Blocking out sub-folders? (1 Viewer)

[burdell1]

Is there a way to block out subfolders from showing up? In my My Music folder, I have a Itunes sub-folder that has a lot of duplicates of my music, but I don't want to have that be 'found' on Media Portal.

 

[NLS]

good idea

 

[Marcusb]

I guess you could create a new administrative user and run MP under that login. Then modify the windows access so the user you created isn't able to see it.

It's a lot of messing around though,..

 

[Efros]

If you make the folder hidden that will definitely hide it from MP, what effect this will have on itunes I don't know, but I seem to recall that itunes uses hidden folders to hide the ipod from windows, so perhaps itunes will see the folder.

 

[Marcusb]

even if iTunes has issues, you should be able to run the iTunes service as a different user that has view rights to that folder. start/run/services.mcs and then edit the "run as" properties for the iTunes service. Not sure about this though, as I hate iTunes...
Of course you could also just move one of the folders to somewhere different...

 

[gxtracker]

I have a little batch file that I can run to hide my music on my machine, and unhide my GF's music. I simply hide the folder in windows, and MP will not display it anymore.

Of course, just because a folder is hidden doesnt mean its NOT accessable. just try hiding a folder and then typing in its location in windows explorer - you will still see the contents of that folder. So any files you hide from browsing are still accessable by the OS and any programs that need it.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Why not move the itunes folder out of my music and alter its path in options. DOH :roll: