2009-05-21, 05:46
Hi folks,
Here's the situation-- all my home movies are backed up to an external hard drive using Time Machine on my Mac.
I'd like to be able to connect my Time Machine drive to the Apple TV and watch the videos using XBMC. The file format is fine, but Time Machine is very clever and uses hard links to directories to perform some of its magic:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/...tml&page=3
However, when browsing through the directories in the XBMC file manager, these hard links show up as small files, and I cannot navigate into my Movies folder.
Any ideas? Is this because Apple TV is based on 10.4 and directory hard links are only supported in 10.5 (Leopard)? Is there some other way to represent the directory so I can see the files inside?
Thanks,
Matt
Here's the situation-- all my home movies are backed up to an external hard drive using Time Machine on my Mac.
I'd like to be able to connect my Time Machine drive to the Apple TV and watch the videos using XBMC. The file format is fine, but Time Machine is very clever and uses hard links to directories to perform some of its magic:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/...tml&page=3
However, when browsing through the directories in the XBMC file manager, these hard links show up as small files, and I cannot navigate into my Movies folder.
Any ideas? Is this because Apple TV is based on 10.4 and directory hard links are only supported in 10.5 (Leopard)? Is there some other way to represent the directory so I can see the files inside?
Thanks,
Matt