Use folder watching
Microsoft Expression Media offers advanced folder watching to monitor all folders that contain cataloged media, on either a hard disk or a local network. When new media appears in a watched folder, it can be manually or automatically imported to the catalog.
Folder watching is useful for a workflow in which:
Images are being scanned by batch and saved to a particular folder.
A "folder action" is automatically downloading images from other computers or from the Internet.
Several users are contributing images to a shared network folder.
To import files that use folder watching
Click the Organize button.
Click the Folder Watching icon at the top of the Catalog Folders panel, and then select an option from the menu.
When new images have been added to any folder, Expression Media displays a blue arrow on the folder icon. To import these new images into your catalog, choose Update Folder Now from the individual folder's shortcut menu.
To enable automatic updating, choose Switch Auto-Update On on the shortcut menu of the individual folder that you want to be updated automatically. When new images are added to that folder or to any sub-folder, Expression Media automatically imports those images to your catalog. Expression Media adds the new images to the end of the catalog.
Auto-update folders are colored green. To clear the auto-update feature, but maintain folder watching, select Switch Auto-Update Off.
To turn off catalog-wide folder watching, choose Never from the catalog FolderWatching menu.