Loading assets from the parent folder address without label

Hello,
I'm trying to implement addressables in a project and I feel like I'm missing something. I currently check if an asset exist with

Addressables.LoadResourceLocationsAsync(keys, mergeMode, type)

In the addressables groups window, I can assign a label to the folder, which then assigns the same label to every child object. However, if I want to use the addressables name directly instead of a label, it seems I can't just assign a key to the folder and load that key. In this case, no asset gets loaded.

In the addressables window, the child files of the folder get a name looking like "folderKeyChildFileName", and I would then, I suppose, need to give every file name I want to load (which I don't, I want to be able to simply load the whole folder, giving its addressable name and assets types).

Is there any way I can achieve this, or this is the exact reason for which labels exist and I have to create a label for each type group of file I want to load at once ?

 

Hello,

I don't have any need to want to do it this way, but when implementing the system, it felt weird to me. Why can I load one specific asset by its addressable name, but not the whole folder by the same mean ? It didn't feel intuitive. Doing this through labels means I can give the folder a custom addressable key, which may help for readability, but that I can't use in practice.

However, doing it using labels works fine, I just have to create a label for each folder which is one more step that would not be required if I could load the folder by the key. This is clearly a UX problem and I'm not technically blocked. I think it's something that should be possible, but I'll stick with labels as the end result is the same.

Thanks for your answer !

 

Yup I am facing the same problem here. I dont want to use labels. I've organised my assets into folders and I just want to load the whole folder by its address.

Having thousands of folders means I have to have thousands of labels which is just opening a chance of mis-labelling.