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I have been searching the answer for days at no avail, so hope someone here can give me the answer.
If you create a advanced settings file, which user permissions should the file be given so that Kodi can apply the settings inside correctly?
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I would go with 644 or even 777.
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I know that 777 is excessive and 644 should be more than fine, but in case of any problems, he or she can try it. It is not recommended though.
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Why are we talking user permissions under Android anyway? The user who is running Kodi should be the one who creates the file, and then there's no issue.
Also that file is read at start-up by Kodi, but there's nothing written back to it afterwards. If things need changing or updating, then it's done manually outside of Kodi. It's a settings file, not a storage file.
It's only when we start getting add-ons etc which try to "simplify" that when we can get the file being written to whilst Kodi is running, but that's a different scenario and in most cases not something that should be done anyway for those who don't know what they're doing. And even in those cases the same comment above applies.
Or are we talking about some other OS or scenario here, at which point this thread may be in the wrong place.