AppleTV automatically adds USB drive source

[c99koder]

It seems like the new version of Boxee (or the Launcher, I've updated both) is symblinking my USB drive to ~/Movies/(volume name) whenever I launch Boxee. Is there any way to prevent this? I have folders on the USB drive that I do not want indexed by Boxee, and have already set up a source for the only folder on that drive I want Boxee to index (I'm sharing the whole drive out via AFP, it has plenty of non-boxee stuff on it that I don't want appearing in the media browser).

[particleman]

I have the exact question! Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[tomandrews]

same.

And I think this may be the cause of the 'never ending indexing'.

It's been a week and it still won't stop indexing.

I'll repeat my question here... do you think SMB sharing is better than USB sharing? I'd have thought for streaming sake USB would be better, but boxee just doesn't seem happy. XBMC on the other hand is smoking with USB.

[marcel]

try updating the launcher again..

[JPDeckers]

I have the exact question! Anyone have any thoughts on this?

I think this is caused by the automounting, not specifically Boxee. Have you used nitoTV to enable USB support ?

From the nitoTV overview:

What's New in 0.2.5b3
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There is one big difference (other than bug fixes) in this release. USB automounting/linking. As I'm sure many have noticed, if a USB hard drive or DVD drive is hooked up while booting the ATV they will not be automatically mounted, this has been rectified. Any device hooked up at startup with be mounted and linked into ~/Movies.

[particleman]

Under Boxee’s local sources, I removed the ATV’s video folder. All my media is on my USB drive so there was no need to index the internal “video” folder. On my USB drive, I have a folder titled “media” – bet you can guess what is in there. I just added that specific folder to Boxee as a local sources (i.e. source = /Volumes/USB_Drive_Name/Media). That did the trick. My USB drive is no longer indexed in total. Instead only the media folder is indexed. Of course, this might not work out so well if one also stored video in the “video” folder (ie /Users/frontrow/videos) on the atv.

Hope this is of some help… If someone has a better method, please let me know.

Cheers.

***Update*** Here is a better answer:
1. If you've installed Nito, there should be a symlink to your external drive in /Users/frontrow/Movies. Delete this file (this is a link to the entire external drive).
2. Create a new symlink to the folder(s) that you want to appear in both Boxee and Nito. For example, if you had a folder on your drive called "media" in which all of your media was stored, you would make place a symlink to that folder in frontrow's movies folder. In terminal, SSH in, then:

ln -s /Volumes/<USB NAME>/Media /Users/frontrow/Movies/<symlink name>
[note: the first two letters are "LN" just lowercase].

This creates an alias in your the movies folder which points to the specified folder on the external drive.

Hope this helps.

[godzukin]

hi,
would it hold true for a netword drive like the Time Capsule? and if you don't know how to use the terminal, can it be acomplish through cyberduck? how does one create a symlink if not using terminal?