# Navigation / Share Settings

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The "Navigation / share settings" tab of UMS allow you to determine the details of how UMS shares the content to your device. Below are the options that are available on this tab.

## Thumbnails

Generate thumbnails
  Select the checkbox for automatic creation of thumbnail pictures of your media files
Thumbnail seeking position (in seconds)
  Most video files begin with some seconds of a black background before the movie starts. You can set the time in seconds for the video thumbnail position.
Use MPlayer for video thumbnails
  The external program MPlayer sometimes yields better results for thumbnail creation than the default thumbnailer, so just try it.
DVD ISO thumbnails
  Create thumbnails for DVD ISO-images
Audio thumbnails display
  You can choose the behavior for audio thumbnails; search for alphabetical thumbnail pictures on the filesystem, or let UMS download album art from coverartarchive.org
Alternate video cover art folder
  Select the folder on your filesystem which contains cover art for videos

## Navigation / Parsing settings

Browse compressed archives (.rar/.zip/.cbr)
  If activated UMS is able to show the content of archives. If a media file in archive is chosen for playback it will be decompressed before streaming starts
Hide # Video Settings # Folder
  There is a virtual folder available called "# video settings #". You can navigate to this folder on your device and change some values for UMS online. With this option you can choose to not display this virtual folder.
Hide # Transcode # Folder
  You can choose to not show this virtual folder on your device.
Hide file extensions
  Some people might get confused if they see file extensions like jpg or avi, so you can hide them
Hide transcoding engine names
  UMS can stream your media file with different technologies. You can chose the technology (transcoding engine) in virtual folder # transcoded #. The default transcoding engine for playback is displayed after the name of each media file. With this checkbox you can hide that.
Hide empty/non-media folders
  Only display folders which contain media files
Show iTunes library
  Only available when iTunes is installed. Displays the iTunes library as a folder on your device so you can browse it.
Show iPhoto library
  Only available when iPhoto is installed. Displays the iPhoto library as a folder on your device so you can browse it.
Show Aperture library
  Only available on Mac when aperture is installed. Displays each Aperture library as a folder on your device so you can browse it.
Enable the cache
  WARNING: Disabling this will break the fully played status feature. When enabled, it makes browsing significantly faster and enables features like played status tracking.
Reset cache
  If the cache is corrupt you can use this feature to reset the contents of the database.
Hide cache folder
  Do not show this virtual folder on your device.
Sort files method
  Select how file lists are sorted and displayed on your device: by name or by date.

## Shared folders

shared folders
  All local drives are made available to PS3 by UMS. In a more secure environment you might want to chose the folders which are presented to your PS3. Press green + icon to add folders for access by UMS/PS3. Select folder and press red X icon to remove access to a folder. Press up and down arrows to change order of these folders.
magnifying glass
  Start first scan on your hard drive for media files to collect info about them in the cache.

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