[elmerohueso]

I've been struggling to get my thumbnails moved over to my drobo. I'm not sure if the issue I have is that I'm attempting to do this via FTP (can't connect to my drobo via smb) I'm able to view all my media but the thumbs won't record on my NAS. I've double checked and my formatting for the sources is the same as the way I have written it out in my advancedsettings xml.

<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdataa/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>ftp://secret:stillsecret@ipaddy:port/dump/apps/Android/XBMC/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

Anything I'm obviously doing wrong? Anyone have any luck with the pathsub using FTP or AFP?

First, you can clean that path up by using special://thumbnails:

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://thumbnails</from>
    <to>ftp://secret:stillsecret@ipaddy:port/dump/apps/Android/XBMC/Thumbnails/</to>
  </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

Second, try manually copying your thumbnails to the desired destination, then restart XBMC to see if it can actually read the thumbnails. If it can read, just not write, to the NAS then you know it's a permissions problem.