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rarFS? Google came up with a bunch of chineese sites. Got a URL for an english site about it?

I was wondering if there might be something for ZIP file that would make windows treat the rar's like it natively does for Zips (aka ZipFolders) but you're right, even though a double click on the file shows the contents in the explorer window, the OS still knows they are files, not directories, so any application would treat them like files too. I'm not sure what would could change at an OS lever to make the rar's appear to be a directory unless you could do something like "mount" the file to a virtual "rar drive" like you do with an ISO or something.

Maybe that's it... make a virtual drive that mounts rar volume archives to a letter... MediaPortal could auto-mount the volume and then access it like any other read-only root file system...? (groos over-simplification, i know, but that's just the idea)

<blockquote data-quote="FreQi" data-source="post: 191659" data-attributes="member: 52235">rarFS?&nbsp; Google came up with a bunch of chineese sites.&nbsp; Got a URL for an english site about it?I was wondering if there might be something for ZIP file that would make windows treat the rar's like it natively does for Zips (aka ZipFolders) but you're right, even though a double click on the file shows the contents in the explorer window, the OS still knows they are files, not directories, so any application would treat them like files too.&nbsp; I'm not sure what would could change at an OS lever to make the rar's appear to be a directory unless you could do something like &quot;mount&quot; the file to a virtual &quot;rar drive&quot; like you do with an ISO or something.Maybe that's it... make a virtual drive that mounts rar volume archives to a letter... MediaPortal could auto-mount the volume and then access it like any other read-only root file system...?&nbsp; (groos over-simplification, i know, but that's just the idea)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FreQi, post: 191659, member: 52235"] rarFS? Google came up with a bunch of chineese sites. Got a URL for an english site about it? I was wondering if there might be something for ZIP file that would make windows treat the rar's like it natively does for Zips (aka ZipFolders) but you're right, even though a double click on the file shows the contents in the explorer window, the OS still knows they are files, not directories, so any application would treat them like files too. I'm not sure what would could change at an OS lever to make the rar's appear to be a directory unless you could do something like "mount" the file to a virtual "rar drive" like you do with an ISO or something. Maybe that's it... make a virtual drive that mounts rar volume archives to a letter... MediaPortal could auto-mount the volume and then access it like any other read-only root file system...? (groos over-simplification, i know, but that's just the idea) [/QUOTE]