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I have been considering using this for a bit now, but I have a few questions before I attempt to use it on my main box. I have spent literally hundreds of hours on tweaking and perfecting the layout etc. of XBMC and I just want to make sure it will do what I need it to do.
1. Will all of my views be saved? Some add-ons can only be customized by going through them screen by screen and setting the view types you want manually, This alone took an insane amount of time, as some of these add-ons have thousands of screens.
2. If I create a backup to an external drive, then wipe my hard drive so I can do a clean install, can I then just import the backup from the external?
The only other thing that worries me is all the metadata and fanart I have edited over the past few years, but I assume since I exported my entire library and created .nfo files for every video that all the info should just show up automatically when I scan my video sources (they are in the same folders as the videos).
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2012-10-25, 00:33
(This post was last modified: 2012-10-25, 00:37 by john.doe.)
(2012-10-23, 15:15)robweber Wrote: I managed to find the issue here. Completely my fault too. At some point the __init__.py files that are needed to make the directories python packages were removed from the Frodo branch of the addon. Since switching branches in git does not remove the .pyo files I still had them in my development directory even though they didn't actually exist in the repo. I've added them back in, along with a few other bug fixes. Here is a link to the most current Frodo build.
https://github.com/downloads/robweber/xb...-frodo.zip
Thanks for the quick fix – sometimes Git is too clever for it's own good!
I've downloaded the latest zip but XBMC is now telling me that the "Add-on does not have the correct structure" and won't install it...
EDIT: It installs correctly after downloading the source files from github as a zip, but the zip from your link above (and in the github 'Downloads' section) is broken.
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Frodo version working well so far... except I've got it set to a max. of 5 backups, but it's making the newest backup then deleting it straight-away, instead of deleting the oldest one!
e.g. Deleting folder 20121031 instead of folder 20121026.
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Just an FYI to everyone, I've included this addon in the Transifex translation site as documented on the XBMC blog recently. Now that Frodo is in a feature freeze I plan on publishing to the Frodo specific repository as soon as its open. I'll pull any translations that are done and publish any new changes to the addon then. I'll also do an Eden update for anything that would work for that release as well.
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There shouldn't be a compatibilty issue. I'm assuming you have all the traffic going over the network; most likely a SMB share?
Try to run the whole thing in debug mode on your ATV1 and post a link to log here (use pastebin please). Most likely there is something funny going on with the paths and the folders are trying to write to directories that don't exist or it doesn't have access to.
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2012-11-26, 18:05
(This post was last modified: 2012-11-26, 18:06 by SFX Group.)
I really like this.....i do have one request
It doesnt backup the system settings, so when i do a restore my whole system has the wrong settings, so weather is default (even though it backs up my weather addon and settings), my location etc....
Need to add the main system settings to the backup as well, Is there a way of allow you to select backup or restore when running the application, hard work doing a restore when setting it up...
I am using this on Windows installed and Raspberry PI openELEC
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Where is the default backup location?
I pressed ok, it ran through a backup but I have to idea where it went?