I don't like the idea of the WDTV Live SMP having "Write" (and therefore Delete) access to the shares. Who knows if my (eventual) 5yr old kid while watching some shows decided to hit delete for tons of other stuff. I've never checked out Parental Controls so for all I know it might be there but still don't don't like the tons of .wdtv and backdrop folders it puts there.

So now for my idea - How about having the option of saving all that data (XML and .WDTV Folders and images) to a USB Thumbdrive. I have a bunch of 512MB - 2GB unused thumbdrives (plus they are super cheap anyways, $5 or so). It seems the device would prefer all the video files being in 1 large folder rather than sub folders but then it creates the .insertfilenameherefolder in the same folder creating tons of clutter when viewed on other devices.

These don't show on the WDTV and i'm guessing Linux devices (Android uses .filenames too to represent hidden) but for Windows and any other devices it just makes scrolling that list messy!

If not that then at least create just 1 .WDTV folder on the root of the drive then create the subsequent .filenamefolder and backdrops into that folder.

Thank you!