folder images

[messo]

Hi all, just got my wdtv set up and working well. the layout is almost there with a few exceptions.

I am using alaska as my theme (as recommended on these forums- thanks!) and it is nice and clean. However, I use folder view to seperate my movies and TV shows, and the image for movies folder is the first film in the folder and the tv shows is a generic icon. I have tried dropping a folder.jpg file in the folder but its not showing... what am I doing wrong?!

[TonyPh12345]

If there are any METATHUMB files in the folder, rename them to JPG.

Example:

Star Wars.metathumb  -->  Star Wars.jpg

Only then will "folder.jpg" files work.

[messo]

thanks for the reply, there arent any files of that type in the folder. I did manage to get the tv folder to work with folder.jpg, however I now cant change the image. i have cleared and rebuilt the library several times to try and fix this. does this mean there is an xml file somwhere pointing to the wrong image?

[mywd2012]

Dear Messo,

I am newbie here, and i having problem with putting jpg to movie folder, wondering is yours SMP Firmware 1.07.15?

I am glad if you could share how is work.

thanks in advance

[messo]

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mywd2012 wrote:

Dear Messo,

I am newbie here, and i having problem with putting jpg to movie folder, wondering is yours SMP Firmware 1.07.15?

I am glad if you could share how is work.

thanks in advance

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Im probably not the right person to ask, but i opened the folder on my wd elements hard drive and placed the folder.jpg in the movie folder, this method worked for the tv folder, but not the movie one at the moment.

[mywd2012]

Is your SMP version 1.07.15?

[messo]

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mywd2012 wrote:

Is your SMP version 1.07.15?

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it has the latest firware yes

[ritaben]

I have metathumb files and a folder jpg in my MOVIE folder and it works, I make sure my "folder.jpg" is the same size as the metathumb files.

[jbalsor]

all of the metathumb files in my movies folder are different sizes. what size do you make your folder.jpg to work?

I am haveing no luck getting the SMP to recognize the folder jpg if there are ANY metathumbs in the folder with it.

[RugerRedhawk]

I'm pretty confused, having the same problem. WD has been automatically grabbing everything very well, I just want to get rid of the folder image being the first file in that folder. There are tons of .metathumb files in the folder.