2011-10-30, 17:57
Hey guys, I'm afraid I need your help.
I've been using XBMC Live until now and whenever I wanted to reinstall or something like that I just copied the .xbmc folder and all my (media sitting on a local partition) was on display again.
Now I really want to try OpenELEC, but this I came around one problem: I can't just copy the .xbmc folder (well, I could, but it would make no sense), as the whole file system is organzied differently and therefore the links would match. Ok, no biggie, so you just export and import your DB within XBMC (into on file, as I don't the nfo style) and define the folders as done way back then. That did work for me, but somehow some TV show episode thumbnails were missing. So I let XBMC clean the library and
all the content is gone. Kinda strange, because XBMC could find and play the imported content, but somehow it didn't like it that much, I guess. 
Long story short: What am I missing? What is the right way to move a library, pointing to files on a local partition (no NAS, SMB, ...), from one system to another?
Any help from you is appreciated.
I've been using XBMC Live until now and whenever I wanted to reinstall or something like that I just copied the .xbmc folder and all my (media sitting on a local partition) was on display again.
Now I really want to try OpenELEC, but this I came around one problem: I can't just copy the .xbmc folder (well, I could, but it would make no sense), as the whole file system is organzied differently and therefore the links would match. Ok, no biggie, so you just export and import your DB within XBMC (into on file, as I don't the nfo style) and define the folders as done way back then. That did work for me, but somehow some TV show episode thumbnails were missing. So I let XBMC clean the library and
all the content is gone. Kinda strange, because XBMC could find and play the imported content, but somehow it didn't like it that much, I guess. Long story short: What am I missing? What is the right way to move a library, pointing to files on a local partition (no NAS, SMB, ...), from one system to another?
Any help from you is appreciated.
Well, I guess I'll have to alter my db to a SMB share (even though the data remains on a local disk), then I won't run into these kinds of problems any more.
