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My main OS drive is a modest 40gig, running vista, AV, and a couple of other programs that are needed, i have it down to the bsic for my htpc, however, this morning space went down to 11mb free, i have managed to get space back to 238mb, but woould like more.
I see that xbmc has by far the greatest use, being 16GB in the userdata-****-appdata-roaming-xbmc-userdata-thumbnails.
This file is 13gb, is there anything i can delete thats not needed or is another hardrive for the OS a better option!
Thanks guys
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There are various options. Assuming you have a large D: drive the simplest solution is to move the XBMC from C:\Program Files to D:\XBMC and then run XBMC in portable mode. That will keep the user data in D:\XBMC\portable_data. Just copy the contents of appdata\XBMC to D:\XBMC\portable_data to transfer over your library and all your settings.
Alternatively you can use a symlink to make appdata\XBMC point to a directory on the D: drive.
Finally if you upgrade to a nightly build, this has a way of storing data in directories of your choice.
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2011-12-01, 12:30
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-01, 12:31 by falafael.)
hi jr, thanks for the reply, ok, so i just copy the entire xbmc folder from c: to another hard drive? (i need to because now i only have 2MB free, and it's affecting icefilms playback i think)
Moving the folder is not a problem, i just don't want to screw my huge library up in the process!
Could you enlighten me as to how i go about running xbmc in portable mode, as i have never used this way before!
Thanks for the help!
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Hi, ok, i have copied the program file xbmc to drive 'M', but as for the C: appdata file, where does that go on drive 'M', cos i cant find no appdata folder on 'M' to copy it into?
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Assuming you've copied the XBMC program folder to M:\XBMC, create a shortcut or modify the existing shortcut to run:
M:\XBMX\XBMC.exe /p
Double click the shortcut and XBMC will run with default settings. Close XBMC. Look in M:\XBMC and there will be a folder called portable_data (i.e. M:\XBMC\portable_data). Look in that folder and you'll see folders called addons, meida, etc.
Now press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:
"%appdata%\xbmc"
(including the quotes) and click OK and an Explorer window will open showing the same set of folders: addons, cache, media, sounds, etc. Select and copy all these folders and paste them into M:\XBMC\portable_data. Answer yes when Explorer asks if you want to replace the existing folders.
Now if you run M:\XBMC\XBMC.exe -p it should start will all your settings.
When you run M:\XBMC\XBMC.exe -p the folder M:\XBMC\portable_data plays the same roles as %appdata%\xbmc.
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Thanks for the reply, am just in from work so will get cracking in the morning!, Thanks again JR!
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2011-12-02, 10:44
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-02, 11:13 by falafael.)
Ok, i will know in 1 hour 27 if this is successful!
btw, thanks fungify
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Just to say thanks JR for your assistance, now XBMC has 200GB free space to play about with!!
Thanks!
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i was wondering, when i cone to upgrade to eden, will the set up with portable data present a problem??
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thanks, sill now wait for stable eden!