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Well, I sorted KODI out.

The stumbling point was that all the online tutorials seemed to either show the WRONG screens, or show a Windows file (that is, the tutorials were for KODI installed on a Windows machine). I just couldn't find out WHERE the external hard drive was!!!!

The other apps on the media centre listed the external drive fine, and then you'd plough through the file system to find the media file to play. It worked, but was not much better than what I had before. The key was to BROWSE on the Add Files dialog, and look through the ROOT FILE SYSTEM. The external drive was found with an incomprehensible name under the storage directory.

So I've done all that, and now KODI is "refreshing the media I have, adding descriptions, thumbnails, genres and other useful information on the files. VERY HAPPY with this. I think I might just do a brief tutorial on this, or at least post in several spots about what to do.
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