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Still can't get it to work, here is what I am doing;
Server
1. go into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata/thumbnails and copy this folder to my M: drive which is shared and seen by my two clients machines over a 1gb wired network.
2. go back into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata/thumbnails and rename the thumbnails directory to thumbnails.old
Client
1. go into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata and rename thumbnails directory to thumbnails.old
2. I then go into windows explorer and map network to the location of thumbnails on the shared M: drive, I map it to drive Z:
3. I then go into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata and create a symbolic link to the shared thumbnails folder by typing:
mklink /d Thumbnails Z:\Thumbnails
I then start up XBMC on the client and no thumbnails are appearing,e ven though the client machine can see the shared thumbnails folder M: in windows, for some reason XBMC is not seeing it.
I am running march 7th nightly build of Dharma 10.0, cirrus extended skin and windows 7.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TC
Loft - Intel I5-3570K, Asus P8Z77-LX, Corsair 16GB DDR3, AMD HD 7700, AOC 27" LCD
Bedroom - Intel I3-530, Intel DH55HC, Corsair 4GB DDR3, Nvidia G610, Samsung 37" HDTV
Living Room - Intel E8400, Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia G610, Samsung 52" HDTV
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Still can't get it to work, here is what I am doing;
Server
1. go into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata/thumbnails and copy this folder to my M: drive which is shared and seen by my two clients machines over a 1gb wired network.
2. go back into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata/thumbnails and rename the thumbnails directory to thumbnails.old
Client
1. go into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata and rename thumbnails directory to thumbnails.old
2. I then go into windows explorer and map a new network drive letter to the location of thumbnails on the shared M: drive, I map it to Z:
3. I then go into users/terry/appdata/roaming/xbmc/userdata and create a symbolic link to the shared thumbnails folder by typing:
mklink /d Thumbnails Z:\Thumbnails
I then start up XBMC on the client and no thumbnails are appearing, even though the client machine can see the shared thumbnails folder M: in windows, for some reason XBMC is not seeing it.
I am running march 7th nightly build of Dharma 10.0, cirrus extended skin and windows 7.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TC
Loft - Intel I5-3570K, Asus P8Z77-LX, Corsair 16GB DDR3, AMD HD 7700, AOC 27" LCD
Bedroom - Intel I3-530, Intel DH55HC, Corsair 4GB DDR3, Nvidia G610, Samsung 37" HDTV
Living Room - Intel E8400, Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia G610, Samsung 52" HDTV
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tcman47, That looks right to me. Can you post a debug log of when XBMC first starts up after you've created the symbolic link?
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I realize this is a little older, but you may need to launch Command Prompt with Admin rights. LMK if you need help still.
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ok does this thumbnail share for the use of
a) having already scrapped the folder on the server and all the info is there, the other say 'clients' when they add the source you dont have to scrap and re download again
it automatically picks them from the server as the mklink folder?
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Does anyone experience any lag/performance issues using this approach? It seemed to me that my AppleTV2 was taking very long to pull the thumbnails from my server (over a minute). I was only using a view with 7 thumbnails/posters. I used pathsubstitution and my backbone is 10/100. Maybe that's why?