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Quote:I have no idea how you could get around this except for how you currently are doing it. Ie: have movies on external drive loaded into XBMC Library.
At least this way, it does tell you it's not available if the drive isn't connected.

OK, so there is no way that Media Companion could show movie information of those "offline" movies / series.

I think the answer is No, but not exactly sure what your asking. If your asking the Media Companion retains a list of all movies on an external drive, but that the external drive is disconnected, then Media Companion can not read the relevant movie's nfo file, or display the artwork.

Just to make sure, I had understood it right: suppose you have 6 external hard disks you have stored your movies, series on and you want to watch a / search for a movie (you do not know where it is) with MC, then you have to plug in all of these 6 hard disks. Is that right? There is no way with MC to find out where the movie is stored before plugging in all of the drives. And you can see all of the movie, series information (of those moves, series stored on those drives) in MC only, after plugging in all of them. There is no other way. Is that right?

Mostly correct.

When you add a source, ie: 1 of your 6 external HDD's and add that source to Media Companion, then MC does a refresh. Any movie not found is removed from the cache. Therefore, only showing what is currently available.

Your best bet for finding out where a particular movie is, would be to add each HDD to MC, and export the list of movies, then add the next HDD. Exporting movie list is in Media Companioin with a few different templates. If you named the exported file as per your 1 of 6 HDD's etc, you could easily browse which HDD has which movies.