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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:

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!

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 store all your music files to MediaShare.

  1. Create a sub-folder called Music:
    1. On your PC, browse to MediaShare. (For information on how to browse to MediaShare, see Browse, access, and save files.
    2. Click the File menu, click New, Folder, and then enter Music in the highlighted box. Click somewhere else to clear the highlight.
    3. Create Shared Folder called music
  2. Create two separate sub-folders within your Music folder:
    1. Double-click the Music folder.
    2. Click on the File menu, click New, Folder, and enter Jazz in the highlighted box. Click somewhere else to clear the highlight.
    3. Create a sub-folder called jazz
  1. Click the File menu, click New, Folder, and enter Rock & Roll  in the highlighted box. Click somewhere else to clear the highlight.
  2. You should now have two folders, Jazz and Rock & Roll, saved to your Music folder. All three folders are considered sub-folders to MediaShare.
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