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Disabling automatic metadata lookup

Prevent automatic searches for home videos or files from a particular folder.

You may want to keep your own metadata instead of running an automatic online search. A rule can disable automatic lookup for all videos or only for a chosen group.

  1. Open iFlicks settings and select Rules.
  2. Create a rule under On File Load.
  3. Set conditions for the files you want to affect. For example, use Original Path to identify a folder containing home videos.
  4. Add Enable Automatic Metadata Lookup and set it to No.
  5. Load a sample file and confirm that its metadata is not replaced by an automatic search.

Use the file-load stage because automatic lookup begins after those rules run. Check other active rules if the search still starts.

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