Currently, you can't select specific files or folders to be accessible/scanned on the Pogoplug, but this is something that has been mentioned on the forums by other members.

You can turn off media scanning in the settings screen, though.

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I'm going to look to Pogoplug for some more clarification on this, but I believe you do have some control over what is actually *transcoded* but it will still scan and process meta-data if you tell it to.

If you go into the media processing options, you can tell the Pogoplug to never transcode your files automatically. You can also tell it to never process (scan) media meta-data or generate any thumbnails. The limitation (at least, for now) is that you can't set it folder by folder.

If you turn transcoding off, you can select individual files to transcode fully from the same settings menu, too.

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I have the exact same problem, and I really cannot believe that this is so rarely requested, or that development staff thinks it is a better idea to provide samba printing functionality over simple folder restrictions.

I have a Tb drive connected, that has a LOT of data files on it. Many are mp3 , whcih are in a 'music' folder, and I of course would like them shared. But hundreds are pdf files and illustrator images that I have created (for work) that I don't particularly want to show up in the list on my iPhone app. And there are tons of jpgs (stock photos used in other work projects) in some of these folders that are showing up in a completely random manner in the 'photos' folder, rendering that feature useless as well.

It seems insane that there is no way to exclude folders from the indexing.

I just bought Pogoplug and immediately ran into this problem. I hope Pogoplug will allow the user to select which folders to scan and for what purpose.
It is really overkill to scan the entire shared hard disk, because it can contain
a lot of irrelevant files.

A good solution could be the android OS one:

Simply put a file named .nomedia in the directory you don't want to scan.

Or put a "." in front of a directory name. For exemple:

- directory pictures will be scan.
- directory .pictures will never be scan.

Is this impossible ?

When will Pogo get on the boat and fix this issue in their software?

woaloo said: I hope the pogoplug V4 HAVE this feature....

It doesn't. As of right now, the Series 4 is running the same firmware version as the older models.

Any update on this? -I could really use this feature.

Great,
It's a nice trick, but as you say, I have 3 HD, so it's a bit hard to do this everytime I reboot my pogoplug.
But it could be useful.
Thanks man.

It's just speculation as said Livis:

The drawback is every time you un-plug and plug back your hard drive, you need to run "/usr/local/cloudengines/bin/hbplug_init restart". Also, when you have multiple hard drives attached, it would be tricky if you want to access all of them from the web.

I don't even know how I can edit these files. I think that these files are in the pogoplug OS, but I don't know how and where I can access them.
A bit help could be welcome... ;-)