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I have a 16gb card in the Pi so I don't know about space. I have well over 90% available. If it's trying to load all channel streams at one time, then I'm guessing no. For one channel though, I suspect 14-15gb should be enough.

I haven't tried to manually set read/write/execute priv. on those directories. Shouldn't the code set those up with correct ACL authorization? I'll give it a try and let you know how that turns out. In this case, I'm (90%) pretty sure on Raspbmc "pi" is the same as "root". That would be a "chown" command, right?

The code doesn't set privileges. Created folders and files get privileges from user env: for posix see "umask". With the user "pi" type "umask". It could return "0002" meaning rwx-rwx-rx.

EDIT: But if you have launched xbmc with root before, then all folder and files are owned by root now. Now launching with a normal user you could have this problem.

OK, I'll have to do a little more research on unmask. I believe "pi" is the default root for this distro of XBMC (Raspbmc). I'd think that an install by XBMC of an addon would do it with root privileges. Let me do some digging and see what I come up with. Stay tuned...

EDIT: Here's a thought; what if I installed from the GUI and the zip file originated in the home directory? That might take the privileges of that directory. Hmmm......

root != pi . pi is a regular users that is also in the sudo list also likely in a few hardware based groups as well but I have never checked. To run something in root you have to run the command starting with sudo. If the folder is owned by root the PI user will likely not be able to read / write to the folder.

Thanks
Robert