[mymymy]

I had a power supply issue that would turn my machine off randomly, which was usually whilst xbmc was running.

When I replaced the power supply and booted up and started xbmc I now don't seem to have either of the profiles I had before. I used to have a 'kids' and 'master user' now it just logs straight in. My settings were all defaulted, so I saw the default skin rather than transparency! which it was set to before. But I seem to have all the movies/tv shows of the old 'master user'.

Why would this happen? is there anything I can do to get the other profile back?

I still have the directory \AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\profiles\kids so how do I make it recognize that profile again?

[jmarshall]

What does \AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\profiles.xml contain?

[mymymy]

<profiles>
<lastloaded>0</lastloaded>
<useloginscreen>false</useloginscreen>
<profile>
<name>Master user</name>
<directory pathversion="1">special://masterprofile/</directory>
<thumbnail pathversion="1"></thumbnail>
<hasdatabases>true</hasdatabases>
<canwritedatabases>true</canwritedatabases>
<hassources>true</hassources>
<canwritesources>true</canwritesources>
<lockaddonmanager>false</lockaddonmanager>
<locksettings>false</locksettings>
<lockfiles>false</lockfiles>
<lockmusic>false</lockmusic>
<lockvideo>false</lockvideo>
<lockpictures>false</lockpictures>
<lockprograms>false</lockprograms>
<lockmode>0</lockmode>
<lockcode></lockcode>
<lastdate></lastdate>
</profile>
</profiles>

presumably this is the cause of my pain, and there is not much I can do to get it back apart from recreate the 'kids' profile again?

[jmarshall]

Hmm, safest way would be to:

1. Create new profile exactly the same, name it "new_kids".
2. Exit out of XBMC.
3. Edit profiles.xml to point it to kids rather than new_kids.
4. Delete new_kids folder.

Cheers,
Jonathan