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Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 01 May 2018, 06:58
by hgny123
Hi all!
Purchased MrMC for my shield tv and love it!
I have an external HDD that i plugged to my shield with plenty of movies and tv show's, but i dont have an access through MrMC.
So. My question is how do i get an access to my HDD?
Thanks!
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 01 May 2018, 08:23
by koying
You don't see your HDD listed in "Videos-Files" ?
Can you see it via, eg, X-plore (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... lore&hl=fr) ?
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 01 May 2018, 08:28
by hgny123
I do see it in video files, but can not enter it. It says that the source have been moved or something like this. I can take a photo when i will back home.
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 01 May 2018, 08:51
by koying
Ok. Please also test if you can enter via X-plore.
It could be that the format of your HDD is not supported by shield (NTFS?)
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 01 May 2018, 08:59
by hgny123
I can access it via x-plore kodi and spmc. I searched in the forum and saw that storage permission isn't prompt automatically, so i will chack that issu and will updae if that was the problem.
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 01 May 2018, 12:01
by hgny123
Indeed, permissions problem, had to check the storage permission in settings of shield.
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 10 Aug 2018, 16:59
by alphabetagaga
hi guys
i'm having a similar problem. on mrmc lite i go to
media sources > video
my hdd (elements) shows up above 'add videos' and click on it and get 'remote share - path not found or invalid'
my hdd shows up in x-plore and have been using it with kodi/spmc. any suggestions?
thanks a lot
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 10 Aug 2018, 17:21
by alphabetagaga
it's ok i found it

i thought there was something in
shield settings > storage & reset
that i had to enable storage access for but it was actually under
shield settings > apps > mrmc lite > permission
Re: Playing from my HDD - Nvidia Shield
Posted: 30 Mar 2022, 09:58
by Vaporizer
There is how do you can have permission to access the hard drive. For Windows 10/8 users, there are simple steps: Open This PC, then Right-click on the inaccessible external hard drive and select Properties. After, go to security and click on Edit. Click your username under group or username, and please check all boxes under Allow column > OK > Apply. But you should pay a lot of attention when wanting to get access through MrMC because you can lose your data. I turned to
DATA RECOVERY SERVICES after trying to change the settings by myself.