[Sovereign]

I am aware of the Media Stub feature. Using it may be key to answering my question.

I want to mark certain films as "on external device" (or some equivalent) so if the movie isn't found (implies: external not connected), XBMC asks me to plug in the external containing the file in question. Currently, XBMC simply says file not found, would you like to delete, when I click on a film that resides on the disconnected external drive.

Is this possible?

[Ned Scott]

There is some work done on it here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/551

It needs some more work to be included in XBMC, though.

[Sovereign]

Glad to see it's being worked on. I'll just hold my horses until then!