[RustyTongueRing]

I'd just like to know if I'm doing something wrong. I was using xbmc to stream my videos from my PC (ethernet connection). I used the scrapers to get the info for movies and tv shows. Once I had gone through almost all of my shows and movies and made corrections, I started getting the memory errors. Did I do something wrong or is this just what happens in my case? Is the only way to get around this problem to root the device and set it up for external storage?

You don't need root to use the pathsubstitution described a few posted back. The thumbnails collected after scraping will fill it up pretty easily if you have a decent sized library.

The poster used Stickmount which needs the device to be rooted. Unless the pathsub can be set up to go back to my computer's hard drive? Is there anywhere that there might be step by step instructions on how to set this up? I'm still pretty new and I have little experience in doing what was described to me a few posts back. I have no idea where or how to enter the commands the poster provided.

thanks

You're just telling xbmc where to place thumbnails. To avoid filling up your aftv you can use your network drive on your pc. Create text document and paste the below.

Save as advancedsettings.xml. Place it in /org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/. After I did this it didn't automatically move the thumbnails it just created subfolders, and I had to move artwork manually. Once you get them moved to your new folder you can delete the thumbnail folder on your box to free up that space. This may happen automatically, but it didn't for me.

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://Thumbnails/</from>
    <to>PROTOCOL://YOUR_NETWORK_SHARE/xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/</to>
  </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>