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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: kukuku on May 09, 2003, 02:18:10 pm

Title: How to import mp3 files from a hidden directory?
Post by: kukuku on May 09, 2003, 02:18:10 pm

I downloaded and installed MC9 yesterday. So far it has been great. Now here's a question:

I have a CD with around 150 mp3 files in a hidden directory. I'd like to import them into the MC9 library.
But MC9 can't seem to show the hidden dir. And I can't find a setting to turn on displaying hidden dir too.
any ideas?

BTW, my windows xp explorer displays that hidden dir just all right.

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: KingSparta on May 09, 2003, 02:33:13 pm

use windows explorer, right click, properties, uncheck hide

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: kukuku on May 09, 2003, 02:46:27 pm

The hidden dir is on a CD. That's why I can't change
the attribute of the dir.

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: KingSparta on May 09, 2003, 02:52:38 pm

Copy the Hidden Dir With Windows Explorer To The Hard Drive, Unhide It Import.

Or

Copy The Hidden Dir To The Hard Drive, Un-Hide It, Then Reburn The Dir To A New CD.

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: kukuku on May 09, 2003, 03:01:54 pm

I have thought about copying the files to HDD before. But that's not a good solution for me. My HDD has limited capacity and I don't want those 600MB+ mp3 files sitting on my HDD all the time. I just want to access them and play them from the CD.
Burn it again? Hmm...CDR media are cheap. But somehow I don't like the idea of wasting an otherwise perfectly working CD. I am seeking a more elegant solution.
Is there something I can do on the MC9 side? I mean, not being able to see hidden files or dir is quite limiting...

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: JimH on May 09, 2003, 03:16:36 pm

My guess is that you've run into a limitation of MC's version of My Computer.  We never imagined this scenario.  Maybe we can fix it in the next version.

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: KingSparta on May 09, 2003, 03:40:05 pm

how about use Windows Explorer

Select All The Files And Drag Them To The Drop Target In MC9?

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: Ingo on May 09, 2003, 04:17:51 pm

how about just setting explorer to show hidden folders, right click on that one and select import in the MediaCenter sub menu?

Ingo

Title: Re: How to import mp3 files from a hidden director
Post by: kukuku on May 09, 2003, 07:55:47 pm

Importing the files thru windows explorer works. Thanks!

However, when I later want to upload those files to my ipod,
MC9 always crashes when I click on the ipod drive under
CD,DVD,&Handhelds. I was using 9.0.170. Upgraded to 9.0.172. Still crashes doing the same thing. I finally copied the files onto my HDD first, import those on the HDD, then upload to ipod. And guess what, everything is normal.

I think there is a bug in MC9 that leads to crashes when uploading files on a CD to ipod. I did the same experiment with
another CD (dir not hidden), same results.