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June 27, 2011 at 4:30 pm #4506
johnw248

    Interesting, I have always let MC create the folder as a Recorded TV location so it has all the proper shares established–then you don’t have to do anything to have the other computers show up in Recorded TV Shared and you can open and copy shows (as long as they aren’t DRM’d) to the other computer.

    Edit:

    It looks like I might have solved the issue and it involves sharing & Home Group. I wish I knew exactly what I did to fix it, but I first removed the everyone share from the Recorded TV folder leaving just the owner. That took out the doubles on the HP but it also took out the contents on the Dell & the other Win7 boxes. Next I added Home Group to the Shares on the folder. No change. Next I put back the Everyone with read/write and still no change.

    Then I clicked on the folder and added it to my libaries in Recorded TV, interestingly it  shows at the bottom who your shares are when you do this and it listed home group and the two extender accounts (which hadn’t shown up before) as well as John & Everyone. Then I closed and opened Media Center on the Dell and waited 10 minutes and then clicked on shared in Recorded TV and the titles on the new folder were there. AND so far Media Center on the HP hasn’t doubled the entries yet.

    With luck this will survive a reboot and adding other shows to that folder–but time will tell.

    Wish I understood more about shares and home groups and getting titles to show automatically in Media Center. Adding shares to movies is pretty straight forward and I’ve had to add mustic to Media Player to get it to show in Media Center.

    John