[abcdefghi]

A couple days ago we had some storms blow through here, which caused my power to flicker multiple times and caused my HTPC to shut down. Once I got it back up and running, several applications that were open had become corrupted and Kodi would no longer start with the error message:
"Kodi: Error unable to create application. Exiting"

I tried a couple troubleshooting steps, but nothing worked. I then uninstalled Kodi but left my profile folder. Re-installed Kodi and I got the same error. At that point I went to the appdata folder on my PC and renamed the Kodi folder under my username as "Kodi_OLD" then tried to open Kodi again and it worked and created a new Kodi folder under AppData. However, it's all back to the default settings as if it were a fresh install. I copied the folders from the _OLD version into the new one and it failed (I pretty much expected this).

Is there a way I can recover my set up? or I am I forced to re-configure everything? For example on Sonarr I simply had to delete a single file (I forget exactly what it was) and then I was back up and running. I am OK to have to re-configure the set up, but would be happier if I could somehow recover my settings.

Thanks.

[Martijn]

most likely it's in the display or audio section of the guisettings.xml file
removing that section could solve it

[abcdefghi]

Thanks for the reply, tried that but no luck. So I said screw it, started with a fresh install.

But, now I cannot get any add ons, in fact I can't even change skin. The get more skins button is gone, if I go to add ons, install from repository then I get a message:

Couldn't connect to remote server.

Checking the system info in kodi it says I am connected to the Internet and the PC can browse fine.

Any ideas? Is there a server problem on the Kodi side? Odd that the get more skins button is missing and I only see Confluence and Re-touched, usually Aeon also shows up.

[seedubxj]

I'm having the same issue. I've started a thread as well.