Is there any way to get the player to ignore folders on a drive?

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My sibling uses his external drive for media playback and backup of personal files.  Is there any way to stop the WD player from scanning everything on the drive?

2

If the folders are preceded with a “.” the WDTV will ignore them.

3

and to create a *.* folder using Windows …

  1. at a dos prompt (run > cmd) type:  C:> mkdir .myhiddenfolder

 

or another way…

 

  1. open Notepad create new text document and then change the file extension to .bat

then right click ‘edit’ then type: mkdir .myhiddenfolder    save changes, then double click it to create the folder.

 

 

 

 

4

Thanks guys.  Wouldn’t this also make it hidden in Windows as well though?

5

Nope; Windows uses NTFS attributes to hide files.

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Ok awesome thanks!