How to recover after a new install?

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I think that my SD card went bad so I reinstalled a new image on my RP, not sure if R2 or R4 though the image seems to look the same as to release number and number of bytes/date.
Strangely, I can read the old SD card on my *nix box so I am wondering if there are any of my old custom/selection files that I can copy over from the old Sd to the new Sd so I wont have to go through a lot of re-setup ?

Thanks

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Grab the ~/.kodi directory.

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When you read the old SD card on the PC is it missing just config.txt from the FAT partition? If so you may be able to just make a new one and continue using the old SD card. What exactly would be in config.txt depends on which version of OSMC it has installed on it.

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This will indeed work if the user was on the latest version before.

Sam

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Thank you folks, this is encouraging. And of course it leads me to a couple more questions.

  1. From the old SD which is not bootable, what file contents or file name will tell me the version number ?
  2. My old SD is a 32gb and the new is 8gb. Do I need to worry about the smaller capacity or is 8gb sufficient ? I do not put downloaded files on the SD, they go to a large capacity USB device.