Running Kodi from a USB hard drive
#1
I downloaded Kodi yesterday and installed everything and added my media, all located on my external drive. I've unplugged my drive and connected to another pc and all my media paths have gone and no media shows up when I run Kodi. It's almost like a clean install.

I'm sure all the information needed and whatever I've scrapped must be located on the PC I initiated the install on.

If it's not to much trouble could you guys point me in the direction of instructions of how to make KODI completely mobile.

Thank you
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#2
You would need to use Portable Mode http://kodi.wiki/view/Windows_FAQ#Portable_mode
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#3
I'm not sure it's possible is your media in on the same USB hard drive as the Kodi installation, since each each pc you plug the USB hard drive into may assigned a different drive letter.

So on PC1 where you set everything up the USB HDD may have been assigned to drive G, so when the media was added the source url Kodi uses would contain that G drive letter, then PC2 may have assigned USB HDD to drive H and so it no longer sees the media as it's looking for it under drive G which is no longer valid.

You would need a way to fix the drive letter assigned on every PC.
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#4
I didn't think of the drive letters changing Smile

Yes the video files are on the drive with the kodi install folder, but obviously separate

Thsnk you guys for the help
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