[Thomfam]

My losing settings saga continues. After several days it seemed that all had settled down and the problem had gone away .... until today. Kodi had worked perfectly for me and had started without a problem around 10 times or more in a row without a hassle over the last 5 or so days.

Today I started Kodi, and no settings. I used my backup copy to replace the settings file which was 0kb. Restarted Kodi, .... settings had gone again! But this second time the settings file measured around 40kb, not the 59kb the working backup copy is.

I replaced the settings file again, restarted Kodi and it all went perfectly.

It therefore seems to me the problem is during the startup, rather than failing to save the settings during shutdown.

Sometimes when the settings disappear the settings.xml file measures 0kb or anything up to 45kb.

I use my own background and I have disabled the start up movie in 'my' settings so as soon as Kodi begins to startup I know whether my full settings are there or not. Once the startup movie begins to play I ready myself for a quick shutdown of Kodi and into my Files program to begin a replacement of the settings.xml file.