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2012-08-25, 21:55
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-01, 12:58 by jjd-uk.)
Hello. I tried XBMC with a linux system. For my video database I added somes local folders. Everythings worked fine untill I added an external HDD. This HDD has different folders with videos. I can add one specifc to the database. But XBMC also adds the whole external HDD to the database without my permission. What can I do to ensure, that only one specific folder is added to the database and not the entire HDD?
Thank you for your help!
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When you added the external drive as a new XBMC media source, did you do so at the drive level or at a folder level (within that drive)? You can use the "Edit source" option to view the currently defined path to that source.
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Hi,
you already noticed: a newbie (to this forum).
The thread is old but not outdated.
I use debian testing and xbmc frodo
My setup consists of several external HDDs containing not only multimedia data.
As stated in the start posting: Source listing lists external HHD-partitions with their volume size although they are mounted withi the main directory tree ("/"). And I cannot find a way to remove these annoying entries.
The context menu for these HDD partitions is different to manually added sources: There is no option to remove the source but only to remove the pertition saveley. If I would do this, the actively added sources would point to nowhere.
Since xbmc appears not to be designed for classical music, I cannot use database mode and will define my own directory structure. But unwanted and "unremovable" entries in the listing are (optically) destroying my structure. 1)
Hence my question: How can I remove the partition entries?
Thank you for helping and best regards from the newbie from Vienna
1) Just to make clear how my structure should look like:
xbmc-Category "music" -> classical -> beethoven -> symphonies -> Symphony #1 -> London Symphony Orchestra -> <sound data>
xbmc-Category "music" -> classical -> beethoven -> symphonies -> Symphony #1 -> Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra -> <sound data>
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Remove them from the sources.xml file in your Userdata folder, maybe backup 1st though in case of problems.
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2013-07-01, 12:54
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-01, 13:01 by jjd-uk.)
Please learn some patience, not everyone will necessarily have the knowledge to help and this being open source software no one is getting paid for being around here so you won't always get an answer quickly. Probably didn't help that you jumped onto the back of an old thread and probably would have got more attention if you'd created a new thread detailing your problem.
I've now provided what I think is the answer to your question and merged the threads.
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Sorry but I've no idea then, I use XBMC on Window and when I add an external hard drive only the source paths I've added show.
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Oh & it would probably be best to start over when generating the debug log, so nothing is listed under Files and the Sources added as if from scratch.
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Was that log taken with your already configured sources? as I don't see the actions of adding the source.
I realise it might be an absolute pain in the next to do, but if you can please start over with no sources at all, then repeat what actions you do to add the Sources. The actions XBMC takes when adding the sources may give a clue in the debug log of what's going on.