[narcan]

At some point in the last couple of weeks it seems the P:\ path to access the userdata folder has stopped working.

In the HTTP API I was able to do the following to fetch a thumbnail:

http://[email protected]:9080/xbmcCmds/xbmcH...9aef81.tbn

Any ideas what's happened here ?

[Aenima99x]

I believe all of the Drive letter mappings were recently changed to "special://"
If you look in your log, you can see the paths that are mapped at the launch of XBMC. They are -
special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/local/share/xbmc
special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/username/.xbmc/userdata
special://home/ is mapped to: /home/username/.xbmc
special://temp/ is mapped to: /tmp/xbmc-username

[spiff]

p:\ = special://profile/

[narcan]

Ok thanks for the info.

Issue for me was that it breaks thumbnails in the XBMC iPhone remote...

In the current release of the remote you can specify the Path (because of issues with pre 8.10 releases) though in the updated submitted to Apple this has been removed.

Though with new versions, features and variants of XBMC the XBMC remote needed to get a little bit smarter about auto detecting the capabilities of the host and I guess this is an incentive to do so...