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<blockquote data-quote="foobart" data-source="post: 43068" data-attributes="member: 18679">angusmann,The problem is not with creating junction points to folders. I was able to do that too, but the issue is whether it solves the actual problem. Basically, the issue is about getting one (flat) list of all the movies/videos to browse. The way MediaPortal seems to work is, 1) you specify the shares (folders) you have your movies/videos in. Let's say these are in .ISO files. 2) Mediaportal lists the individual shares in the &quot;My videos&quot; (movies view). You can go to the individial shares(folders) and see the movies in each of the shares. 3) It DOES NOT seem to traverse down sub-folders and gather up the movie titles.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nor does it like/traverse soft links (shortcuts). So, If you have c:\movies , d:\movies etc., making a junction point(an additional folder) and creating a subfolder (d_movies)&nbsp; inside say c:\movies doesn't solve the problem because it will just show up as a folder, and one will have to go into it to see the titles in d_movies, which is worse since d:\movies is already available at the top level in My Videos. What we seem to be looking for is either for MediaPortal to be able to read and list soft links , ability to create hard links across drives, or to be able to create a virtual directory which contains CONTENTS of several other directories.Am I missing something ?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="foobart, post: 43068, member: 18679"] angusmann, The problem is not with creating junction points to folders. I was able to do that too, but the issue is whether it solves the actual problem. Basically, the issue is about getting one (flat) list of all the movies/videos to browse. The way MediaPortal seems to work is, 1) you specify the shares (folders) you have your movies/videos in. Let's say these are in .ISO files. 2) Mediaportal lists the individual shares in the "My videos" (movies view). You can go to the individial shares(folders) and see the movies in each of the shares. 3) It DOES NOT seem to traverse down sub-folders and gather up the movie titles. Nor does it like/traverse soft links (shortcuts). So, If you have c:\movies , d:\movies etc., making a junction point(an additional folder) and creating a subfolder (d_movies) inside say c:\movies doesn't solve the problem because it will just show up as a folder, and one will have to go into it to see the titles in d_movies, which is worse since d:\movies is already available at the top level in My Videos. What we seem to be looking for is either for MediaPortal to be able to read and list soft links , ability to create hard links across drives, or to be able to create a virtual directory which contains CONTENTS of several other directories. Am I missing something ? [/QUOTE]

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