2008-07-02, 10:32
I'm gonna piggyback off of these feature requests that I'm assuming have been collected in one thread over time my the mods 
As XBMC is being ported to more platforms it becomes increasingly more common that users have multiple copies of XBMC running and hence spend an increasing amount of time updating libraries and thumbnails, I feel this feature is becoming more crucial.
I had thought that the following approach would be cleanest:
* If autodetection is enabled and other xboxes are discovered, look for newer versions of the user data on other xboxes
* for any newer *.db or Thumbnails/ files found, copy said file to the local box
If something the equivalent of 'rsync' is not available, a possible way to implement it would be to maintain a large text file on each box which contains a sorted list of files and and the last modified time for that file. Copy any file from the remote xbox if the file does not exist or if it the remote copy is newer.
As XBMC is being ported to more platforms it becomes increasingly more common that users have multiple copies of XBMC running and hence spend an increasing amount of time updating libraries and thumbnails, I feel this feature is becoming more crucial.
I had thought that the following approach would be cleanest:
* If autodetection is enabled and other xboxes are discovered, look for newer versions of the user data on other xboxes
* for any newer *.db or Thumbnails/ files found, copy said file to the local box
If something the equivalent of 'rsync' is not available, a possible way to implement it would be to maintain a large text file on each box which contains a sorted list of files and and the last modified time for that file. Copy any file from the remote xbox if the file does not exist or if it the remote copy is newer.
