How are media files organized?

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For windows users, you can access the files on the core in Windows explorer's network neighborhood, or by choosing 'Start' 'Run' and typing \\ plus the ip of your core. You will need to login with your username and password; it's the same one you use with Pluto Admin. You will see 2 folders: 'public' and 'john', assuming your name is 'John'. Any files that you want everyone in the House to have access to go into the public folder. The folder with your name, John in this case, is your private folder where you can put files that only that only you will have access to. Often times when you choose to save media using the orbiter it will ask you if you want the media to be public or private. If you choose public the media will be saved under the public folder, and if you choose private it will be saved under the private folder with your name. Within those folders you will find some folders called: 'music' (where all ripped cd's go), 'movies' (where all ripped DVD's go), 'videos' (where videos recorded from tv or camcorders go), pictures (where your pictures go), and 'documents' (where your documents go). When you go to play some media in the orbiter by choosing the buttons music, movies, videos, pictures or documents, you will see combined together all the media from the family's public folder as well as the media from your own personal private folder.

So, for example, if you rip a CD 'Madonna' and make it public, and rip a CD 'Rolling Stones' and make it private, and your spouse rips a CD 'Fleetwood Mac' and makes it private, then when you touch music on the orbiter you will see 'Madonna' and 'Rolling Stones', and when your spouse touches music your spouse will see 'Fleetwood Mac' and 'Madonna'. Assuming your name is john and your spouse is susan, then if you browse the network share, you will find 'Madonna' in the folder public\music and you will find 'Rolling Stones' in the folder john\music. If, in pluto admin your user has 'can modify configuration' checked, then that means you are also able to browse everybody else's private folders too. So in addition to 'public' and 'john', you will also see a folder 'susan', which contains 'music' which contains 'Fleetwood Mac'. If that option is not checked for Susan, then she will only see the folder 'public' and 'susan' and will not see your private folder 'john'.

Note that even if you check that option giving yourself access to everyone's private folders, when you go to browse media on the orbiter you will still only see public files plus your own private files, just so you're not bothered with everyone else's.

To maintain the media files, including copying deleting and renaming, you can either use another PC and a network share, such as a Windows PC with Windows Explorer, or in the Pluto admin web site you can choose Media

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