I’ve recently moved my media from a USB-attached HD to a NAS and have experienced an unfortunate (for me) difference.
When I was using the USB HD, the WDTV would not list folders that were empty, or that just didn’t contain video files (they only had a folder.jpg inside). This was very handy for me since I put different TV series in their own folders, and I only would see folders for series that had shows in the folders. I delete shows after watching them, but sickbeard requires the folders to stick around in order to have a place to put new episodes. This means I’ve got lots of empty folders.
Now that my media is stored on a NAS and shared via CIFS/Samba, all folders appear in the list regardless of whether they contain anything or not. Is there anything I can do to change this?