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qdada

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It is all well and good to share your movie list with someone via the web interface; that is until they return to you with a long list of movies they want from you. In a windows system where the movies scattered across 4 drives, copying the files one by one, zigzagging from one drive to the other is tedious. Especially so with a requested list beyond 50.

There has got to be a better way?
 
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What version of Windows you using?
My media server is setup using Storage Spaces with 5 X 2TB grouped to form a single drive. Microsoft version of a Raid 5 array from what I recall when I did it.
As I understand it, drives don't have to be equal in size. I am going to be slotting in a 3TB drive soon so will see if this is true.

You can also use the search function in Explorer and search on My Computer. This will save you jumping all over the place but may take longer.

Other than that - I don't know of any other way to simplify your life. Perhaps some sort of media manager that will group all your content and provide copy/paste functionality ala Explorer?
 
I am on Windows 7, i have not setup raid because, well I would not know what I am doing ;-)
Total Commander is what I have used before but It still needed that initial hunting around the file to check each box against the desired file before copying.

It would be so much nicer if one could pick from a list and let that media manager take care of what path those files are saved and just copy to my desired destination.
 
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qDot said:
It is all well and good to share your movie list with someone via the web interface; that is until they return to you with a long list of movies they want from you. In a windows system where the movies scattered across 4 drives, copying the files one by one, zigzagging from one drive to the other is tedious. Especially so with a requested list beyond 50.

There has got to be a better way?
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Use one big drive for your movies? How big is your collection?
 
not that big considering theiy are HiDefs but no commercially available single drive will suffice
 
qDot said:
I am on Windows 7, i have not setup raid because, well I would not know what I am doing ;-)
Total Commander is what I have used before but It still needed that initial hunting around the file to check each box against the desired file before copying.

It would be so much nicer if one could pick from a list and let that media manager take care of what path those files are saved and just copy to my desired destination.
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One way would be to use explorers search function and search for all movies (*. mkv;*. avi;*. mp4;etc...). Search against My Computer.
Then you can order by filename, and start ctrl + clicking away :)
 
Mike Smit said:
One way would be to use explorers search function and search for all movies (*. mkv;*. avi;*. mp4;etc...). Search against My Computer.
Then you can order by filename, and start ctrl + clicking away :)
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MyBB should have a +1 button, never thought of that. Sweet !
 
I have a central media box running windows 7 and xbmc. When I connect to that box's homegroup from another windows box, I am given a videos and music library to remotely view. This appears to be xbmc's library and seems to be automatic. I've never actually set this up. From there, everything is grouped together perfectly. If I click on movies/title I'm given all of my movies in that machine...
 
DJ... said:
I have a central media box running windows 7 and xbmc. When I connect to that box's homegroup from another windows box, I am given a videos and music library to remotely view. This appears to be xbmc's library and seems to be automatic. I've never actually set this up. From there, everything is grouped together perfectly. If I click on movies/title I'm given all of my movies in that machine...
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That's the XBMC DHCP server doing its thing. Quite slick.
My kids used to watch content this way until I went Plex all over.
 
Just get "Everything Search" from Voidtools
The slickest fastest file search ever made and it is free ;-)
Search by movies, music, pics and more across all your connected drives or only specific locations
You can copy, cut, rename, delete and sort in the results layout
 
XBMC has a file manager, that can copy files to and from other devices. I have never used it though. I made a suggestion at some stage at the xbmc forums for an addon, that will add a menu to the context menu, something like send to. Because i am the same boat as you.
 
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