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jeffstutsman



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:14 pm    Post subject: Large Directories with 300+ Files Reply with quote
Is there a way to better sort folders with 300+ Files in them? All my movies are listed in iTunes, under Movies. Now I have everything broken down into Genres with correct metadata in iTunes to use with the AppleTV. Now with AppleTV its all broken up into Genres so I don't have just 1 folder with 300+ items. Is there a way to get pyTivo to sort by Genre using the metadata I already have in iTunes? Because right now if my son wants to watch Toy Story I have to scroll down so many pages and this is getting annoying. I cannot break up the movies into seperate folders because that will mess up iTunes/AppleTV. If anyone has any advice on how to do this I would really appreciate it.

I have a similar problem with TV Shows as they are all in iTunes and if I go to The Simpsons it lists them all as 1 folder (as it is in iTunes) so going to Season 6, again I have to scroll a ton.

Thanks!

Jeff
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orangeboy



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Firstly, what OS are you using?
On one of my Windows XP boxes, I use a HARDLINK to make "zero byte copies" of files in different folders. A HARDLINK is treated differently than a shortcut, and basically creates pointers in different folders (on the same drive) to the same file.
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jeffstutsman



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am on OS X
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orangeboy



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
jeffstutsman wrote:
I am on OS X


I'm not a Mac user, but I did find this: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643, if you wanted to go the "link" route. I imagine it would be a manual effort to create the links, unless you could script it somehow. Something like read the itunes metadata, and create directories and links from that.
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jeffstutsman



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the suggestions, but apparently I was running an old version of PyTivoX and with the new one I can "push" shows to TiVo and opening up large directories via the web is a lot quicker AND I can use Metadata that way. So I am just going to go that route, but thank you for the suggestion!
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