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xbmc on Ubuntu 10.04. Just a general question:
xbmc stores all it's data in .xbmc which is fine for settings but so great for stuff I actually want to find. I have a ~/Videos folder for good reason; I can find stuff in there.
When I open Navi-X and download a program it goes into:
.xbmc/addons/Navi-X/My Downloads/
That's a mouthfull and I had to use find from the terminal to find my downloads.
xbmc itself is similar:
.xbmc/media/
I would like to have xbmc ask me where to download or I would like to have default directories in my ~/Videos (etc) directories.
How do I change where xbmc downloads content?
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2011-03-14, 08:47
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-14, 08:49 by mooreted.)
Thought of that, but was hoping for something a little easier.
If I have 20 addons and they all download stuff to 20 different locations I have to create 20 symbolic links by hand.
I would rather just automatically download everything to the ~/Videos directory.
Also the xbmc file browser doesn't like hidden directories so I have to enter paths by hand even using the gui.
If I could use directories in my home directory I could browse them from the couch with my remote, which is the whole idea.
Reason #2: I am planing on building xbmc boxes for "regular" people who wont know file hierarchies so they would never think to look at the bottom of a hidden file structure.
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Then you could try using the path rewrite. But you'd need to rewrite every single custom path.
Code:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `xbmc_%`.* TO 'xbmc'@'%';
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Wow.
I'll have to sleep on this. I don't want people calling after I sell them a box with: "I just downloaded a bunch of programs and I can't find them." I can't imagine explaining .xbmc/addons/Navi-X/Downloads over the phone to a confused and angry customer.
All user downloads should go into user-accessible directories. The xbmc file browser doesn't even see the .xbmc directory at all.
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Might work:
To make the .xbmc directory browsable, create a sym link such as:
ln -s .xbmc Xbmc
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Not perfect, but that works.
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