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Settings

Open Settings with ⌘, (a library must be open for library-specific tabs). Six tabs: Library, Video, Data Sources, Extensions, Tools, and Custom Metadata.

Skagway Settings window on the Library tab
Skagway Settings window on the Library tab

Library

  1. Exclude corrupt files from filters — they stay in the Corrupt smart library and in search.
  2. Confirm deletions — ask before moving files to the Trash.
  3. Change Library Location… / Change Thumbnail Cache Location… — move this library’s catalog or its per-library thumbnail cache.
  4. Automatically check for updates — off by default; checks do not send usage analytics.
  5. Smart Libraries — choose which smart libraries appear, and tune Recently Added / Recently Played day windows and the Top Rated star threshold.
  6. List view columns — pick the columns List view shows (Title is always on).

Video

  1. Default Filmstrip Size — rows and columns for filmstrip previews, with a Regenerate filmstrips button.
  2. Surprise Me! auto-plays selected video — jump and play, or just jump.
  3. Loop Play All — during Play All, finishing the last video starts the first again.
  4. Hover preview on Grid and List — the silent moving preview on hover.
  5. Tag blind default state / Filter drawer height — how the Inspector tags list and Quick Filter drawer remember size.
  6. Player opens at — Compact, Full screen, or Last used size.
  7. Fade resume banner after delay — whether and when the “Resumed at…” banner fades out.

Data Sources

  1. The folders Skagway scans — Add Folder…, Show in Finder, Exclude… a nested subfolder, or Remove.
  2. Adding a folder only registers it; run File → Scan for New Videos to index it.
  3. Remove does not drop already-indexed videos. Exclude… skips a nested subfolder on future scans — not the source folder itself.

Extensions

  1. Check or uncheck which file extensions count as video during scans.
  2. Add unusual extensions with the Add extension field.
  3. Reset to defaults restores the standard list.

Tools

  1. FFmpeg — required only for Fix for Built-in Player… (re-encode to MP4). Skagway auto-detects Homebrew and /usr/local installs.
  2. Installed somewhere unusual? Use Choose… to point at the ffmpeg binary directly.

Custom Metadata

  1. Define your own fields for this library: a name plus a type (String, Text, Number, Date, Date & Time, or Boolean).
  2. Edit values in the Inspector. Fields also appear in search, sort, List columns, filters, and export.
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