I have a lot of files (60+GB) to transfer to the SD card running the latest version of OSMC. The SD card is 128gb. I don’t want to transfer the files over samba as it will take too long so I am looking for a way to transfer the files manually. I have them all on a USB and on my PC. I can’t find a way to transfer them on the pi from USB to the root folder (more specifically the movies folder) and on my windows PC I can’t find a way to access the root partition to move the files.
I don’t want to just plug the USB in as it is annoying and I need it for other stuff.
Does anyone know how I can do this? Via command line or the GUI or on windows or something
Ok, your question is a bit confusing therefore also what people replied to you sounds a bit strange.
If you want to regulary transfer files to/from OSMC and you are just looking for a more performant network solution than samba then check out nfs, ftp, rsync or scp.
If you want to do it one time and you have the files on a USB Drive/Stick and you just don’t know how to transfer them from the USB drive to the SD Card here are some ideas:
b.) There is a filemanager gui within OSMC/Kodi under “system”
c.) Login OSMC via ssh you then either just can use the copy command cp -r \media\name-of-your-usb\folder-with-files \home\osmc\Movies . Alternatively if you like to have a tool to support you install mc sudo apt-get install mc