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  • January 22, 2011 at 5:40 pm #25865
    Mike Garcen
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      I’ve had this annoying issue and for the life of me i can’t figure it out. Basically, i have my shared videos on my WHS, and i had some sub-folders under it (so \\SERVER\VIDEOS\FOLDER1) which I had some files, but now have deleted them and the folder1. It no longer exists. That is, unless I go into Media Center, then those annoying empty folders are still showing!

      I’ve tried deleted the thumbs.db and the ehthumbs.db, but they still show up. I’ve tried launching WMP to see if there’s anything i can do, but so far i’m basically out of ideas.

      Any clues?

      January 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm #29463
      swoon

        Is this in the video library in WMC?

        January 23, 2011 at 5:44 pm #29464
        mikinho

          Open WMP and go to the Library tab.  Look in either Videos or Other media for the orphaned object.

          I wrote a utility to clean that up but I haven’t used it in years if you want to give it a go.

          January 23, 2011 at 6:25 pm #29465
          Mike Garcen

            yes, it’s the “Videos” browser within Win7MC that’s having the issue. I just tested and it looks like they’re showing up in Windows Explorer as well. Unfortunately only a few of the orphan files are showing up in WMP, and deleting them does nothing. When i try to delete from Windows Explorer, i got Error 0x800710FE: Cannot find the specified file or folder.

            The video folders were stored on a network drive FWIW.

            January 23, 2011 at 6:34 pm #29466
            Mike Garcen

              Well I feel like an idiot. So i was looking closer at some of the higher root folders and i noticed the odd sync icon (which i swear i never enabled it), and what do you know, my Win7 system had Photos and Videos set to be auto-sync and available off-line.

              Turned that off, and VOILA!

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