[mythtv-users] Merging Storage groups (mythvideo)

[Mike Perkins]

On 17/11/11 01:31, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Greg<greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>  wrote:
>>
>>   My question is, can I somehow combine theses into one menu like I have
>> been doing, using just storage groups with out the symlink's?
>>
>> The way I have it set now is:    /mnt/video1/TV_Series/  and the other
>> dirs contents symlinked to that dir...It worked OK,but seems pretty
>> sloppy...
>>
>> My directory structure is /mnt/video1/TV_Series/
>> /mnt/video2/TV_Series/   /mnt/video4/TV_Series/
>>
>
> I believe just adding all your /mnt/video* folders to the storage group
> will just work these days - subfolders with the same name should just
> collapse into one entry on the frontend.
>
> I had my TV shows spread between a NAS and the backend for a while, and it
> seemed to be working that way.
>
Absolutely. You (the OP) don't seem to be using Storage Groups the correct way. 
Don't bother with symlinks, just add the folders to the storage groups, and myth 
will put everything into the same list.

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Mike Perkins