Using Front Row with an external HDD

JimmyEatWorms · 13 Sep 2006 at 11:58

I've got myself a Mac Mini and I absolutely love using Front Row with the little remote. Looks beautiful on a 32" HDTV.

However, what is annoying me is the fact that Front Row only seems to want to look at your Home folder on your main HDD. I would like to keep all my media on an external USB drive to keep the OS drive as uncluttered as possible but then I can't use Front Row to browse my media. Is their a way to add folders into Front Row or to move my Home folder to the secondary drive (preferably the former as doing the latter will mean that I will need the USB drive plugged in if I want to boot OSX at all).

How is everybody else managing their media for use with Front Row?

OllyM · 13 Sep 2006 at 12:03

Have you tried adding an alias (i.e. shortcut) to your media inside the relevant folder in your Home directory?

I don't know if Front Row follows them though.

JimmyEatWorms · 13 Sep 2006 at 12:07

Hmmm...never thought of that. Will have to give it a try when I get home.

OllyM · 13 Sep 2006 at 12:12

I just tried it on my machine (adding an alias to the TV Programs directory on my second HDD to the Movies folder in my Home folder) and it seems to work... so

JimmyEatWorms · 13 Sep 2006 at 12:27

Nice one. Thanks

Such an obvious solution. Don't know why I didn't think of it.

It would be nice for FR to be a little more configurable though.

MagSafe · 13 Sep 2006 at 12:45

The second generation of Front Row in Leopard is suppost to be much more configurable with a lot more options and feature ... so bring on Spring

Big-Mac-Please · 13 Sep 2006 at 13:00

Alias's deffo work as I use it with the same setup at home