[twotone8]

I just discovered that xbmc is generating some thumbnails with astronomically huge file sizes. what's the deal?

C:\XBMC\portable_data\userdata\Thumbnails\5\56a2d551.png = 768 MB
C:\XBMC\portable_data\userdata\Thumbnails\b\bd549ddf.png = 699 MB

there seems to be six or severn HUGE .png files in these thumbnail directories. I'm completely puzzled. Can I get rid of these files?

My portable XBMC directory is now about 6 GB, and that's 80% due to these thumbnail files, according to WinDirStat.

[jmarshall]

It shouldn't generate files that big. If it does it indicates there are seriously huge images being downloaded from the web or something.

You need to find the source of those files. The quickest way is to look in the Textures.db database using something like SqliteSpy, and find the original url that are linked to those cached items.

Once you have that, how large are the original images? What are they?

There may be a bug in the image writing code.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[twotone8]

weird. one is coming from
http://www662.megaupload.com/files/6d3ce.../cdart.png

i assume this is from the icefilms plugin. when i plug it into the web browser it states:

The image “http://www662.megaupload.com/files/6d3ce...png” cannot be displayed because it contains errors.

i assume it's a bad pic somewhere in the database. not quite sure what to do about it.

thanx for the info though.

[chocolateboy]

Are you using (i.e. does this error occur with) the Aeon Nox skin?