[gr8m8sam]

Yes, that's right. Typically local disks are several times faster than network disks, so all artwork is resized and cached locally on first use.
Then you get the faster access times. It can require a few gigs of local storage for a reasonable sized library.

You can force the thumbnail to be located on a network drive (with pathsubstitution), but you will lose some speed.

I have all my local video files on my NAS and my Library setup with a networked MySQL database to store all movie and TV info, thumbs etc. In this case will XBMC still fill the local Thumb cache? Do I need to add the pathsubs setting in advsettings.xml??

MySQL doesn't store graphics, afaik. You'll still need pathsubs.

Here's a whole page of tips on reducing the internal memory used: HOW-TO:Reduce XBMC disk space usage (wiki)

Thanks Guys. Much appreciated.

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I want to install an FTP server on my Fire TV. So far I've read that RapFox is a good one, but how do I get the actual apk file? I don't have any android devices (other than the FTV).

Here you go

http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/?id...fox.ftpsvr

Cheers!