Hi there,
I am new to the community and have been researching the system for the past few months. I have a newly created LMCE hybrid box. I followed the steps in the wiki and added a new 750GB drive to the system. After getting the partition setup and everything, I have a bunch of media that I would like to copy over to the newly formatted drive (its setup to use LMCEs file structure.)
How do I go about copying over a bunch of my .mkv movies over to the new LMCE storage drive?
Many thanks,
Ryan
It is quite easy, if you are using windows you will see Linuxmce in your network share. double click , might ask for the password, I believe the username and password is same as you use for webadmin. ( This is all if you are accessing from internal network).
you will see your 750 hard drive device number, and I story in public if you want or user_1 , ur choice.
hope that helps.
take care. peace.
You can also try moving files from within the web admin, going to files and media-> media files sync, expanding video, when you click on a file or directory, in the view that comes up, there is an option to move - never tried it though but saw it there.
You can also ssh to the server go the /home/public/data/videos (for example), you should see the link to you drive (most likely will show in a different colour), with the device number, and type mv *.mkv <the link to your drive>
Also you can use winscp/filezilla to connect to the core/hybrd and navigate the folders.
Keep in mind that when copying files into the LMCE structure you should either disable UpdateMedia or create a .folderlock file to prevent UpdateMedia from scanning the directories you are placing files into. See: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Folder_lock
Failure to do this can result in strange problems with media detection & tagging.
J.
thanks everyone. I ended up digging into the sync media section, and I was able to add all of my music pretty easily.
For now I am now ripping all of the DVDs I still have hard copies for, since LMCE does such a great job of tagging everything and downloading the cover art. After that I am going to try to convert all of my other .iso files to the .dvd format that I read in the forums and see if that works.
So far, i am VERY happy with this!
Below is my core/hybrid build.
Abit AB9 Pro
core2 quad 2.4Ghz processor
4GB mushkin RAM
1 - 160GB WD drive for the system
1 - 750GB samsung drive for media (will eventually buy a bunch of drives and do a RAID5 array)
XFX 8800GTS 512MB video card with dual DVI & one s-VIDEO
Pioneer DVD burner (need to upgrade to a blue ray player)
40" Sony Bravia S5100