2011-07-02, 15:41
st graveyard Wrote:Angel, I've noticed that adding the game library in ALA/XBMC also enlarges the XBMC folder in the user dir on the C drive. I was wondering, is there a way to clean this up? I know there is an plugin available to clean up the thumbs for movies and music, but is there also a way to clean up this dir of all the things added by ALA?When you use Advanced Launcher data are effectively stored into the user directory and are managed by Advanced Launcher and XBMC.
My XBMC folder is already 2.5gigs and growing because I add an emu, then find out it is not ok, remove it, add it again ... Is there a solution?
Only things that Advanced Launcher directly save into the user directory is game info into the xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/launchers.xml file and temporary images (scrapped using thumbnails or images scrapper) into its cache directory : xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/cache. This cache is normally cleaned after use.
All the other images, as for movies and music thumbnails are managed by XBMC. Thumbnails are stored into xbmc/userdata/thumbnails subdirectories and path to these thumbnails are stored into xbmc/userdata/Database/Addons.db file. And it is these images that take most of drive place.
The problem is that XBMC save movies, music and addons images (thumbnails and fanart) into same directories. So it is not easy to found and remove them. What is the plugin you use to clean up the thumbs for movies and music? Maybe it will be possible to modify it to also clean thumbs from addons.