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I am using the Path Substitution function in advancedsettings.xml to centralize my Thumbnails folder to my NAS.

I have XBMC installed on Arch Linux. this is what my file looks like:

<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from></from>
<to>/mnt/media/Artwork</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

I have locally mounted my nas share as an NFS so thats easy but I dont know the format to show my from address.

How should it be shown to point at the default thumbnails directory for all video artwork?

What is the default path for xbmc thumbnails directory that I should put in the <from></from> section?

I have setup advancedsettings.xml to look like the following:

<advancedsettings>
<videodatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.178.21</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbmc</pass>
<name>xbmc_video</name>
</videodatabase>

<musicdatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.178.21</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbmc</pass>
<name>xbmc_music</name>
</musicdatabase>

<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>/mnt/media/Artwork/Thumbnails</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

Im using latest stable version of XBMC on arch linux.

The Artwork is not showing... am i missing something?

try "manually" putting special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/foo.tbn through your substitute...

spiff Wrote:try "manually" putting special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/foo.tbn through your substitute...

I ended up just using NFS... so much easyer

than noticing the missing slash at end? to each his own

dac9 Wrote:I ended up just using NFS... so much easyer

Care to explain how you did it?

I'm trying to access my Thumbnails folder using nfs and have been unable to do it.

Thanks,

Zenshi.