[Ashaneil]

Hi Guys,
I currently have XBMC working just fine. It is streaming movies from my main box in another room. However, the shares where the media files are kept are running out of space. So I just 2x 2TB hard drives.

Currently, my structure is like this:

MediaLibrary-D\
--- Movies.EN\
--- Movies.Kids\

MediaLibrary-E\
--- TV Shows.EN\
--- TV Shows.Kids\
--- MusicVideos\

Questions:
1. What happens if I were to move Movies.Kids and TV Shows.Kids on to their own drives? All the files in those folders are already in the XBMC database? I use Ember Media Manager to organize my library (if that matters)?

2. What happens if I leave current files as they are but create an additional folder for the Movies.EN and TV Shows.Kids on the other 2 drives?

MediaLibrary-F\
--- TV Shows2.Kids\

MediaLibrary-G\
--- Movies2.EN\


Thanks for all your help

[Ardalista]

If you move the physical location of anything that you have scanned into your library it will remain in your library until you perform 'clean library' but the items will not play as the file isn't where it's physically looking for it.

If you move the content then run a library cleanup then the files that have been moved should be removed from the library, unless it can no longer scan the source.

So you would need to scan the new source location, but would end up with duplicates in your library if you do not perform the cleanup. this leaves 1 copy from the original location and the actual playable file from the new location.

AFAIK best advice is to;
1) export your library to separate files
2) move the contents of movies.kids and tv shows.kids to the new drive but leave the existing top level folders of movies.kids and TV shows.kids so when you run the clean library in XBMC it still has access to the original location.
3) clean library to get rid of the content that is missing from the library
4) remove the original movies.kids & tv shows.kids sources from XBMC
5) remove the original movies.kids & tv shows.kids folders

Add the new source locations, then import the contents back into the library.

[Ashaneil]

Thanks a lot, Ardalista. Will do that this weekend. Cheers!