I currently have a libriary on a 2tb external disk linked to a local installation of Kodi, time has come that I need to migrate this libriary to a larger drive (5TB)
Anyone got expirience of this, goes without saying many hours have gone into getting the libriary just how I want so Im looking for the easiest “plug and go” method
Also… for bonus points
Is there a way I can access the Kodi on my smart TV without having to use a sepereate installation on a PI or sometihng for there?
TV is in same room if it helps
It should be fairly easy
After moving the data, you could simply change the drive letters with Disc Management.
So if your current 2 TB external drive letter is D:, and the new 5 TB is E:, after you moved the data, swap the drive letters and kodi will never know the data has been moved
Shut down kodi.
Move the data to the new drive.
Press WIN+X to select and open disk management.
Right click on your old 2TB drive and select “Change drive letter and path”, and change it to something not in use.
Do the same with your new 5 TB drive, changing the drive letter to the one the 2TB drive previously used.
The data is now the exact same place it was before, just on the new and bigger drive
As for watching it on your smart tv, if your tv has a plex plugin available, you could install the plex server client on your pc, and as long as it’s on, it would serve it up for the tv
If plex isn’t to your liking, you could alternatively connect the tv directly to your pc with a long hdmi cable, since it’s in the same room.
If it has to be over 5 meters, an active cable is needed.
But if your tv has a Plex app available I’d give it a go first
