[Thatgrumguy]

XBMC has managed to fill the ATV's internal storage with all the thumbnails etc - is there any way that I can have XBMC store everything on a network location on my home network?

[Ned Scott]

XBMC has managed to fill the ATV's internal storage with all the thumbnails etc - is there any way that I can have XBMC store everything on a network location on my home network?

Path substitution to the rescue!

In your userdata folder make a new text document called "advancedsettings.xml" with the following content (if you already have this file, just add this text in there somewhere between the <advancedsettings> tags):

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <pathsubstitution>
    <substitute>
      <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
      <to>smb://somecomputer/folder/etc/Thumbnails/</to>
    </substitute>
  </pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

[nsviper]

Ned, another post I found whilst looking for this had the following:

<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails</from>
<to>smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Media/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

Are you able to confirm which one is right, and also what ID/pass does the ATV2 use to connect to the SMB share as?

[ajoergensen]

Ned, another post I found whilst looking for this had the following:



Are you able to confirm which one is right, and also what ID/pass does the ATV2 use to connect to the SMB share as?

I am actually using

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
        <substitute>
                <from>special://Thumbnails</from>
                <to>smb://user:password@server/share</to>
        </substitute>
  </pathsubstitution>

It works but I'm not sure if it's better or worse than the other suggestions

mvh
Allan

[darkscout]

And with the latest patches, you can use NFS too

[Ned Scott]

Ned, another post I found whilst looking for this had the following:



Are you able to confirm which one is right, and also what ID/pass does the ATV2 use to connect to the SMB share as?

IIRC, both do the same thing, but special:// is much easier to remember. I totally forgot about it!

[Sarlic]

For those of us unable to set up the centralize mysql library, could this potentially be a fix? How's the speed/responsiveness of the ATV when this is set up?

[Claus.Munch]

Just a quick note.. I had some issues regarding XBMC reading advancedsettings.xml .. Remember to "chown mobile:mobile advancedsettings.xml" *gg* makes it a HOLE lot easier for XBMC to read the file