Locking specific folders?

[snowmobile74]

First off hello all, I've been looking at getting a home media center for a while.

Currently I have a server setup with about 10TB of storage and enough movies on it to keep me bussy for a while

Right now I have around 400 movies and about 79 TV shows.

I havent actually bought SageTV yet I'm trying to decide if I want to.

Anyway I want to be able to lock out movies and TV shows while maintianing the nice directory structue. Like having a pin code to enter the folder "true blood" but allowing anyone to get into "sponge bob square pants"
Does anyone know a way to do this while still maintianing the directory structure navigation?

I tried installing the web server and putting ratings on shows, then using parental controls on files but that kind of sucked. It changed the way it recognized the files I put ratings on.

I also found a utility to hide some folders, but I dont want to hide them. I just want to lock it up.

I've looked around for a few days and found some old threads from 2005 that talked about this but it doesnt look like anything came of it.

[farscapesg1]

Yeah... good luck Let me know if you figure anything out that works for you, cause I've asked and seen this asked for multiple times over the years and apparently folder/file restrictions are nowhere on the SageTV team's radar. File management is my one major complaint with SageTV... but for some reason I continue to use it

There were some old threads showing how to create a custom media screen to show the restricted videos, and exclude shows from showing up in the primary imported video's section (for example), but it was too much of a PITA to set up and manage to make it worth my time. It got worse when I went to the extenders because sometimes the devices seem to loose their configuration setup (on a reboot I get the default STV and it wants to go through the basic configuration). All the work I did to configure the custom screen goes "poof" when it did this, so I just gave up. For now, I just use SageMC and when I want to play a restricted file I tell it to "play other file" and have to go through my WHS "shares" folder to find the file I want. No thumbnails, no descriptions, etc.

One of these days I keep hoping that the SageTV team will decide to take up the task of media management within the application, either by network login or thier own "in-house" design. I'm not holding my breath though since hasn't happened in the last 5 years or so since I started using SageTV....