Android Moving XBMC user data folder to ext sdcard ?
#16
Hi All
I'm trying to move my thumb nails off a tv box onto an external sd card. I used ES explorer to get the paths and placed an advancedsettings xml file into the userdata folder. Unfortunately i cannot get it to work. here is the file contents, can anyone suggest what i am doing wrong.
btw i tried various, including mnt in front of sdcard
Thanks in advance

<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>/sdcard/Android/data/com.semperpax.spmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/<from>
<to>/mnt/extsd/Thumbnails/<to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>
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#17
Not really sure that this is your problem, but the closing parts of <from> and <to> should be </from> and </to>
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#18
(2014-09-19, 10:22)bryanmohr Wrote: Not really sure that this is your problem, but the closing parts of <from> and <to> should be </from> and </to>

Thanks. schoolboy error
unfortunately it made no difference
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#19
Post a debug log (wiki). That might give us some clues.
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#20
(2014-09-19, 19:23)Ned Scott Wrote: Post a debug log (wiki). That might give us some clues.

Hi

Right, rather than screw up my android tv anymore, i installed spmc to my tablet and used the following paths

Code:
<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
  <substitute>
    <from>/storage/sdcard0/Android/data/com.semperpax.spmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails</from>
      <to>/storage/sdcard1/Thumbnails</to>
  </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

I uploaded the log ID 298330


does this help?
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#21
Hi All

I finally got it working with

<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>/mnt/extsd/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

I still don't understand why
<from>special://profile/Thumbnails/</from> works and not the path, the log seems to indicate that the change was made.

unless it's because it is a system path and must be used with the special command?

Thanks
Scissors
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#22
Because that's how XBMC works. XBMC looks at the special path rather than looking at the full path, because those change for each OS.
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