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Folder Not Listed in Media Libraries Showing Up in 8.8.4

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:44 pm
by Barry James
Installed WMC 8.8.4 on new installation of Win 10 Pro 1903. Without adding any media libraries to WMC, my external D:\ drive shows up as a folder in Pictures & in Videos. I went to Windows Media Player and removed the D:\ drive from there. But that didn't fix the problem. Checked all WMC>Settings and didn't find anything that enabled this.

Any suggestions or should I go back to 8.8.3 or 8.8.2 or move over to v12.7? Thanks for the help....Barry James

Re: Folder Not Listed in Media Libraries Showing Up in 8.8.4

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:24 pm
by technodevotee
Did you make any headway on this?

I've been trying to find places other than 'settings/media libraries' that could cause it but haven't come up with anything.

As far as I know, in this respect, all versions of WMC would behave the same so I'm not sure installing a different version would help.

Re: Folder Not Listed in Media Libraries Showing Up in 8.8.4

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:15 am
by Barry James
No headway, but new info.

The prior computer I was using still has WMC 8.8.3 on it without the external 4TB hard drive. Removed all folders from Media Library. Then ran WMC and no folders showed up in Pictures, Videos. I then mapped the D:\ drive to the external drive on the new computer w/WMC 8.8.4. Rebooted prior computer, ran WMC 8.8.3. Again, no folders show up in Pictures, Videos.

I then moved the external drive back to the prior computer, launched WMC 8.8.3 and the D:\ folder showed up. Also one of my picture folders showed up as well as one of my video folders. When I removed the external drive and relaunched windows, the D:\ folder - as expected - didn't show up. In fact, there were no folder in either Pictures or Video. The recent picture & video folders were not present either.

I then reattached the external drive to the new computer, launched WMC 8.8.4 and of course the D:\ drive showed up (along with all my Media Library folders).

Re: Folder Not Listed in Media Libraries Showing Up in 8.8.4

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:24 am
by technodevotee
man, that's mysterious.

hope you figure it out.

Re: Folder Not Listed in Media Libraries Showing Up in 8.8.4

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:46 am
by mwpeterson
The solution I have found for this: In Device Manager the external drive shows up under Disk Drives and Portable Devices. Disable the one under Portable Devices.

Re: Folder Not Listed in Media Libraries Showing Up in 8.8.4

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:26 pm
by Barry James
YAHOO!!!!!! Disabling under Device Manager>Portable Devices worked for me!!!

S U P E R T H A N K S ! ! ! :D

"Barry James"