Importing FIles without storing it in recent files

[Rodrigo Trovao]

Thanks, you’re right. Im trying to avoid storing this path there.

Id like to “slilently” importing files.

Oh, and thanks for helping! 🙂

[Walter Soyka]

Try dragging and dropping the file from Explorer or Finder into the project instead of using the Import command.

Walter Soyka
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[Rodrigo Trovao]

Thanks Walter for your answer, the problem im doing this through scripting… 🙂

[Walter Soyka]

[Rodrigo Trovao] “Thanks Walter for your answer, the problem im doing this through scripting… :)”

An important detail!

No way I can think of to do this directly… but if you really want to do this, you could locate the After Effects preferences file on disk, parse it for the “Most Recently Used (MRU) Search v2” section and “MRU Footage Path ID #” keys, then re-import then remove the files referenced there.

(You can’t use the app.settings object because it’s sandboxed to a specific section of the preferences file, and you won’t be able to re-import referenced MRU files that are no longer on disk.)

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Rodrigo Trovao]

Thanks for helping anyway! 🙂