2017-04-08, 22:22
I've searched for the answer to this, and it's not often a tech problem has me losing my temper, but you'll understand I'm sure.
Android Box, uninstalled Kodi 16.1 (working with two profiles using Xonfluence but wanted to upgrade) and installed Krypton (no upgrade option via play store).
Krypton installed fine, added the repo for Xonfluence (best skin of all) no issue, and installed Xonfluence. Set up menus, shortcuts and backgrounds etc. All good. Decided to add another profile, tried to add some shortcuts but found that my addons under that profile had been disabled. I re-enabled them, but then the text for the settings on Xonfluence disappeared? Updated Xonfluence, text came back, but after a restart it was gone again. Then odd things happening in the main profile. So I uninstalled the lot including krypton. That was yesterday.
Tried again twice today, this time, I got as far as no addons getting disabled when creating the other profile. Both profiles having the layouts exactly how I wanted them, then clicked exit, and went back in to Kodi to check. The master profile had then had it's settings overwritten by the additional profile. Spent all day on this, and it takes time to set up Xonfluence, so to lose all of the work the third time had me cursing. It seems to be when I'm using the option to save settings and reload on Xonfluence. I read elsewhere that the skin settings might be getting cached, as a last ditch attempt I stopped file caching.
I did a full backup yesterday, I restored that, and it made no difference whatsoever which is strange. I use the Backup tool from the Kodi repository. I don't understand what is happening at all. I've made several backups, before and after the additional profile and some files along the way. All of this comes after buying a new box, because I ran into storage issues on the previous box with backups. My partner and I bought the box half each which is why two profiles are needed.
Please, please help me get this sorted quickly, or some guidance on how to stop this happening, or how to restore skin settings quickly if this happens once more.
Android Box, uninstalled Kodi 16.1 (working with two profiles using Xonfluence but wanted to upgrade) and installed Krypton (no upgrade option via play store).
Krypton installed fine, added the repo for Xonfluence (best skin of all) no issue, and installed Xonfluence. Set up menus, shortcuts and backgrounds etc. All good. Decided to add another profile, tried to add some shortcuts but found that my addons under that profile had been disabled. I re-enabled them, but then the text for the settings on Xonfluence disappeared? Updated Xonfluence, text came back, but after a restart it was gone again. Then odd things happening in the main profile. So I uninstalled the lot including krypton. That was yesterday.
Tried again twice today, this time, I got as far as no addons getting disabled when creating the other profile. Both profiles having the layouts exactly how I wanted them, then clicked exit, and went back in to Kodi to check. The master profile had then had it's settings overwritten by the additional profile. Spent all day on this, and it takes time to set up Xonfluence, so to lose all of the work the third time had me cursing. It seems to be when I'm using the option to save settings and reload on Xonfluence. I read elsewhere that the skin settings might be getting cached, as a last ditch attempt I stopped file caching.
I did a full backup yesterday, I restored that, and it made no difference whatsoever which is strange. I use the Backup tool from the Kodi repository. I don't understand what is happening at all. I've made several backups, before and after the additional profile and some files along the way. All of this comes after buying a new box, because I ran into storage issues on the previous box with backups. My partner and I bought the box half each which is why two profiles are needed.
Please, please help me get this sorted quickly, or some guidance on how to stop this happening, or how to restore skin settings quickly if this happens once more.