[dkplayaclub]

Not sure how to search for this, so I apologize if it has been asked, but when you install XBMC (for this question, we will assume a windows 7 environment), 2 main folders are created ; the XBMC folder in Program Files (x86) and another in user/appdata/roaming... this is the folder I am talking about. I am calling it the "profile folder".
What I'd like to know is if I can tell XBMC to store this profile folder somewhere besides the default. Reason is I have XBMC set up on my Ouya and it only has 8GB internal memory. After some time of fiddling and caching thumbs and metadata, I've had this folder exceed 8GB many times.

I hope this is possible. I would assume there is just a basic edit of one or two files to make this happen, but who knows.

[nabz]

See http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Special_protocol and http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Path_substitution

[Pico1965]

Hello!

I use XBMC in portable mode

Code:

special://xbmc - Where ever you installed XBMC (MUST be writable).  = J:\XBMC
special://home - special://xbmc  = J:\XBMC

My goal is move my profile folder in

J:\Google drive\XBMC

I've moved all into portable_data folder in J:\Google drive\XBMC

I've create into portable_data folder a folder named userprofile
Into that folder I've created this advancedsettings.xml:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://home/</from>
    <to>j:\Google Drive\XBMC\</to>
  </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

But not work.
Why?

[nabz]

Can you try using XBMC without portable parameter? As I can read at http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMC_for_Win...table_mode, home folder is installation folder and in 'portable mode' perhaps substituion can not be done.

Enable debug logging, close XBMC , launch XBMC again and check the log. Parhaps you can find a clue

[dkplayaclub]

OK. This is a little more complicated than I thought it would be, but I think I get the idea. I do have a few questions though.
If I install XBMC, the folders should already exist in their default locations. If I then edit the advancedsettings.xml what will actually happen? Will the folder just be moved? Will a new one be created and I can move the files manually?
Can I place the "profile folder" on my NAS server?

[nabz]

You have to move files manually. I have thumbnails on my NAS and all is working fine. I never did it, but as I can read at http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Special_prot...able_Paths , the 'special://profile' and 'special://masterprofile' can be used for doing path substitution to be placed on the NAS

From http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Path_substitution

Code:

<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
    <to>PROTOCOL://YOUR_NETWORK_SHARE/xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/</to>
  </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>