Kodi Tutorial: Cleaning the Video Library

Why Clean the Video Library?

Sometimes we can delete videos from the hard drive by pluging the hard drive into another computer or maybe deleting videos over the network. When deleting videos this way Kodi needs to be informed of these changes so that it can remove the video from its library.

At the Home screen navigate to and select System:

Next navigate to Media:

To be able to clean the video library we need to make sure we have the Settings Level set to Advanced:

Next under Video Library section select Clean Library:

You will prompted to confirm cleaning the library. Navigate to the left and select Yes:

You will see the progress displayed once the clean process begins:

Next: Clean Music Library