[karifsmith]

Hello,

I recently installed XBMC following the guide that olympia posted. I had some settings in advancedsettings.xml and things in there were being loaded just fine. The file was located at:
/home/xbmc/XBMC/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

However, later in the day (and after a few reboots), I noticed that what I had in that file was not loading.

I enabled debug logging and checked the log and sure enough it said that advancedsettings.xml was not found. But strangely enough, it was looking for the file at:
/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

I then recreated an advancedsettings.xml in that location and now things are being loaded again.

Any idea what happened? What should be the located of the file?

Thanks1

[althekiller]

I dunno what that first path is (source tree?), or where you got it, you really didn't supply enough details about your setup for a good answer. The second path is most certainly the correct one, and is the one plastered all over the forums and wiki.

[JBNY]

I had the same issue.

In the docs I went to
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMC_Online_Manual
user data foler
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=The_UserData_Folder
documentation of your specific platform

8 XBMC for Linux specific FAQ

Where are the UserData folder and the debug log?

Where are the UserData folder and the debug log
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_Submi...Bug_Report

I was not able to find the info in that spot.

So I went to the file manager in XBMC but that was the information was the wrong path.

I eventually did figure it out, but it was long search to find that basic info.

[karifsmith]

The second path is most certainly the correct one

Thanks for the confirmation! I think the first path may have indeed been the source tree as I followed this step in the guide:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO:_Inst...rom_source

Just strange that it did pick up advancedsettings.xml from the first path initially..

Anyways, this Linux noob is slowly starting to pick things up. :o

[althekiller]

Just strange that it did pick up advancedsettings.xml from the first path initially..

No it isn't, that path is ONLY for compiling XBMC. When you run make install all of the pertinent files are moved to a system wide install dir and on first run XBMC creates your user level files in ~/.xbmc/. You shouldn't be doing anything in your source tree other than updating, building and installing.

[sho]

is this info then incorrect out of date?
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_Submi..._debug_log

Or is the log not stored in userdata?
Then the FAQ is incorrect.