Watch folders and meta from folder structure?

Hi,
New to XMP, but I'm looking to impliment a DAM across a marketing department split into two teams - remote but on the same network.
We have c70gb of av material from the last 15 years.
1. Is it possible to "watch" a network folders for new / edited files?
2. Can metadata be collected from the existing folder structure? I.e, for the last 15 years descriptive folder names have been used in an attempt to organise things - ergo these folder names include project names etc. Is it possible to pull these folder names out, and put them into keywords in the meta?

Hi, Thanks for the reply.I have 2 shared folders set up - 1 for each user and have given permission for each user to have full access to their own personal folder.There are our family photos on the public folders and each user has placed their own files/photos/videos etc in their personal folder.User 1 is using WDMycloud on an android phone - can see their own private folder and the public folder.  All the photos are in the shared folder.  All the private documents are in User 1 folder.When using the app, User 1 can go to 'Public' and see the public photos, but:When selecting 'View by date' some of the thumbnails that are on the folder are from user 1s secure folder. When user 1 opens the folder, they can see public photos in the thumbnails.  However, some thumbnails are displaying images from the private folder and when they click on these, they open up an image in from the public folder.When selecting ' view by album, only 1 folder appears (in this case the folder created in the private folder for backing up images from camera)When selecting 'View all photos' only a specific group of photos from a folder on the public pictures opens.User 2 is using WDMyphoto (I think) on ios. User 2 is able to see thumbnails and images from user 1s private folder. I have tried several things to stop this happening - setting up each private folder as accessible by only the named user.Checking user permissions to ensure they have no access to each other's folders in both 'user' and 'shares' settings. I have restarted the WDMycloud and devices connecting to it, but am still having these problems.  I will try to rebuild the database to see if that is any use. Any further advice would be much appreciated! I am becoming increasingly frustrated with this and am thinking about just removing the private information from the drive, but having secure access to personal information was one of the reasons I purchased this in the forst place!

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