question/feature suggestion

[Greg Perrone]

Is there a way to set more than one folder to a particular library?
If not, does it seem like a worthwhile feature to add? I would like
to be able to organize my videos according to file type in separate
folders. I would find it very useful to be able to add multiple
folders to a library possibly delimited by a comma or semicolon
similar to the way windows handles the various path variables.

[Brian Taylor]

Greg,

It's possible but not a quick fix. Parsing the input is easy (I like the comma separated idea) but teaching the code that consumes that data to expect a list of directories instead of just one is more tricky.

Do all of your format-named directories have a common parent? You could give that directory to MyMedia instead.

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[Greg Perrone]

They are actually on separate partitions.  I know some tricks that would allow me to mount those partitions under a parent folder, but the multi folder option would be much easier.

[Greg Perrone]

What I've done as a workaround is to use "mount --bind /old /new" to
include all of the folders under one parent. I am assuming that not
everyone is capable of doing this for one reason or another.

On May 30, 4:00 pm, Brian Taylor <el.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> It's possible but not a quick fix. Parsing the input is easy (I like the
> comma separated idea) but teaching the code that consumes that data to
> expect a list of directories instead of just one is more tricky.
>
> Do all of your format-named directories have a common parent? You could
> give that directory to MyMedia instead.
>

[Brian Taylor]

Good workaround.

[xwin]

On windows I use symlinks to place a directory under a root directory.
You need to use symlink not a shortcut. Works on XP and 7.

On May 31, 10:10 am, Brian Taylor <el.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good workaround.
>

[Brian Taylor]

How do you create symlinks in windows?

[Greg Perrone]

You don't, but you can add mount points to a drive using the disk management utility.

From the start menu choose run and enter diskmgmt.msc .  Right=click the partition where your videos are actually stored and select "Drive letters and paths..."  -->  "add" --> "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder" and navigate to your folder of choice. Do NOT attempt to mount more than one partition to a folder.  It should fail, but should it mysteriously succeed, it could cause major corruption of the filesystem.

[Greg Perrone]

Sorry, should have done my research better.  At least I learned something out of it.  Check this out http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ 

You could theoretically keep your video files on cloud storage, a network share, etc and "symlink" the folder to a synced location on your MyMedia server.  Way too many possibilities to list.  I'm becoming really happy I started this discussion.

[xwin]

You would use mklink command from the command line. That is what I
use. But there are also explorer extensions that can do that GUI way.

[xwin]

Windows had symlinks for a long time, probably since XP. It is not
common knowledge for some reason.

[Brian Taylor]

No kidding. I had no clue. I could have really used this at work a long time ago.

[Greg Perrone]

Microsoft is slowly catching up.  Before you know it you will be able to mount image files without third party software, and build virtual devices.  Symlinks where not previously thought of as necessary by MS. It was thought that shortcuts would be sufficient.  For the majority of users, they where correct.