running dharma beta 2, crystal 3.6 off updated pin87a USB drive (8gig).
I turned on dds images using the advancedsettings.xml file and started going through my movies (450) and tv shows (30) to create the .dds files. I checked to see that they were being created and they were. It even ran nice and smooth - but then I rebooted.
when I rebooted, it was like a first time install of xbmc. my video calibration was all off, my smb shares had defaulted to 'workgroup', my audio was on analog/composite, my weather locations were gone etc.
my library was still there but half my tv shows had no images. I tried to re-add the images from my stored .nfo and .tbn (i.e. not from the internet) but this didn't work.
finally I decided to check the 8gb usb drive itself and discovered that it was 100% full. (/dev/sdb3 (used)100% avail(0%) )
so I used winSCP to go in and delete all the .dds files that had been created - which got me down to 79% full.
I'm including my xbmc.log but I've rebooted a few times so I don't think it will show the write errors when the disc was full but maybe someone will see something here.
XBMC.LOG
I've managed to get things back to how I had them before but I've certainly learned something.
one thing I do know is that if you've got an 8gb thumb drive and a relatively large movie collection - you should NOT go for the .dds images.
btw..is there a single configuration file that I should be backing up in case this happens again? I'd much rather just copy a single file than have to go menu diving to get all my settings back.
edit:
XBMC.OLD.LOG may have something useful in it so I'm adding it as well. I think some of the errors may be due to the fact that I hadn't realized my smb shares had been vaporized due to resetting my workgroup name.