[burekas]

Hi,

Why I get this error message?
This folder already exists but empty: C:\Users\aUser\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\cache\scrapers\metadata.universal\

PHP Code:

18:14:51 T:5184   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::Create - Error creating C:\Users\aUser\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\cache\scrapers\metadata.universal\
18:14:51 T:5184   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::Create - Error creating special://temp/scrapers/metadata.universal/ 


PHP Code:

18:14:15 T:7152  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi
18:14:15 T:7152  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi
18:14:15 T:7152  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: C:\Users\aUser\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata
18:14:15 T:7152  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: C:\Users\aUser\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\
18:14:15 T:7152  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: C:\Users\aUser\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\cache
18:14:15 T:7152  NOTICE: The executable running is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\Kodi.exe 


Addon name: Universal Movie Scraper (My Addons -> Information providers -> Movie information)
Kodi 16.1
Windows 10, 64 bit
Administrator user

Thanks.

[burekas]

Anyone?
Does it relate to write permission or something?

[PatK]

Kinda looks like a permissions issue, Check in C:\Users\aUser\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\cache\scrapers\ if this folder exists "metadata.universal" mine is empty too. A full debug log might show something else.

[burekas]

This folder is deleted when Kodi closed and create when kodi runs.

The main reason I'm checking this error is because I have very strange issue that Kodi crashed during the wake up processes only at the first time after my PC is turned on, while from the second time and on there is no crash. And I don't know why it happens only at this first time that kodi is up.
There are no significant error in the debug log. But usually I see this error of "Error creating C:\" thing

[Gobberwart]

If everything is working correctly it sounds like this error may not be worth worrying about.

If the addon is designed to delete the folder on shut-down and recreate it on launch, then it likely doesn't check for the folder's existence before trying to create it and fails to create something that already exists. But, since it exists, the end result is the same.

You can check this yourself by closing kodi, deleting the folder if it's present, then restart kodi and see if the error is still there (it shouldn't be).

Conversely, close kodi (the folder should be deleted) then create the folder manually and restart kodi. The folder should be there again.

The addon should really handle this itself but looks like it will keep working regardless.