2011-07-08, 17:03
st graveyard Wrote:Thanks for the reply, Angel.No problem...
I will check those links tonight.
Just to make things clear, to see if we are talking about the same thing here. I'm not talking about the cache dir in the add_on folder for ALA, I'm talking about the thumbnails folder of USERS/ROAMING/XBMC ... (something like that).
80 megs is indeed not much, but what I mean is ... I removed my genesis collection, and added a new launcher and filled this up with the genesis roms, thumbs and fanart. I have done this numerous times in the past (to try things out) and this action makes the XBMC thumbnails folder bigger. Adding a new launcher and filling it up, adds another 80 megs or so to this folder (not the add_on cache folder). And I'm talking about adding the same collection, for the same system, with the same thumbs and fanarts as before...
Now, if this is the way XBMC works, than there is nothing we can do. I don't have any criticism on ALA, don't take this the wrong way.
What I mean is ... My thumbs and fanart for my roms are stored nicely on an external drive. Apart from the launchers xml, and some other inner workings for ALA, I don't see why the XBMC folder should get bigger and bigger, as all of the media is stored on a seperate drive.
The same goes for movies and music. You download a lot of stuff, but in the end, there is only 1 fanart and 1 thumb for a movie or an album used in XBMC. However, the thumbnails folder contains everything that was ever displayed in XBMC, and this is never ever removed currently (the standard cleanup functions in XBMC work like sh*t).
Currently, my XBMC folder has grown to 2.8 giga. And it grows quickly once you start building your rom collection in ALA.
I will check out the links you provided and see if there are other people out there who have the same problem with the standard working of XBMC.
Hope you understand, again, no criticism to the fantastic ALA tool ... I love it and think it is the best plugin for XBMC!
Thanks,
Grave