[tecc]

I'm running LibreElec on a Odroid 2 but I'd already seen this with OSMC on my Raspi 3: despite having "show hidden files" unchecked, the hidden folders

$RECYCLE.BIN
System Volume Information

are visible under Videos when I plug in my external USB3 drive. How come? These folders do not show when I view the HDD in Kodi on Windows.

[nickr]

I am not sure but a file or directory usually needs to have a . at the start of it's name to be hidden. Like .hidden .

[Gobberwart]

I am not sure but a file or directory usually needs to have a . at the start of it's name to be hidden. Like .hidden .

That is correct. The mentioned files may well have the hidden attribute set in Windows, but that means nothing to Linux and those files will be treated as regular files.

[doug]

If you're moving the drive back and forth between the two OSes and Windows keeps creating those folders, you should be able to hide them from Kodi in advancedsettings.xml with something like:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <video>
    <excludefromlisting>
      <regexp>System Volume Information</regexp>
      <regexp>$RECYCLE.BIN</regexp>
    </excludefromlisting>
  </video>
</advancedsettings>

[tecc]

Awesome, thanks!

[tecc]

I've completely forgotten about this but now that I have a new Android player with Kodi I've added this to my adavancedsettings.xml but both dirs still show up. Any idea why that is? Maybe I need to change the expression as to look for these specific filenames or something?