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2017-03-30, 08:25
(This post was last modified: 2017-04-11, 08:18 by alexsisk.)
Hi folks,
I must be missing something simple. The path has changed for my videos (Primary share now LibreELEC instead of Win10.) On my Nvidia Shield in the other room, all the dead folders linked to my old Windows 10 Kodi install are still present in file manager and media sources. Context menus aren't providing any option to remove these sources. I'm running Kodi 17.1 on the Shield.
I've been trying to figure this out for many days, so I'd appreciate any assistance. Thank you in advance!
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Hello alexsisk
Have you tried to run "Clean Library"?
Go to Settings>Media>Library. In there you will see it is broken up into Videos and Music. Each of those has a "Clean Library" option. Just select and run it.
All working well, it should remove all the movies that have dead links.
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also...
go to Settings>Media>General and enable "Allow File Renaming and Deletion"
If you can't see any of these options, just change the Menu Level as seen in the bottom left corner of your screen. Settings are Basic, "something", Advanced and Expert.
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Yeah, I have it set to allow File Renaming / Deletion and I always leave it on Expert settings for the most options.
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Well, I just had a play with my system and I definitely have a lot more options in the Context Menu than you have... including Delete Source.
It has to be something specific with your setup. Just need to figure it out. I am a Win10 user, so don't really understand the workings of Android. Even all the sources you have listed in your photo in Post #2, is foreign to me. You obviously use it in a lot more ways than we do.
Sorry I can't be much more help to you. Hopefully others will pick up the thread and continue.
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Couldn't Kodi without it. :-)
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Switch skin to Estuary if running anything else
Go to Settings -> Media -> Library and there are all of your sources
If you can't see them something is broken in your install
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I'm on Estuary, I see the sources. I can't remove them via context menu as shown in the video and screenshot.
Alex
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Don't know what's wrong with your setup so I guess you have 2 options
1 Quit Kodi and edit sources.xml manually, and afterwards clean the DB
or
2 Uninstall and start fresh
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THANK YOU!!
I shouldn't be surprised - all data like that needs to be stored somewhere. (Duh) I've only been using Kodi actively for about 6 months. I've edited keyboard.xml, imported m3u playlists, but I wasn't consciously aware of sources.xml. I'll see if it's in the userdata directory or check the wiki for the path.
Or, if you just so happen to know, and receive this before I get a chance [ :-P ] ...I can figure out my OS-specific path if you know the general location.
Or search. Thanks again!!!!
Alex