2024-03-01, 18:22
I’m dumping Apple TV and iTunes and moving to Kodi.
My intent is to keep the Kodi program and my movies/TV shows on a dedicated 16TB external HDD attached to a Lenovo mini PC/HTPC.
As a first step, I just installed Kodi in portable mode on the HDD.
From reading a Kodi Smart Home Beginners Guide [here], it looks like the best place for my movie/TV files will be under the drive:\Kodi>portable data>media folder in separate “Movie” and “TV Show” folders that I will create. That seems simple enough.
Unfortunately, before I found that Guide info, I linked a full season of a particular TV show as a “source” from another connected HDD.
Now I can’t figure out how to delete these videos or this “source” so I can re-install the videos in their proper folder.
Numerous Wiki and forum posts [for example, here] say that the only way to delete a video or source entry is via a “Context” menu, accessed by a right mouse-click or by hitting the letter “c” on the keyboard [here]. I’ve tried this many times and can’t get a “context” menu to come up.
So here’s my first question: Is there something else I can try to get to the “context” menu?
Second question: There are two “media” folders in the Kodi program. One is located at the Kodi root [drive:\Kodi>media]. The other is within the Kodi Portable Data folder [drive:\Kodi>portable data>media]. The Smart Home Guide says to use the drive:\Kodi>portable data>media folder, but I realize Smart Home is not as authoritative as the Kodi Wiki. So does this forum agree that the drive:\Kodi>portable data>media folder is the right place to create my Movie and TV Show folders?
Thanks in advance.
My intent is to keep the Kodi program and my movies/TV shows on a dedicated 16TB external HDD attached to a Lenovo mini PC/HTPC.
As a first step, I just installed Kodi in portable mode on the HDD.
From reading a Kodi Smart Home Beginners Guide [here], it looks like the best place for my movie/TV files will be under the drive:\Kodi>portable data>media folder in separate “Movie” and “TV Show” folders that I will create. That seems simple enough.
Unfortunately, before I found that Guide info, I linked a full season of a particular TV show as a “source” from another connected HDD.
Now I can’t figure out how to delete these videos or this “source” so I can re-install the videos in their proper folder.
Numerous Wiki and forum posts [for example, here] say that the only way to delete a video or source entry is via a “Context” menu, accessed by a right mouse-click or by hitting the letter “c” on the keyboard [here]. I’ve tried this many times and can’t get a “context” menu to come up.
So here’s my first question: Is there something else I can try to get to the “context” menu?
Second question: There are two “media” folders in the Kodi program. One is located at the Kodi root [drive:\Kodi>media]. The other is within the Kodi Portable Data folder [drive:\Kodi>portable data>media]. The Smart Home Guide says to use the drive:\Kodi>portable data>media folder, but I realize Smart Home is not as authoritative as the Kodi Wiki. So does this forum agree that the drive:\Kodi>portable data>media folder is the right place to create my Movie and TV Show folders?
Thanks in advance.