Quote Originally Posted by TimCurtis View Post

An easier way though is to directly access the USB drive while it is plugged into Pi and Moode is running. Moode posts samba (cifs/smb) shares for NAS, SDCARD, USB, USB1, USB2 and USB3 folders.

These should show up in Mac Finder in the Sidebar under Shared, moode. In Windows a drive can be mapped to the share by specifying \\moode\USB as the server. Similarly in Mac Finder, "Go, Connect to server..." specify cifs://moode/USB as the server. If using Linux then u will know how to mount the share :-)
Regards,
Tim
thanks for the info Tim - I tried this on my Mac a while back but unfortunately uploading was painfully slow via WiFi so I gave up - do you know of a simple way to do this with a direct wired connection between Pi and Mac (wither USB or ethernet)?

In Volumio I had no problem with hot-plugging my SSD drive but indeed no luck with Moode. The restart method works quite well most of the time (if lengthy) but I still get occasions when Moode won't recognise the drive