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I have a Kodi system running windows 7 and a 2tb drive with all Kodi library files(Videos, Movies etc) on it. I plan to move the drive to a cheap Home NAS Server I built. After I move the drive to the new system can I just edit the paths to the TV Shows and Movies to match or will I have to rescan everything in again?
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The full path of each file is stored in the database, so no.
One option: export library to one xml file.
Use a text editor (not notepad, not word, try notepad++) to search and replace the paths.
Delete the videos database.
Import the xml.
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2015-04-19, 05:36
(This post was last modified: 2015-04-19, 05:37 by lobsta.)
Well I'll be .. I done it easily. The drive originally was D: so when I moved it to the NAS I mapped it to D: on the Kodi system before I started up Kodi. Everything works fine. Not sure what negative issues may become of it this was but so far everything is working.
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A problem will only arise if you want to share your database with a kodi machine not running windows. Other oses don't have a concept of D:\
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