Postprocessing fodler

[Stonedestroyer]

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Is it possible to have a postprocessing folder where everything gets merged and then transferred, I am using rclone mount to mount a cloud drive and doing all the merging there messes up the drive.

[yan12125]

You can download things to a temporary folder and move the final result via --exec

[Stonedestroyer]

I've tried exec but I can not get it to work, it seems to parse my stuff differently and also I don't see a way to get it to retain the same folder layout and not just move it to a static folder?

[yan12125]

I see. Apparently using a temporary folder for intermediate files is a simpler option. See #10993