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05:52:50.737 T:3884 NOTICE: Skin Helper Backgrounds --> BackgroundsUpdater - started
05:52:52.758 T:1472 NOTICE: Skin Helper Widgets --> Backgroundservice started
05:52:52.765 T:1732 NOTICE: [plugin.video.youtube] Startup: detected Krypton (Kodi-17.1), setting DASH_SUPPORT_BUILTIN = False, DASH_SUPPORT_ADDON = True
05:52:52.848 T:9440 NOTICE: Skin Helper Service --> WebService - start helper webservice on port 52307
05:52:52.848 T:9484 NOTICE: Skin Helper Service --> Skin Helper Service version 1.1.13 started
05:52:59.218 T:3884 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <class 'xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError'>
Error Contents: reference to invalid character number: line 74, column 21
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Homme5\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.skin.helper.backgrounds\service.py", line 10, in <module>
BackgroundsUpdater().run()
File "C:\Users\Homme5\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.skin.helper.backgrounds\resources\lib\backgrounds_updater.py", line 84, in run
self.smartshortcuts.build_smartshortcuts()
File "C:\Users\Homme5\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.skin.helper.backgrounds\resources\lib\smartshortcuts.py", line 47, in build_smartshortcuts
self.favourites_nodes()
File "C:\Users\Homme5\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.skin.helper.backgrounds\resources\lib\smartshortcuts.py", line 245, in favourites_nodes
favs = KodiDb().favourites()
File "C:\Users\Homme5\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.module.metadatautils\lib\helpers\kodidb.py", line 200, in favourites
items = self.get_favourites_from_file()
File "C:\Users\Homme5\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.module.metadatautils\lib\helpers\kodidb.py", line 302, in get_favourites_from_file
doc = parse(favourites_path)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\17.1\system\python\Lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\17.1\system\python\Lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\17.1\system\python\Lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
ExpatError: reference to invalid character number: line 74, column 21

-->End of Python script error report<--

it sucks

Please can you send the link to the skin you created? I bet it must be fantastic!!