586]

While on the topic of enhancement requests, the fact that Evernote takes all the notes from mutliple subfolders and dumps them into one flat file isn't wonderful. I appreciate that supporting directory structure is a significant problem, but having to fake it by creating multiple notebook stacks is... 'not good'

That's a user option, configurable when you set up the import folder, To be specific/pedantic, it doesn't dump files from subfolders into a flat file; it dumps them into a single notebook, as single notes. There is no nesting of notebooks in Evernote, so there's no real sensible way to express the same sort of nesting structure (stacks cannot contain notes); moreover, I'm pretty sure that the Evernote intent is not to create notebooks automatically based on arbitrary input (limit on # of notebooks is 250, currently). So you get the behavior as designed: the ability to pull in a number of files from a folder and its immediate children, and dump it into a single notebook. You don't need to enable the option; set up separate import folders with separate notebook targets. Or use the provided ENSCRIPT command-line program to emulate the behavior that you want.

[CalS 5,103]

Fair enough. I guess I am looking for a "synchronize folders" option in which Evernote and local folders match to each other based on the latest versions. I lost internet at my location for some days, and that created all kinds of problems (as you can imagine). 

 

Out of interest why do you want to have the folder/file duplicated in EN?  If you aren't searching the content in EN, Dropbox or the like might be a better solution.  If you are searching the content in EN, then why the second copy in the folder structure.  Just wondering about the use case.