Limiting Filetypes in Foldershare

September 20, 2007 2:10 PM

Any one know if you can limit MS's Foldershare app to only sync certain filetypes (say .mp3 only). I am trying to sync my music collection between 2 PC's but I've hit the 10000 file limit. These folders include the .jpg album covers that media player downloads when updating an album. I would rather sync just the .mp3 files and have each PC download the album art so I can stay under the 10000 file limit. Thanks.
posted by schleppo to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

I've wanted to do something similar with foldershare and couldn't find a way to do it.
posted by Good Brain at 4:58 PM on September 20, 2007

I think the limit is 10,000 per library, with up to 10 libraries. If you can divide your music collection into 2 folders (or more) you can create a library for each folder, and be okay 'till you collection hits 100,000 files.
posted by ManInSuit at 7:58 PM on September 20, 2007

Yes, you can have up to 10 libraries with 10,000 files each. I thought about the possibility of restructuring my folders. The problem is I let media player organize my music for me and right now it puts it into folders by artist. If I change to using genre instead I could decrease the main folder count but it will still be over 10.

I guess I'll just have to restructure into a few folders some other way (music1, music2, etc.) and share them all separately. Bah.
posted by schleppo at 5:47 AM on September 21, 2007