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Ability to change Home Folder #31

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It would be great if we could have the ability to select what folder on the
computer 'home' goes to.

My movies are on another drive then my the My Documents folder so as it
stands right now I have to navigate through 5 diff screens to get to my
movies.. UGH!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mike...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2009 at 10:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Good idea.  It might even be nice to have bookmarks.

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2009 at 8:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Ooooh, bookmarks?  thats fancy! :)

I was going for something that should be simple for you to code *grins*

Original comment by mike...@gmail.com on 24 Dec 2009 at 5:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I agree that this would be nice.
But creating symlinks in your home directory is a very easy workaround. (I 
guess 
shortcuts will give the same result in Windows)

Original comment by sammy.he...@gmail.com on 26 Dec 2009 at 4:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Sadly VLC Remote doesn't recognize Windows Shortcuts, I'm guessing its because 
VLC
Remote is really a linux app.

Original comment by mike...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2009 at 8:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Symlinks can be created in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Open cmd and try:

Symlink of a file:
mklink "destination" "source"

Symlink of a directory:
mklink /D "destination" "source"

This kind of symlink shows as a shortcut in Explorer but also shows in VLC.

Be careful when deleting symlinks in Windows! Some programs might not recognize 
that
it is a link and will delete the contents of the original folder! To make sure 
that
doesn't happen, rename the original folder before deleting the symlink.

Original comment by pikip...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2010 at 9:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
As of version 0.3.6, you can long-press the "Home" button to set the home 
directory to the currently 
opened directory.

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2010 at 2:43