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title: Ten years of loose files, organised overnight
summary: Index a whole drive, then let it group the results into events by date and place, name them and write them up.
lede: Index the drive, then let it name the events it finds
outcome: organise
tools: list_folders, index_folder, cluster_events, name_events, summarize_events, list_events, job_wait
order: 8
---

> Check first that GroundSlate can read /Volumes/Archive/Video, then index it, group the results into events by when and where they were shot, name every event that has not got a name, and write a short summary for each. Give me the list of events grouped by year when it is done.

- For specialist footage, spend two minutes first telling it what it is looking at. Everything indexed afterwards is better for it.
- Ask first what it can read. A gap is almost always a folder that was never granted, and the agent cannot grant one itself.