Hi.
In MC 11.1.175, is there any way to set MC to NOT display the library information for music files that are not currently on the computer?
Thanks, Ken
Yes. I have this set up for many of my view schemes. I have a lot of video files that don't live on the main file server (but are on discs). Sometimes I want to be able to see those, and sometimes not. What I do is add a "search" to the view schemes where I don't want the external media to show.
For example, if the stuff you don't want to show is all on removable media, you can search for that.
1. Select (in the tree) the View Scheme where you want to add the filter, right-click, choose
Edit View Scheme.
2. Under
Step 4, click the little "Down Arrow". Choose
More Fields, then
Removable.
3. In the dialog that appears, set
Equal to 0 and set
Behavior to "Include". This will include any file where the field "Removable" is equal to 0 (which means non-Removable).
If you wanted to exclude a particular drive, you could choose
Volume Name as your filter, check the box for the Volume you want to exclude, and change the behavior to "Exclude" (instead of Include).
You can combine the filters as well (just add another one), and the searches can be quite complicated. By default, if you apply a filter to a Parent View Scheme, it will automatically apply to any "children" of that scheme. This is how only Audio files show up below "Audio" in the tree. If you happen to want a scheme "exempted" from the searches of it's parents, you can uncheck the "Honor parent scheme search strings" option in the
Edit View Scheme dialog.
I often find that I want the same View Scheme both with and without "Removable" media showing. What I usually do is Copy the View Scheme into itself (in the tree, drag the View Scheme's Icon away for a short distance, and then drop it onto itself. Then choose "Copy" from the pop-up that appears. This will give you a new view scheme "inside" your previous one. I then rename this to "Local Only" and add the Removable=0 search to the new "inner" view scheme. This is nice because they are co-located and use the exact same panes structure (and any "parent searches" you have applied will trickle down to the new child view scheme).