Media PC Request

[TalkingBull]

Tom,

I have GameEx running on a PC attached to my Plasma TV and I use that primarily to play movies and TV shows that I have downloaded. My problem is this: I have over 500GB of TV shows on 2 seperate HDD's and over 750GB of movies on 3 seperate HDD's. In order to display them, I need to have my media look like this:

(These are folders)

Movies 1

Movies 2

Movies 3

TV Shows 1

TV Shows 2

Now I would rather have it look like this:

Movies

TV Shows

Since I can't place all of my files on one or two HDD's, I am somewhat stuck with spreading them out.

Is there a way to add the functionality of having several seperate folders under the video section wherein you can specify more than one folder within that to search from? What I mean is that you would have:

Movies

-C:\Movies

-D:\Movies

-E:\Movies

TV Shows

- C:\TV Shows

- D:\TV Shows

This would be great and I would be able to list all of my shows and films alphabetically.

Thanks,

TB

[Will]

I don't know about your real question, but as an alternative you might be able to link them in the filesystem. You can list one folder and then in that folder you can reference the next one and so on. Depending on how GameEx does the folder searching you might just be able to put a shortcut to the others in the main folder. If that doesn't work you can use hard links. It sounds a bit scary at first, but if no one knows the answer to your question it might be a good alternative. Check out the article below.

http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284

[Michael]

I don't know about your real question, but as an alternative you might be able to link them in the filesystem. You can list one folder and then in that folder you can reference the next one and so on. Depending on how GameEx does the folder searching you might just be able to put a shortcut to the others in the main folder. If that doesn't work you can use hard links. It sounds a bit scary at first, but if no one knows the answer to your question it might be a good alternative. Check out the article below.

http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284

you can use NTFS link to make 2 folders on seperate hdds look like one folder i dont think it will work for 3 folders though

ntfs link site

hope this is of some use

[TalkingBull]

you can use NTFS link to make 2 folders on seperate hdds look like one folder i dont think it will work for 3 folders though

ntfs link site

hope this is of some use

The easiest solution I found within Windows OS was to simply create a folder on my Desktop and have a shortcut for each folder/file in there. For example, I would have a MOVIES folder and in that I have several hundred links all to different HDD's. That works perfectly for Windows and would be fine but I really would rather use GameEx for two reasons. The first being I love the interface and really like what Tom has done with it. The second is that by using GameEx instead of a desktop to launch my files, it looks better and I can use my MediaCenter remote to play whatever I like. To do it the other way would require that I get my lazy ass off the couch, grab a mouse and click the file open! I am way too lazy to handle that!!

[Nologic]

Well dang it I have to get my link in as well.

Link Shell Extension

[TalkingBull]

Well dang it I have to get my link in as well.

Link Shell Extension

I scanned through that and it looks like it would work for what I want to do. Unfortunately, my media pc is down and I am in the process of upgrading but when I get it up and running (Hopefully by next weekend) I will give it a try and let you know how it worked.