[dm21912]

What is everyone doing about the limited space on the Firestick? I get constant low storage warnings and poor performance as a result.

I have nothing installed but unremovable system apps and Kodi.

I've tried moving Kodi to external thumb drive, but then Kodi's performance is just terrible.

I just have all library content on Network drive which i grab by SMB.
Artist info, album art etc is on network
And thumbnails i have sent to the network drive using path substitution. 

thumbnails are the biggest culprit.

Thanks...so is over network faster than from USB thumb drive plugged into Fire TV? Kodi is for all practical purposes unusable when I moved it to the thumb drive.

My library content has always been on the network.

Can you tell me what the default path is for the thumbnails when installed on the Fire TV?

I dont know if its faster than USB, but I havnt had any problems storing my thumbnails on my network (and with my thumbnail folder currently stands at about 3gb, I really should clean in)

thumbnails should be in your profile directory

so android>data>org.xbmc.kodi>files>userdata>thumbnails (or Thumbnails - not sure if its capitalised by default)..

I just sub the path in advancedsettings.xml

<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails</from>
<to>smb://DSL-AC56U/sdb1/Kodi/Thumbnails</to>
</substitute>

Off my device and on network drive I have

+ All library items
+ All thumbnails
+ Artist Info folder, Lyrics etc


My firestick only has Kodi, Facebook, Youtube and a couple of other things and sits at about 1.5gb free


if it drops below 1gb i clean out the kodi packages folder. So for me just keeping that handful of things on the network is more than enough to keep plenty of space without having to do dirty hacks to move all userdata to usb drives