[nanouk76]

Hi, 
Just installed Kodi Nexus final on my OnePlus 5T running Lineageos 20, Android 13. The phone is rooted but, for the life of me, I cannot find where Kodi puts its settings files. I have a centralised Mysql database and need to edit advancedsetting.xml in the userdata folder. Even after adding a video source from within Kodi, I cannot find the sources.xml file. Can anyone help me in sorting this out? Thank you in advance.

[Karellen]

I cannot find where Kodi puts its settings files

Does this help... https://kodi.wiki/view/Kodi_data_folder

[izprtxqkft]

also https://kodi.wiki/view/Userdata

[nanouk76]

I cannot find where Kodi puts its settings files

Does this help... https://kodi.wiki/view/Kodi_data_folder

Thank you for taking the time but I had already checked.
The search continues...

[nanouk76]

org.xbmc.kodi sits in Android/obb but is empty

[Klojum]

and need to edit advancedsetting.xml in the userdata folder ... sources.xml file

These are not in the system/application folder. They are in Kodi's "profile" aka userdata folder.
For Android (unless some things changed with Android 11-12-13 and later), you should find them in /Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/.

[nanouk76]

and need to edit advancedsetting.xml in the userdata folder ... sources.xml file

These are not in the system/application folder. They are in Kodi's "profile" aka userdata folder.
For Android (unless some things changed with Android 11-12-13 and later), you should find them in /Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/.

I am very much aware of where files should be on Android platforms (long time Kodi user here, on Linux, Android, and Windows before I switched to Linux) but as I illustrated with a screenshot in post #4, /Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi is empty. The strangest thing is that if I add a source, the setting is persistent (as the following screenshot shows) but where is it stored?

So something must have changed. Maddening...

[Klojum]

but where is it stored?

Sorry, but that last screenshot is totally worthless. Try editing the video source location of "films", it should give you the full path.

[nanouk76]

Sorry to say but it is absolutely not worthless as the source "films" would not be there if I had not put it there... but I am happy to oblige :

Tells me nothing of where the setting is stored ...

[DarrenHill]

Also on Android the data folder (.kodi) is a hidden folder - note the dot before kodi.

So ensure that whatever file manager you are using is set to display hidden files and folders.

[nanouk76]

File manager is already set to display hidden files and folders as per the below screenshot

[MrMagic]

@nanouk76 What if you use Kodi's built-in file manager and browse to the Profile directory there? You should be able to see the .xml configuration files then.

[nanouk76]

Built-in file manager indeed lists modified sources.xml. Still no idea where the xml files are ... Now to import my advancedsettings.xml, I will have to jumps through hoops. So impractical ... I would have imagined an easier access to the userdata folder, through a regular file manager, as used to be the case.

[nanouk76]

OK, found the location:
/root/data/media/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata, not /Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata which is in Internal Storage and is empty.
Good to know for future reference.