How to organize your files, And media share can store – HP Media Vault User Manual

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How to organize your files

The HP Media Vault comes pre-configured with three Shared Folders: FileShare, MediaShare, and Backup.

These folders are pre-named to help you get started saving and organizing your files for quick and easy access.

Additionally, the names of these top-level folders are useful because the backup application that comes with the

media vault and streaming media feature rely on the specific folder names.

You should consider creating other folders and saving them in the top-level folders: FileShare, MediaShare, and

Backup. Folders beneath the top-level folders are called sub-folders. For example, MediaShare is enabled for

media streaming. You could create sub-folders in MediaShare with names such as: “Photos” “Music” “Video”

and “Movies.” See the examples below under

Creating sub-folders

. (For more information on media streaming,

see

Stream media to your entertainment center

.)

You can rename or delete FileShare, MediaShare, and Backup folders. Before doing so, please read the

recommendations in the following table:

Creating sub-folders

Creating folders on your PC and saving them to the MediaShare folder on your media vault provides an easy

way to organize your media files. Follow the example below to learn how to create sub-folders and save them to

the MediaShare.

In this example, you will create sub-folders in the MediaShare folder for storing your music files.

Recommendations

Shared Folders Recommended Files

FileShare

Use this folder to store any important files that you want to share across your

network.

MediaShare

HP configured this folder to allow media streaming to home entertainment

centers. HP does not recommend renaming or deleting this Shared Folder if

you are considering using this feature now or at some point in the future to

store your music, videos, movies, and digital pictures.

(For more information, see

Stream media to your entertainment center

.)

Backup

NTI's DriveBackup! defaults to this Shared Folder to store PC system backup

files. These are large files containing all of your hard drive's data. (For more

information, see

Create a drive backup

.)

In addition, HP Easy Backup also defaults to this Shared Folder to store folder

and file backups. (For more information, see

Use Easy Backup

.)

HP does not recommend renaming or deleting this Shared Folder if you plan

on using HP Easy Backup or NTI's DriveBackup!

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