Modify locations for default shares

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  Not sure if this will give you what you want. If you want to modify the location for default shares to include a direct link to those sub folders then you would have to add them as share and not sub folders, then you can point to them directly. Open the Windows Home Server Console, choose Shared Folders along the top, chhose Add follow the directions.
  
   Or as you mentioned  with PP3, the Music, Photos, Videos shares get added automatically, although you can still make changes. You can double click on Computer, in the left pane, double click on Videos under Libraries, in the right pane at the top it will say Include x locations. Click on that, a windows will pop and you can add the location of the sub folders here. Repeat for the other shares.

  • Edited by Dieharder Monday, July 20, 2009 2:34 PM spelling

  Monday, July 20, 2009 2:30 PM
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  If I understand correctly, you've created e.g. a MyVideo folder in your D:\Shares\Videos folder, and want to change the server share to point to MyVideo?

  
  

  I'm sorry, but changing the locations the default shares point to is unsupported. It's also pretty risky; Microsoft could (obviously) change functionality behind the scenes in a way that results in WHS depending in some way on the shares not being changed. In that case, the best you could hope for is that you would be able to recreate the default shares without too much difficulty. The likely outcome would be a server reinstallation to fix broken shares, and the worst case would be significant data loss. 

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  Monday, July 20, 2009 9:53 PM

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  If I understand correctly, you've created e.g. a MyVideo folder in your D:\Shares\Videos folder, and want to change the server share to point to MyVideo?

  
  

  I'm sorry, but changing the locations the default shares point to is unsupported. It's also pretty risky; Microsoft could (obviously) change functionality behind the scenes in a way that results in WHS depending in some way on the shares not being changed. In that case, the best you could hope for is that you would be able to recreate the default shares without too much difficulty. The likely outcome would be a server reinstallation to fix broken shares, and the worst case would be significant data loss. 

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  Ok. I'll give a spesific example of what my problem is as I was a bit unprecise. For instance; under my Music share I've got a few folders such as Books, Div, Humor, etc and one folder called Full Albums. The Full Albums folder is sorted and all songs here labeled correctly so that artists and albums shows up correctly in Media Center. I only what what's under this one subfolder (of the Music share) to be a library on my Media Center machine in the living room. Is this possible?
  Earlier I would just add the folders manually, but that doesn't work any more as on reboot Media Center adds the default shares back to the libraries.

  Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:58 AM
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  Have you tried this?

   In Media Center under Music right click and go to “Manage Library” remove the “\\server\music”  then add  “\\server\music\FullAlbums”  dose that work?
  
  

   

  
  
  

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  • Edited by Richard A Miller Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:14 PM typo
  • Proposed as answer by Ken WarrenModerator Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:16 PM
  • Marked as answer by Jonas Svensson -FST- Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:35 PM

  Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:05 PM