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Download folders

What it is for

Section titled “What it is for”

Kaveo files finished downloads into your libraries, named by your templates. A download folder is an input only: Kaveo does not scan it as a library folder, and anything still downloading stays behind.

The Download folders group in Settings: the Downloads card with Import…, the Move and By content type combos and an unticked Auto, and Add download folder… below it

How to use it

Section titled “How to use it”

Add a download folder

Section titled “Add a download folder”
  1. In Settings › Library › Folders, under Download folders, click Add download folder….
  2. On its card, choose Move or Hardlink (keep original) and where the files go — By content type, or one category if this folder always feeds the same library.
  3. Click Save — nothing on the card counts until you do.

Import what is in it

Section titled “Import what is in it”

The import window: one file under Need you and two under Ready to import, each with a still, its size, its date and where it will be filed, the Goes to bar below them, and Later and Import 2 at the foot

  1. Click Import…, then Preview if Kaveo asks where each kind goes.
  2. Each file shows where it will be filed. Answer any under Need you — see Fixing an import — then click the Import button at the foot.

Good to know

Section titled “Good to know”
  • Hardlink (keep original) keeps your torrent client seeding, but only within one drive: a file it cannot link is skipped, not copied.
  • Kaveo never overwrites a file already at the destination; a file it cannot name waits under Need you instead.
  • Later closes the window and moves nothing.
  • Tick Auto and click Save to import with no preview. A file Kaveo cannot identify stays behind, and a message offers Review…, or Don’t ask again to stop being told about it.