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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.

Just retried using the special tags, the firetv doesn't recreate the thumbnail folder on its internal memory so at least the box is picking up the advancedsettings xml. No thumbs are loading however. I really don't understand what is going on. I can't imagine its a permissions issue since I use the same directories and auth method for the shares and they work absolutely fine. Anyone have some ideas? Was going to give this to my roommate for her birthday (which is tomorrow, been banging my head against this for about a week) there's no way I can save the thumbs locally considering the thumb folder for the complete database is in the 6gig range.

Halp plz? If someone can help me figure this out I'd be more then willing to shoot you a few bucks via paypal or donate money for a cause you are for. (Really want to gift this in its ideal state)