But you can also just use the video>files menus and use it as a direct media player without metadata. Kodi only indexes and imports metadata to the library when you tell it to do such a library scan.
There are also a few favourite movies on the SD card as well, but the bulk is on the HDD. When I'm travelling I use a Pi Zero, with a 4TB MyPassport portable drive connected via USB. Personally I run LibreElec rather than OSMC, but at home my media is on a NAS (WD M圜loud Mirror with a couple of 5TB external drives connected to it) accessed over my home network via NFS. Once you are ready with your SD card for formatting, follow these easy steps to format and make it reusable. If I might ask, what do you or anyone else use for storage? The SD card, external USB HD or maybe one of those 128 gb low profile thumb drives from Sandisk or Samsung? For micro SD cards use SD adapter cartridge to put the card into the slot of Mac.
I know it will index any video I have but was not clear if it would “import” the videos from a thumb drive or if it would index what is on the thumb drive and use it as a external USB drive. allow your computer to run examples include Windows on a PC or OSX on a Mac. I read through the OSMC wiki about how to set things up but was unsure how things worked. If you would like to reformat the SD card completely, you can use the SD.