[braz]

Anything you put in the skin's folder will be overwritten when the skin updates. This is true for every skin, not just Mimic. Recommend putting your background images somewhere else on your harddrive so they don't get overwritten.

my question is when you go to backgrounds on your skin setting up the backgrounds for each section,,there is no way you can browse the image from the kodi home folder,,either addons ,media or userdata? its only for the global single background where the home folder appears to be there,not when you like a background for each section i have on my set up!what is the best way to have your backgrounds saved even when your skin updates,,and offcourse i want not to loose backgrounds on any device i put my skin set up on??on isengard there was not a problem ,as its just just editing the guisettings.xml file,using special protocol,,,special://home.. thanks ..very good skin i like it,,good job as well..keep it up..

What I have done is created a folder called backgrounds in my userdata folder and put all my images in there. Then in addons/skin.mimic/shortcuts edit the overrides.xml file by putting this line unerneath <!-- Backgrounds --> :

<backgroundBrowse default="special://home/userdata/backgrounds">True</backgroundBrowse>

This then enables that folder to be seen when selecting background images and the userdata folder won't be overwritten.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding, there is no need to edit any skin files. You just have to add your background folder as a source using File Manager and it will show up in the background dialog when editing the main menu.