External drives

Absolutely excellent piece of software, love it!
Using it with my new Samsung Led C series tv and BDC5500 Blue Ray player with Mac OSX.
I bought the TV for it's supposed wifi ability only discovered after buying, as it is not disclosed on Samsung's website, that Samsung's Mac support sucks big time, what are we still in 1990?
Anyway you're software is excellent and apparently better then the Samsung pc manager.

Only question I have is :- Is there or will there be a way to access films etc from an external Hard drive?
Other wise my internal drive is going to get very clogged with films, I was hoping to convert all my DVD'S to an external drive and then get rid of the boxes.

Thanks again

[zip]

It should work, obviously the automatic library checker will delete all your movies from the library if you disconnect the drive. But you can turn automatic library update off.

The problem is with the Mac OS X port is that the file dialog where you can select the folder which you want to be shared (the 'add local..' option) does not work like a normal OSX dialog.

You cannot easily navigate to an external drive because it is not shown in the dialog box.

There are two ways around this that I have found:

- open the "add local..." dialog and drag the external disk onto this dialog box. This will navigate to the external drive where you can select the folder you want to share

- in the dialog box, navigate to the highest directory level (named after your boot drive, normal dialog box has the computer name here) and scroll down to the "Volumes" directory. In this directory (which normally is a hidden folder!) you can find your external drives.

In short: you can get around this issue, but the interface could do with a little Human Interface Guideline makeover

[zip]

The interface is what Java on OSX offers - built in functionality. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks guys that has worked a charm.
Thanks zip for the excellent software and speedy response, and thanks to arnoud for the brilliant work around

cheers

Hello

Just found this post...

This is a dirty work around. Took me a while to find this. I'm sure its pretty obvious to some . I stupidly thought that adding an external drive would be a straight forward option to add on the console. It must be a very very very common issue perhaps asticky on the forum or 20 mins of programming on the console. ( hey even if the programming is to advanced then a written not to say Drag and drop drives ....

just my 3 pence.

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