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    Hi, this may sound silly but as a newbie to LibreELEC i chose to runs the initial installation from a USB to get a feel for it - choosing "live", then "run" from boot. Thankfully after setting up and testing the system LibreELEC appears to meet my needs so I decided to install it to the PCs SSD.

    Having spent quite some time setting up the installation on the USB I wanted to transfer that installation to the hard disc. I initially did this by cloning the USB to the SSD but that still left the installer/live/run question on boot. So I decided to do a proper install and chose "installer", that went well but unsurprisingly created a clean install. No worries, I decided to recursively copy the .kodi directory on my USB to the .kodi directory on the SSD. Unfortunately that didn't work as planned and the new SSD installation remained "virgin". So I had to repeat setting up the system.

    Bottom line: all is well but it would be nice to have the option to "clone" an experimental installation to become a permanent one during installation.

    thanks for the response.

    I normally backup using disc imaging (windows) or rsync (Linux) and had forgotten about the backup feature in kodi, my error.


    Still have no idea why recursively copying the content of the old .kodi directory over the new .kodi directory didn't work but it doesn't matter now, the installation is back with the only issue being suspend/resume.


    Thanks again

    The common mistake with recursive copying is some form of cp -R /oldstorage/.kodi /newstorage/.kodi which results in the old Kodi userdata files being copied to /storage/.kodi/.kodi and since that's the wrong location you still see a clean install on restart.

    It also sounds like the clone worked (it booted) so the missing step was editing syslinux.cfg in the boot partition to change default boot mode from 'run' to 'boot'

    Hi, looks like I made a newbie mistake with cp, annoying as I am not new to Linux and of course I didn't check.

    I now have solved my suspend and resume issue too, which makes the LibreELEC installation better than any other Linux installation I have used [it now works like the Windows one :(]. I will update my other post with the rational and solution