Same old question asked & answered now a diffrent approa

[TheCow5z]

I know this question has been asked and answered a million times but I am hoping this is a diffrent approach.

I've created my website with Thumbnail images for each file in each folder however I loose a lot of the controle I gain with HFS (security) and in order to see the thumnail you must first go inside the folder.
currently when you add a real folder in HSF and you go the the website you can open that folder and if subfolders exis HFS will generat/display a Folder Icon for each subfolder.

I am wondering instead of having HFS displaying/generating an icon of a folder for each subfolder, it reads and displays a 100x75 thmbunail image with the name folder located in each folder for each subfolder.

well I am hoping this is a new approach and if its possabe perhaps this feature can be turned on and off for each real folder you add to HFS.
this would be freat if you can sharing Music albums or Videos as for album cover or the movie cover would be able to be seen.

[maverick]

Add a folder comment and include the appropriate html to open a thumbnail image (you would have to include these images in the VFS). HFS generated icons will still show but so will your much larger thumbnail.

[TheCow5z]

Brilliant Ides, tried it and it does work but with one minor problem (well not really a problem).

currently I have 9 Real Folders being shared and in some of these folders are hundreds/thousands of subfolders (music & Videos), that option you stated works great but it would make HSF run very slower if I were to create Virtual Folders.

I did find a way around it for my movies folder, currently I have one folder name videos and hundreds of subfolders, one for each video file, I cold create one Real Folder and place all the video files in that folder then add a file comment for each file and include the appropriate HTML to open the thumbnail image, this works great for this type of folder, but wont work very well for a music folder with thousands of albums.

Hoping something like that stated in my first post will be possible as it would help.

[maverick]

I try to limit the amount of subfolders in one main folder to about 50-100 for faster loading of the page as all images will have to be opened.  Also, don't limit the connections or all images won't open.

it would make HSF run very slower if I were to create Virtual Folders.

With the amount of folders/subfolders you say you have HFS start-up time will be much slower if you created virtual folders.  That's true.  But, once HFS is loaded and running, you shouldn't notice a difference in speed.

One thing to keep in mind is that if you do decide to use virtual folders, you have to manually update any changes or additions you make to those folders.  However, judging from what you say the content of those subfolders are, the contents won't change for a movie or music album.

Real folders on the other hand update any changes automatically.  You might even consider a mix of virtual and real folders.

At least now you have another idea of what you can do to solve your problem.  Good luck.

[TheCow5z]

you have been a great of help maverick, thanks you very much.
To be exac, there are 1014 folders (artists) in the one real folder and each of those have subfolders (albums) for each artist, in total there is 2379 folders.

[rejetto]

using virtual folders but for the albums' folders, so you have a VFS with folders but not files.
pro: powerful and moderate amount of items.
con: you have to add folders manually.

using diff template at some level on your tree.
pro: you may also use only real folders, and use external diff templates.
con: in the worst case you may need a copy of diff.tpl in every album.