[Fidex]

Hi all, I open the thread since I'm starting to organize my XBMC movies but I have a little problem ... I commented at the beginning.
I have spread in several movies (external and internal) hard disks:

1 Internal 3TB connected all time to the computer
1 External 2TB not always connected to the PC
1 External 500G not always connected.

Then I wanted to do is that XBMC library, I appear only movies that are "connected" ie movies hard drives that I have connected to the PC. If I have the first procedure, which only the disk that show, and if I have all that is all show.
This is posible¿? Thanks in advance and best regards.

[PatK]

It's possible.... of course with Kodi-XBMC anything and everything is possible, no surprises here.

What you ask is a bit tricky in that it is not a straight set-up, and is fraught with danger (I'll explain).

I guess you know by now that Windows plays musical chairs with drive letters (mostly external drives) and the letter might be different if you have a USB drive installed on boot or not.You need to manually specify a drive letter down the alphabet a bit so that when you plug in the 2TB it's always going to be G: drive and the 500 H: drive. The software library depends on hard paths and needs to always be the same, regardless of the boot order and auto-assigns.

Once you have scraped in all the movies, and your library is more or less complete. You can make a smart playlist that includes the rule 'path' 'contains' G:/movies or some such.... clicking this palylist should bring up only movies on G: drive.... etc. Save that playlist as a favourite, then using one of the many custom skins that allow for custom home buttons linked to that favourte and viola... only items on G: show up. Repeat for as many drives as you like.

Slight word of caution: using the clean-up tool, will wipe out the library contents of any video which is not available in the working path. e.g. clean-up only when all drives are attached and properly pathed and sourced.

Playing a movies that is not currently available, will result in a requester to delete or ignore...ignore or cancel this of course.

[Fidex]

Thank you so much for the reply, I have done something very similar to what you have told me ...
I created different "libraries" and have added each bookmark, and then I set a "paragraph" in the main menu with AEON Nox Skin for movies.

So if I choose the "Movies" option I go and see a school library with all the movies, and in sub-groups, I have linked the different hard drives, so you can access each of them at a time and just watch movies each hard disk.

The question I have now is:
If I move a movie from a hard drive to another, XBMC will detect and delete a movie library and put in the appropriate library?

[PatK]

To be sure... there is only ONE library, you use smart playlists, tags, or nodes to filter what list shows up. If you select 'update library on start-up' in settings, then any new movies will auto scrape and now show-up if the sources are available naturally.

The software will only delete a library listing if you use the clean-up command, or manually select the file for deletion within (note if you have exported posters, graphics and extras... you will still have a folder of the movie name with those items within).

Another way of skinning this cat.. Meow ..is to use profiles, one for each hard drive or combination.

[Fidex]

Thank you very much again, just checked it works perfectly when I move a movie from the hard disk to another, automatically changes from library and delete it from where it has disappeared: D

Thank you so much for the help.I will continue customizing the XBMC: D