yet another case of path substitution



Hi all
I recently got a massive 8 tb disk (named 8tera) that I connected to my android tvbox via the tvbox usb port.
I may browse and execute the content of 8tera within any file manager app within android OS
and I created an FTP server so to allow other Kodi OS to retrieve all media from 8tera. It works.

As you all know pathsubstitution, to be used in advancedsettings.xml, save us from rescraping everything just by indicating the original source and the new destination.
This has worked like a charm in many instances

Unfortunately it looks it does not work when the new source is within an attached disk (8tera)
advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>smb://192.168.1.1/USB_Storage/moviesITFR/Italiani/</from>
<to>8tera/moviesITFR/Italiani/</to>

</substitute>

……..[some more path substitution from smb to 8tera]

</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

I have also tried with
<to>8tera\moviesITFR\Italiani\</to>
and
<to>/STORAGE/8COA2FAFOA2F958C8/SDCARD1/ANDROID/moviesITFR/Italiani/</to>
but no avail
After quitting Kodi I checked sources.xml just to see original paths have not changed.
 
Just to be thorough: in
Kodi
videos files menu, the source mentioned  is named: Italiani and if I open the menu associated,
I may select the usual action like edit source, remove source, change content and so on.

Am i missing anything ?
Thanks