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If you’ve enabled MediaServer and/or PhotoStation on your Synology NAS you might have noticed a bunch of “@eaDir” folders inside your data folders. You will not normally see this under samba or appletalk connections. via http://nerdlogger.com/2012/03/08/synology-nas-and-those-pesky-eadir-folders/

Somehow I accidentally evoked the restore process which revealed the hidden 'Q' partition on my Lenovo X220 which is around 12GB in size. After some poking around I found how to re-hide it.

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Right click the yellow star in the URL bar (RHS) or a blank area to the right of your last open tab and check the following options. Navigation Toolbar Add-on Bar Tabs on Top

First, this will VOID your warranty so proceed at your own risk. I take no responsibility for any smoke or damage to your device!! Although this is theoretically possible using the method described below, the 500Gb Hitachi hard drive ( HCS721050CLA382 ) in the MagicTV box is a dedicated media drive designed especially for Digital Video Recorders.

To connect to our shiny new Samba server, we’re going to work with a fictitious setup involving a Samba server and a Windows client workstation.

Automatically wrap folders around your movie files that may all be in one folder so that Actors, Subtitles and Fanart can be better stored and sorted in your XBMC movie directory, whereever that may be. http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permalinks/2913/using-file2folder-gui-to-prepare-your-movie-collection-for-media-browser If the link ever dies, search Google for ' file2foldergui '.

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Your Synology Diskstation will text you if you set it up using the Clickatell SMS service (account required). Follow the Synology forum link below to benefit from problem reporting on the following events: http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=19799 The device will send alerts based on the following: Volume has crashed. (Including internal volume, DX5/RX4 or system volume) Volume has degraded. (Including internal volume, DX5/RX4 or system volume) DX5/RX4 no longer exists. Internal disk has crashed. DDNS registration failed. UPS has been disconnected. Internal fan stopped. DX5/RX4 fan stopped. The system has shut down due to overheating.

For one reason or another, a print job may get hung up and stop responding. You may be unable to print or even to cancel the job. One way to possibly clear up this problem is to use the Windows command line to stop and restart the printer spooler after flushing it. The services command “sc” or the “net” command can be used. Here are the steps using the services command: Open the command prompt. For Vista or 7, you will need administrator privileges. In the command prompt, type and enter   “sc stop spooler” (without quotes). Next type and enter the line below:        del /q /f /s "%SystemRoot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*" Then type and enter “sc start spooler” (without quotes). This procedure will clear out the Spooler and should allow you to continue with your printing. Note that this will not clear paper jams or mechanical problems. Credit: Techsupportalert.com

here I am fanatical about storing my photos and home videos on my NAS using the date and time they were taken so that any media renderer will naturally sort them chronologically. It also takes any guesswork out of figuring out when the movie or photo was taken as it's simply the filename i.e. 20110824-100559 being 2011, August 24th @ 10:05:59 AM. See my other post here that shows how I use "Lupas Rename 2000" to automatically do this for hundreds (or even thousands) of photos in seconds. When I got an iPhone, things got complicated as I could not find anything that would read the EXIF information embedded in the iPhone MOV files and use this to rename the videos. It took weeks to work out a simple solution so I'm posting it here to assist others.

I tweaked Chrome once using this method and knew it was dead easy and then I got a new laptop and forgot to back up my Chrome installation before wiping the drive. It took me 4+ hours to figure this out again so hopefully this will help others who want icons on their bookmarks bar to these common settings as shown below.

I am fanatical about storing my photos and home videos on my NAS using the date and time they were taken so that any media renderer will naturally sort them chronologically. It also takes any guesswork out of figuring out when the movie or photo was taken as it's simply the file name i.e. 20110824-100559 being 2011, August 24th @ 10:05:59 AM. See my other post here that shows how I use "Lupas Rename 2000" to automatically do this for hundreds (or even thousands) of photos in seconds.