2018-07-09, 00:19
@barev Let's hold off on the clean install for now, a full log is much easier to create.
Artwork Beef works by ascribing the links to the proper images. Kodi then retrieves and caches the images as necessary, keeping a proper record of what is where. The process can cause some delays and black screens until the images are all cached and loaded. I thought that perhaps you'd used Artwork Downloader which had the centralised folder option and that something broke when you made the switch. However, even if you had, Artwork Beef has compatibility settings that work in such cases, which should have pointed the skin in the right direction. The thing is, none of this in itself should cause any issues at all.
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the nature of the issue, especially these other add-ons that also produce errors. The skin only contains calls standard add-on calls, and not really that many hardcoded paths, certainly nothing that ought to be expected to cause massive errors. I'd like to know more about the overall behaviour. What do you see while you're in the skin? Does the interface appear normal? Are there any error notifications popping up? While browsing the library, is all the fanart properly displayed? Does the internal info screen work like it should, etc? When you're in the add-ons menu, can you open and change add-on settings, etc? Anything else you can think of to describe your experience might be helpful.
Artwork Beef works by ascribing the links to the proper images. Kodi then retrieves and caches the images as necessary, keeping a proper record of what is where. The process can cause some delays and black screens until the images are all cached and loaded. I thought that perhaps you'd used Artwork Downloader which had the centralised folder option and that something broke when you made the switch. However, even if you had, Artwork Beef has compatibility settings that work in such cases, which should have pointed the skin in the right direction. The thing is, none of this in itself should cause any issues at all.
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the nature of the issue, especially these other add-ons that also produce errors. The skin only contains calls standard add-on calls, and not really that many hardcoded paths, certainly nothing that ought to be expected to cause massive errors. I'd like to know more about the overall behaviour. What do you see while you're in the skin? Does the interface appear normal? Are there any error notifications popping up? While browsing the library, is all the fanart properly displayed? Does the internal info screen work like it should, etc? When you're in the add-ons menu, can you open and change add-on settings, etc? Anything else you can think of to describe your experience might be helpful.