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Front Row Problems/Questions

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cb31

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Mar 13, 2005
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I've just got my first mac, a 17" iMac Core duo and am having some trouble with Front Row. For a start it keeps not starting when I press the menu button on the remote. I've tried pressing the Force quit key sequence and from the apple icon in the top left but force quit never starts. After a machine restart it is fine. Photo booth has also locked up so maybe it is a more generic problem.

What I really want to know is how to make movies show up in front row. It says to put movies in the users movie folder but all mine are on a network drive hanging off a pc server. How can I make front row look for movies in different locations on my hard drives? I was thinking of unix soft links but am not sure if they exist in osx or would work. I don't want to store 2 copies of every movie as I don't have the disk space.

Any help or hints would be most appreciated. Thanks
 
I too have had the "non starting" problem but no one seems to know what's wrong.

What seems to happen is that after a fresh boot it works fine, every time I press the menu button... but after it goes to sleep and gets woken back up I am no longer able to bring up front row, from either the remote or the keyboard shortcut (apple-escape). If I reboot it works fine again... it's wierd.
 
cb31 said:
I was thinking of unix soft links but am not sure if they exist in osx or would work.
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Unix soft links = aliases, so yes it should work. You might also be able to use QT "reference movies".

I've only experienced the "no start" with FR on my 17" iMac once, and I let my system sleep all the time. In that case my 2 year old had been pushing the buttons on the remote like a madman and I think that confused FR. Now he doesn't get to use the remote.

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Thanks for the replies. It looks like aliases may work so I'll give that a try tonight if I have time. What I will try and do is put a tv shows alias under the movies section and a movies alias under there also. I hope that front row will allow you to traverse directories beneath movies as I don't want to reorganise my server.

It is a bit worrying that I am not alone with the non-starting and there seems to be no fix. As I'm new to the apple world is it worth raising the issue with apple?
 
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