Setup folders for media sharing so everything looks nice on the Xbox 360 with Windows Vista.
I know how to do this by choosing which folders to add in windows media player but I am having a problem with folders showing up where they shouldn't kinda. I'm bad at explaining so I will just show you.
On my computer the folder tree I have shared and am having problems with looks like this:
E:\Cartoons
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Movies
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 1 - Emperor Pilaf
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 2 - Tournament
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 3 - Red Ribbon Army
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 4 - General Blue
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 5 - Commander Red
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 6 - Fortuneteller Baba
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 7 - Tien Shinhan
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 8 - King Piccolo
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 9 - Piccolo Jr
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Movies
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 1 - Saiyan
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 2 - Namek and Captain Ginyu
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 3 - Frieza
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 4 - Garlic Junior, Trunks, and Android
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 5 - Imperfect Cell and Perfect Cell
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 6 - Cell Games
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 7 - Great Saiyaman and World Tournament
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 8 - Babidi and Majin Buu
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 9 - Fusion and Kid Buu
E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Specials
All these folders have at least 1 file in them and all files are in *.wmv format and work on the Xbox 360.
But when using the Xbox 360 the folder tree looks like this (in windows media player E:\Cartoons is set as a monitored folder and I have also set it to sharing):
Cartoons
Cartoons\Dragonball
Cartoons\Dragonball\Movies (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 1 - Emperor Pilaf (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 1 - Saiyan (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 2 - Namek and Captain Ginyu (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 2 - Tournament (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 3 - Frieza (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 3 - Red Ribbon Army (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 4 - Garlic Junior, Trunks, and Android (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 4 - General Blue (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 5 - Commander Red (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 5 - Imperfect Cell and Perfect Cell (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 6 - Cell Games (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 6 - Fortuneteller Baba (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 7 - Great Saiyaman and World Tournament (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 7 - Tien Shinhan (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 8 - Babidi and Majin Buu (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 8 - King Piccolo (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 9 - Fusion and Kid Buu (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Saga 9 - Piccolo Jr (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball\Specials (empty)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Movies (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 1 - Saiyan (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 2 - Namek and Captain Ginyu (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 3 - Frieza (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 4 - Garlic Junior, Trunks, and Android (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 5 - Imperfect Cell and Perfect Cell (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 6 - Cell Games (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 7 - Great Saiyaman and World Tournament (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 8 - Babidi and Majin Buu (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Saga 9 - Fusion and Kid Buu (contains the right files)
Cartoons\Dragonball Z\Specials (contains the right files)
I know that it is just the folders from E:\Cartoons\Dragonball Z showing up in Cartoons\Dragonball on the Xbox 360 but as far as I can tell it shouldn't and I don't know why. Was thinking it may be due to the names of the two folders being similar i.e. Dragonball=Dragonball Z hence why I wrote out all the folder names but I don't know. I have tried restarting both the computer and Xbox 360, deleting all videos from media player and re-adding them, removing all sharing and monitoring options from the cartoons folder and re-added them, even deleted the video bookmark data from the Xbox 360 but nothing works. The only thing I haven't tried is getting rid of the cartoons folder and just monitoring the Dragonball and Dragonball Z folders but I don't want to do this because of the way I have the folders working.
I don't know if anyone can help but I hope so. If you need any more info just let me know and I will post it.
Thanks in advance,
William.
April 10th, 2010 6:10am