I am using an imac running OSX 10.6.2 and have a boot camp partition running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit edition. I installed boot camp 3.0 on the windows 7 partition and it recognizes and reads my mac hard drive, but I am having the hardest time allowing windows media center to recognize and play my music,pictures,movies saved on the mac side.

I can physically drag the media from the mac side to the windows side and play it, but when I direct media player to the folders on the mac side no media pops up. I even tried to share those folders using homegroup with no luck.

Anyone know why this would be, or am I missing something big? Thanks.

11/9/2009 8:43:57 PM

what format are your media files in?

if they're from the ITMS, you're not going to be able to play them in media center. i don't think media center can play AAC as well - correct me if i'm wrong, though.

another possibility is that sometimes files don't get extensions because they're really not needed in OS X... but windows needs them. do you see extensions on the files?

11/9/2009 9:22:28 PM

The majority of them are mp3 files, at least when I click properties it shows .mp3. The funny thing is when I browse to them in windows explorer and double click on a file it will open windows media player and play it. I can also copy them to the windows partition and play them. It's weird.

11/9/2009 10:16:48 PM

that is indeed pretty strange.

just for fun, try downloading something like foobar2k... see if it can play them from the HFS partition.

11/9/2009 10:22:38 PM

No go also using foobar. Finds the folder and when I click add folder nothing shows up to browse the files. This is so weird. Why would it find it but not use it as a shared location. I am going to use the second hard drive that my previous topic talked about and double store my files. It is just frustrating because I want to use my ps3 to stream my files too. I have used eyestream, or whatever it was called on the mac side, with no luck.

11/9/2009 11:31:00 PM

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anybody else using Boot Camp with Snow Leopard + Windows 7?

I keep my MBP in win7 most of the time, and I have serious problems with waking from sleep and not sure why. I have the default Balanced power plan selected.

Many times when I close the laptop and leave it for more than just a few minutes, when I open it back up, it does not awake immediately. I often end up having to press the power button just to get it to wake up. Sometimes this causes it to wake up in Windows mode, sometimes it reboots completely, sometimes the battery has been drained and Windows has to restart (and gives me the Windows did not shut down properly message). Is this a common problem with Boot Camp? Can I fix it?

here's some links i found with people experience similar problems

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2328054&tstart=15
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10933649�
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2330836&start=0&tstart=0
http://www.bhall.com/2010/02/fix-closing-macbook-lid-shutdown-issues.html

[Edited on May 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM. Reason : almost makes have a MBP unbearable]

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