If a user chooses to add a folder for scanning, and then applies a file-naming template to move the files, then the most-likely intention is for the template to be appended to the path of the folder that had been added.

Currently, the application supports two behaviors for resolving the base path, to which the template is appended, for moving files. First, the base path may be given as a static, global configuration option. Second, it may be assumed as the directory currently containing a file. Both options are not preferred in most cases. Rather, the preferred approach is to restructure the full path based on how it had been originally constructed, that is, to traverse to a base directory, and then to apply the current template to that directory. Most commonly, the preferred base directory would be one chosen for scanning.

The current request is that when a file is added to the list of scanned files, it is associated with a record of the folder that was being scanned at the time the file was discovered. When a file is moved, the active template is applied, that is, appended, to that folder. This record has meaning only for files that were added through scanning a directory.

This request is related to PICARD-452.