2011-07-08, 13:21
st graveyard Wrote:I would also like to talk to you again one more time regarding the continouis growt of my XBMC dir. I have now noticed that advanced launcher does use the thumbnails dir of XBMC. When I browse through the dir, I see lot of boxscans and fanart in there from ALA. Also, since the crash yesterday, I added again the genesis collection. and I think the XBMC folder went up another 50 or 80 megs or so.Like I already explain you, it is XBMC which automatically stores thumbnails and fanarts images into its cache directory. I do not have any control of this. Also, the cache is made to quicky display thumbs and fanarts images of movies, music and related info (artist, actors, etc...) you are currently using under XBMC. It aloows to increase the speed when those thumbs and fanarts images are stored into an external/network hard drive for example.
Now 50-80 megs is a really small cache size. Mine is actually 450 megs (I have a lot of movies, musics and games). This cache directory contain the images that are displayed into XBMC, and size of these images depend on their quality. For example an HD fanart image could be hight than 1 megs in size.
I do not really understand your problem. It's like if you wanted to display thumbs, fanarts, but do not want to store them anywhere.
st graveyard Wrote:I don't know, my HD is big enough, that is no issue, but I was wondering if there is a place out there were you can suggest for a new plugin or an update of the XBMC standard? The thumbnails folder contains subfolders generated, videos and music. And outside these folders we have also "1", "2", "3" ... In these folders I find the ALA stuff.That's again XBMC which store generated addon images here. XBMC do not use a dedicated folder for addons media stuff.
st graveyard Wrote:There should be a way to clean this up. We need a coder out there who can program this not only for ALA, but also for the standard vid and music sections ... I would like to suggest this to the XBMC community, but don't know where??For suggestions you can post your requests here (for XBMC) : http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=9 or here (for a new addon) : http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=26.