2012-09-09, 11:08
I have been using XBMC for a couple of years now and I love it. I never tried using profiles untill now. The problem I'm having is this:
I'm trying to create 3 different profiles, eg: user1, user2, user3. I want all the profiles to have separate databases and sources (separate watched status, bookmarks, etc), but I want ALL 3 profiles to share cached thumbnails. But it seems that every new profile with separate "media info" and "media sources" have separate thumbnails folder/cache as well. That's really not good at all, as scanning media to library takes forever, when all the thumbs need to be cached again. Further more, it's a waste of space (quite significant).
Questions:
I'm trying to create 3 different profiles, eg: user1, user2, user3. I want all the profiles to have separate databases and sources (separate watched status, bookmarks, etc), but I want ALL 3 profiles to share cached thumbnails. But it seems that every new profile with separate "media info" and "media sources" have separate thumbnails folder/cache as well. That's really not good at all, as scanning media to library takes forever, when all the thumbs need to be cached again. Further more, it's a waste of space (quite significant).
Questions:
- Am I missing something, or is there any simple way to share cached thumbs between profiles on the same machine (same xbmc)? I mean, all 3 databases have the same files (same file paths, iirc that is used to get hashes) in the library.
- Is it possible to have SOME profiles sharing thumbs and some - not. Eg: user1 and user2 share thumbs, but user3 has everything separate.
- All I could find on the wiki and forums is Path Substitution or Symbolic Links. Are these the only 2 options for this problem?
- If answer 3 is yes, then which one is better? I'm on windows7.