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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buffalome902" data-source="post: 246365" data-attributes="member: 68001">I promissed to get back and so I will. I have found that it is indeed the mixture of type MOVIE.avi..... and VOB type which create unpredictable results in the thumb creations. I have effectively corrected by the following....Example...I have a folder called "Comedy" within it are xxx.Avi files and sveral folders which contain VOB movue data. The secret is to load te database 2 times. first with only the .avi files then move the VOB folders into it and re scan....this seems to be a solution and or work around. Additionally I did find that by fiddleling around with the "thumbs" folder you c an effectiveley correct this as well.I do now face another dillema. I have outgrown my 750 gig external hard drive which contains my videos. It was organizded such that D:\Movies\Comedy, D:\Movies\Drama, etc..... This design provided a very effective thimnail view while using Portal when I viewed as "source". .....Now I add a second Hard drive....say G: I create GL\Movies\Comedy... and I start5 to seperate/divide my movies amongst the 2 hard drives. I therefore have a G:\Movies and a D:\Movies. I add them both into the portal and view as Movies "source" I get displayed 3 entities as follows,,,e: (which is my DVD drive), D:\Movies and F:\Movies , naturally bothe the F and D default to a default Folder Ico "unfortunatley, and I would like to fihure out a way to chnge this so i can add a different thumb to each".I didn't like this I de4a of haveing to break up the movie database into D and F. I attempted to use NTFS by making a virtual folder but that failed to resolve the iussue. I then cleared my database and added in folders seperatle such as D:\Movies\Drama, D:\Movies\SciFI, G:\Movies\Comedy.....BUT what i ended up with when i viewed via portal in the ahre view was a thast all the folders defaulted to their Default icon and would not use a Folder.jpg.......I tested further and found that "TOP Level" SHare views do not diaply folder.jpg's under any circumstances BUT all subsequent levels down do follow the protocol....... I then searched on the web to find any techniques to create a SINGLE LARGE Virtual DRIVE so that the physical seperation of movies would be transparent to Portal......I have yet to find a solution..... I found solutions such as creation a Virtual Drive , but none which allowed more than one physical drive to be encapsulated in the virtual drive. I am running XP and I heare that Vista can do this? i will look a bit further, into the Vista solution. I can envision tyhis bercoming a more fequent propblem as media databases increase in size and out grow sing hard drive capacities...... Does any one have any thoujghts, ideas, work arounds, programs .......?\\I realize this is a lengthy description, but i know of no other way to describe it.ThamxTerence buffalome902</blockquote>

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