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Path substitution for special://userdata - ATGardner - 2012-08-15
I am following the guide to sync different XBMC clients with the same sources/database/whatever, and I understand I can substitute different special folders to point at my central installation to have it all use the same files.
Is there any special reason why I should just substitute the special://userdata folder for all my clients and have it all in one go? Or maybe even the special://home?
Are there any special folders that MUST (or maybe just highly recommended to) remain separate per client?
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/userdata /</from>
<to>smb://<MyMainHost>/<MyUsername>/AppData/Roaming/xbmc/userdata/</to>
</substitute>
RE: Path substitution for special://userdata - Ned Scott - 2012-08-15
There's a few, but off the top of my head I know you don't want to share the databases/ folder or the guisettings.xml file (contains hardware/device specific settings). The wiki (MySQL (wiki)) has a list of all the safe files that should work (or mostly work, in the case of addon_data) for path subs. Multiple units trying to share a SQL database (rather than a MySQL database) at the same time will have problems, and the database file can become corrupt.
RE: Path substitution for special://userdata - ATGardner - 2012-08-15
OK. So I'll just stick to the folders mentioned in the wiki. Thanks for the help.
Regarding the Database folder - does the client even use that folder after I setup a MySQL instance on my main machine? Is it a separate database for some other uses?
RE: Path substitution for special://userdata - Ned Scott - 2012-08-15
(2012-08-15, 11:02)ATGardner Wrote: Regarding the Database folder - does the client even use that folder after I setup a MySQL instance on my main machine? Is it a separate database for some other uses?
Yep, there's a database for add-ons (keeps track of what's enabled/disabled, etc), a database for various images, and maybe a few others I think. XBMC can only use MySQL to share the video and music databases, but will still use those other ones for various things.