Question on folder sharing permissions
It's probably just my luck of understanding, but I am trying to restrict a folder and all the video files in it to a single device.
What I did was select my 'video' playlist then 'folders' (created by default when I installed Mezzmo) then right-click, 'Add', 'Add Folder'.
I then navigated to my folder and in the 'Presets' selected 'Videos'. All good so far.
I then right-clicked on the new folder called 'Restricted' and selected 'Playlist sharing permissions'.
I then said deny all except the following and selected my device.
When I went to the 'allowed' device, everything was visible as expected. I then went to a 'non-allowed' device and the 'Restricted' folder itself did not show up as expected.
The problem is, I could still get to those files by other means. For example, If I went to director and selected the director of one of those files then I could access the file via that playlist so all it had done is restricted access to a single playlist (folder) but not the files in it. I could also go to 'All Video Files' and find them or 'Genre' and find them.
Am I doing something wrong?
Any way to set a default on a folder - so new files added automatically get rating ?
The instructions below are ok, but new content is added to some folders just by dropping onto a san/nas.
So then browsing folder, or running a scheduled maintain library adds them, but they have no content rating.
Any way to set the default ( set on the folder ) to be the default for new content in that folder? Or a way to auto apply a content rating based on a rule such as folder name ?
Thanks
Andy
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Paul
Thanks for explaining how you want to protect your files. We'll discuss this more here and think about a nice way to do this.
For the current version of Mezzmo (v4.1.3.0), you can accomplish what you want by creating your own special content rating(s):
- Go to the Options dialog (Content Rating page) and click the 'Edit Content Ratings' button.
- On the Edit Content Ratings dialog, click the 'Add' button.
- On the Content Rating Properties dialog, give your content rating a name (e.g. 'Protected') and set the minimum permitted age to a high number such as 99. Click OK to save your new content rating.
- Now you can assign this content rating to your personal videos. To do this for a group of files, select them all (using Ctrl +A keys to select all files in the current playlist/folder; or Ctrl or Shift key with left mouse button; or using mouse rubberbanding) and right-click on one of them and click 'Properties'. On the Properties dialog, click the small browse button on the right of the Content rating edit box and select your new content rating. Click OK on the Properties dialog to save this new content rating for all the selected files.
- Edit your device(s) to set the maximum content rating to stream to these devices.
Let us know how you go.
Good option - but applies to all content
Hi, I did find that tick box, but it applies to all content.
To give some examples, we have two SLR and a small digital camera that use wifi cards to sync to the same server - and then these photos show up for people to look at.
Same for music - added by just dropping or 'syncing' other devices and files to central folders shared by mezzmo.
So, now none of this shows up until someone ( me) vnc's onto that server and uses the mezzmo UI to classify the content ?
This really doesn't lend itself to a low maintenance automated environment.... which is why i was asking about defaults based on folders for example. - would solve this very simply.
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Paul
Hi Andy,
Set the 'Do not stream unrated files' checkbox and this will hide these yet-to-be-rated files from your kids.