Move library from 3 hard drives to one. How to deal with the paths?



Hello,

I’m going to move all my medias from 3 hard drives (so 6 sources – 3 movies/3series) to one bigger hard drive (2 sources – 1 movies/1 series)
I’ve read a lot of things, like path substitution (tried, didn’t work), like creating a msql server to then edit the paths in the database, but I tried all the afternoon yesterday and I honestly suck at it. I didn’t even succeeded to reimport my library after editing the advancesettings.xml. My kodi remained empty.

So I brought back everything as it was with my userdata backup.
Is there anything easy to just modify the paths. I really don’t want to re-scrap and edit a lot of media. I’ve work during years to my library, i cherish it !

I’ve read in a post:

Quote:The easiest method is to export your library metadata to nfo files, and use Artwork Dump to download the artwork.
Then you just scan the nfo and artwork back into the library.

But what are the steps exactly (please correct below, it’s just a hypothesis)?

  1. Export my library (one file or separate files?)
  2. Use Artwork Dump (does it save the exact artworks I have in my library for each media, i’ve never used it?)
  3. Then set up the new paths of my new hard drive
  4. Import my library
  5. Bring back artworks with Artwork Dump
  6. Start a scan/scrap to check if everything is ok.

Thank you beforehand for your help, it’ll be greatly appreciated!