Little confused on files the root of a folder and searches

[prophesional]

I am new to manyfold and still trying to figure it out, so bear with me
If all my models are in the root of a folder called /3dprints. If I create a library with a path of /3dprints why do none of the files in the 3dprint folder detected only the subfolders under the 3dprints folder are shown. If have a file called tail.3mf under /3dprints/dog when I search for "tail" nothing shows up? There must be something I am missing here?

As a POC

• I mounted /temp-3dprints to /libraries -> models folder shows up but cant find anything via search
• I mounted /temp-3dprints to /libraries/models -> subfolders show up, but still cant search for anything
• I mounted /temp-3dprints to /libraries -> models folder shows up, hit the reorganize button, but cant find anything via search

Please help

[Floppy]

OK, that can be a bit confusing, as it makes some assumptions which may not hold true for your current setup.

Manyfold assumes that a "model" is a folder that contains indexable files, inside the library folder. So, you might have:

/library/model_one/model.stl
/library/model_two/model.stl

That would be indexed as two models, each with one file.

if you've got nesting like this:

/library/example/model.stl
/library/example/model_one/model.stl

Manyfold will create two models, one for example and one for model_one, then give you warnings and options to easily merge them into a single model if that's what you want.

Because it would mean that everything was nested inside another model, the library root isn't considered as a possible "model" folder; files in that are ignored, as Manyfold doesn't really know how to split them up logically. That's something that maybe we could improve in future, at least to add some warnings for. Silently ignoring them is not the best solution, as I'm sure you can agree. I've added a feature ticket for it to remind me: #5022.

As for filename search: in your example, you probably have a model called "dog", which will come up in search, but to match "tail", you'd need to search for filename ~ tail - filenames aren't searched by default. See the search help dialog linked from the homepage, just under the box, for more.

[prophesional]

Thank you for the quick response and excellent explanation. Keep up the good work!!

[prophesional]

Thanks again, I was able to successfully get Manyfold working with our libraries on self-hosted Kubernetes after some tweaking using lscr.io/linuxserver/manyfold:latest. Do you have a place I give back to the community? Took me a while to tweak 4Gigs of data and 1200 files without crashing the server. Hoping to save the next person some time.

[Floppy]

Fantastic, glad you got it working!

Anything you've got in the way of advice, I can try to build into the admin guide on the website - or, maybe we could even add a kubernetes install guide at https://manyfold.app/get-started/installation.html?

The code for that site is at https://github.com/manyfold3d/website if you want to do any PRs directly, or just add info here and I can add it somewhere myself!