2013-02-06, 15:13
(2013-02-06, 14:35)bakito Wrote:No, no... that's not a silly idea. Actually I'm trying to see what is going wrong, trying to fix any possible errors. My problem actually is that the bug do not occurs at any time, and it is complicated to reproduce it. I can spend more than 1 hour, editing/deleting/creating/scraping launcher and items without any problem... and suddenly... the content of the launchers. xml file it empty. But even with the XBMC debug mode activated, I cannot see any reported error. The error that everybody report me actually is due to the fact that the launchers.xml file is empty... The error message is not the cause, but the consequence.(2012-08-21, 10:17)bakito Wrote: hello angel
I came again with my problem of launchers that disappears...
but I know why now...I try the "launcher tool" add on to get rid of explorer at start up and ....boom!
I check and it's my launcher from external drive that disappears...
I guess that when windows launch without explorer it doesn't check for this particular drive and then they vanished from the launcher.xml ( litteraly vanished because it goes from 1,5 mega to 0,700 mega )
so ....well not really a problem but launcher.xml remplace itself wich is surprising..well for me as I understand nothing to code
is there a way to make it "no rewritable" ?
anyway it's not very important
you're addon rules!!
and sometime I wonder why it's not a "normal" fonction for xbmc because it is REALLY convinient
thx for your great work
cheers
hello angel, some times ago I posted about launcher that disapeared, I don't know if that help but I quote that post ( and I think there are some others maybe some with log, I don't remember ) about this problem since many user have come up with the same problem recently...just to say it's not a new problem so maybe their something hiding in the code for a long time and not especialy in the last version of your ( great ) add on, if I'm correct I got this problem with eden but not with darma, since then I had this bug again ( not that not all my launcher disapear but just some of them ) but now I make regulary back up of my launcher.xml to avoid this problem, maybe a temporaly fix would be to make an automatic copy of the old launcher before anything is change to the current one ,like launcher.old, with an option to put it back if their was a problem...maybe it's silly, I don't know...anyway I hope it help ( even a little)
cheers
So, the idea to make backup of the launchers.xml file once it is modified have reach my mind. I think that's what I'm going to work on now. It will avoid user to completely lost their data, and give me time to definitively fix this bug.
I'm really sorry for all the problem bring by this bug. If any of you have an idea what could happen... an help will be really welcome.