[beergut100]

Thanks for all your work Helly. I have one question please help...

With this skin when I want to use my own custom backgrounds everything is fine until the skin updates. Once it updates all my backgrounds are removed from the skin folder... I would place them in userdata folder like most skins but Xonfluence does not allow me to navigate to userdata folder to select images. Where should I place my backgrounds to ensure that they aren't deleted every time the skin updates?

I was placing them in the backgrounds folder of the skin with the rest of the backgrounds that were already there but they always disappear when the skin updates.

Thank you so much for any response.

Hi,

I just checked your remark. I was indeed aware that custom backgrounds will disappear as the complete skin folder is overwritten when installing a new version.

Therefore it is better not to install custom changes in the skin folder (like dmcjr22 mentioned). I think the best place to do so is in userdata/addon_data/skin.xonfluence/backgrounds.

Maybe the skin won't allow you to navigate to that folder (as you mention in post 239). Then you need to make a link in your skin backgrounds folder. I will change that behavior in a future update. It has to do with navigating to the default backgrounds folder when you enter the file browser. I need to make an option for that.

Helly.

No this is a separate problem. Local paths are a real nuisance in Kodi unfortunately. I hope Helly will be able to solve it

PS: my temporary fix was to manually edit the skin settings.xml on one device to correct the paths for my standard skin setup, and then upload that to my other devices.

OK, thanks, that worked perfectly, now the only problem I have is that Add-on icons made from favourites shortcuts keep disappearing. For example, I bookmark "(a popular video add-on)
TV Shows" as a favourite, then make it into an add-on shortcut on the main menu. It seems fine, but when I put my build on a different device, the icon is sometimes missing, just like when an absolute address was used for the main add-on icon. I can't find any way of fixing this behaviour.

Another problem, which may or may not be related, is that I can't find any way of making "universal" libraries for Movie and TV Show collections. Again, they are linked to local paths, but unlike with add-on icons, I cannot find any way to change the local path to a "special" path, meaning that libraries are not transferrable from device to device. These paths do not appear in the same settings.xml as the backgrounds and add-on icons.