2015-05-27, 22:06
This tool is especially useful if you are on a low storage device and use any streaming add-ons. Because Kodi downloads lots and lots of fanart and thumbnails as you browse through those add-ons - stuff you may never even look at again. Eventually it piles up and needs to be cleaned. Once these files grow to be very large they can max out your memory. That's why my device was crashing, going back to confluence skin, freezing, etc. When I found out that the installation was huge I did some digging and found the culprits. When I started manually clearing them from the file manager I stopped having those issues. So now I've created a tool that allows me to do this with just a few clicks. So I've got a quick script that allows you to manage some of your Android, Linux or ATV2 memory from within Kodi. Please try it out and let me know if it works for you. In the future I will be making a service that will read your HDD and warn you when space is low to remind you to use the tool.
What this tool does:
Note: None of these options affect any Kodi settings or skins or remove any add-ons. Your installation will remain the same - it just gets rid of some bloat. There are no news feeds that link to my website or any other crap and it runs some very basic commands to allow you to clean up your installation from within Kodi.
You will have 4 options once inside the tool. You can use one, two, all, or none.
Delete Cache
-Clears Kodi cache
Delete Thumbnails
-Deletes Thumbnails Folder-----|
-Deletes Textures13.db----------| (These two files can become absurdly large)
-Upon Kodi restart it will rebuild thumbnail library with only the files needed.
Purge Packages
-Deletes old add-on versions. As Kodi updates add-ons, it saves the old zip files in case you'd like to roll back. These files get removed with this command
Clear All
-Performs all 3 options, then automatically exits Kodi so that upon restart it will automatically rebuild thumbnail library
Changelog:
1.0.8
-Added 4th option, 'Clear All'
1.0.6
-Added 'automatic exit' after deleting thumbnails
-Code cosmetics
1.0.2
-Added conditions for ATV2
1.0.1
-Added Delete Cache
-Added Purge Packages
1.0.0
-Initial python for deleting thumbnails
Known Errors:
-"Delete Thumbnails" option does not work on Windows. Throws exceptions.WindowsError
'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process'
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What this tool does:
Note: None of these options affect any Kodi settings or skins or remove any add-ons. Your installation will remain the same - it just gets rid of some bloat. There are no news feeds that link to my website or any other crap and it runs some very basic commands to allow you to clean up your installation from within Kodi.
You will have 4 options once inside the tool. You can use one, two, all, or none.
Delete Cache
-Clears Kodi cache
Delete Thumbnails
-Deletes Thumbnails Folder-----|
-Deletes Textures13.db----------| (These two files can become absurdly large)
-Upon Kodi restart it will rebuild thumbnail library with only the files needed.
Purge Packages
-Deletes old add-on versions. As Kodi updates add-ons, it saves the old zip files in case you'd like to roll back. These files get removed with this command
Clear All
-Performs all 3 options, then automatically exits Kodi so that upon restart it will automatically rebuild thumbnail library
Changelog:
1.0.8
-Added 4th option, 'Clear All'
1.0.6
-Added 'automatic exit' after deleting thumbnails
-Code cosmetics
1.0.2
-Added conditions for ATV2
1.0.1
-Added Delete Cache
-Added Purge Packages
1.0.0
-Initial python for deleting thumbnails
Known Errors:
-"Delete Thumbnails" option does not work on Windows. Throws exceptions.WindowsError
'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process'
Download Offline