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path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - superbeefy - 2013-09-03

I tried upgrading from 12.2 to the nightlies and was unable to get path substitution working correctly. I tried regressing throughout the nightlies and this problem seems to be present throughout all the nightly builds of gotham. When I looked through the debug logs it looks like its picking it the substitutions and getting log messages saying its doing it. Which look like they are coming from here https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/xbmc/settings/AdvancedSettings.cpp#L1000, but they don't seem to get used.

The the method URIUtils::SubstitutePath @ https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/xbmc/utils/URIUtils.cpp#L396 looks like its handling the replacements after advancedsettings init, but when did a quick search of github it doesn't look like that method is being used in relation to the masterprofile anymore. I didn't really dig any further than that, so I could be completely wrong.

Code:
<pathsubstitution>
          <substitute>
                <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/</from>
                <to>smb://atlas.local/xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/Video/</to>
          </substitute>
          <substitute>
                <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Music/</from>
                <to>smb://atlas.local/xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/Music/</to>
          </substitute>
        <substitute>
                <from>special://masterprofile/playlists/</from>
                <to>smb://atlas.local/xbmc/userdata/playlists/</to>
          </substitute>
        <substitute>
                <from>special://masterprofile/sources.xml</from>
                <to>smb://atlas.local/xbmc/userdata/sources.xml</to>
          </substitute>
          <substitute>
                <from>special://masterprofile/mediasources.xml</from>
                <to>smb://atlas.local/xbmc/userdata/mediasources.xml</to>
          </substitute>
    </pathsubstitution>


RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - BDPNA - 2013-10-12

Agreed on this and just posted in another thread. Hopefully one of the devs will see this. I am also using the special://masterprofile method to substitute sources.xml in and it's not pulling.

RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - rimster - 2014-05-12

noticed it to in full version... BUMP

RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - Ned Scott - 2014-05-12

Does this happen if you use special://profile instead of special://masterprofile?

RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - rimster - 2014-05-12

Doesn't seem to make a difference. Checked the logs and saw a lot of these:

17:41:19 T:248332 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::Create - Error creating C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails
17:41:19 T:248332 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::Create - Error creating special://masterprofile/Thumbnails
17:41:19 T:248332 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::Create - Error creating C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails\Video
17:41:19 T:248332 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::Create - Error creating special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video

So it doesn't look like it's doing the substitution, although advencedsettings.xml is being loaded correctly.

RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - rimster - 2014-05-13

Just tried the 13.1 beta1, but problem still seems to be around in the version

RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - Ned Scott - 2014-05-13

I haven't tested it with thumbs, but pathsubs are still working for me for video sources and for keymap files. *shrug*

RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - rimster - 2014-05-13

found a fix for my problem. Before Gotham this worked:

Code:
    <pathsubstitution>
        <substitute>
            <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails</from>
            <to>\\MYNAS\Qmultimedia\Thumbnails</to>
        </substitute>
    </pathsubstitution>

After looking at the original post i noticed that addition of the smb: marker so i changed my line to:

Code:
    <pathsubstitution>
        <substitute>
            <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails</from>
            <to>smb://MYNAS/Qmultimedia/Thumbnails</to>
        </substitute>
    </pathsubstitution>
and that does seem to have done the trick. Thanks Ned for looking into this.

RE: path substitution for special paths broken in gotham - alwayzbless - 2014-05-23

I've been having issues with getting path subs working in Gotham too. They appear to work for video thumbnails but audio thumbnails aren't scraping / being cached properly and it results in thumbnails showing and then disappearing at random. If I revert to 12.3 and use the same source/advanced settings/password XML files they work perfect. I as well have tried every version of Gotham even the nighties and nothing will get it to work properly.