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Update messed up my work - Holmer - 2011-06-08
I did some modifications to the night skin, it took me several hours.
Today I started XBMC and the skin was updated. All my work is gone now.
Is it possible to get the last version before the update back?
- isamu.dragon - 2011-06-08
yes, but not with your customized settings. If you want to have a custom version, you might want to change the name of your skin (skin.night.custom) and edit the addon.xml to say skin.night.custom instead of skin.night.
- darkscout - 2011-06-08
It's gone. Poof, disappeared. When it updates it unzips the data to the folder, everything is over written.
If you want to do custom stuff, fork it.
- Holmer - 2011-06-08
What if the updated version crashes XBMC? Is it possible to make a backup within the update process (saving the old addon files in a zip file)?
- isamu.dragon - 2011-06-08
Holmer Wrote:What if the updated version crashes XBMC? Is it possible to make a backup within the update process (saving the old addon files in a zip file)?
nope
- Holmer - 2011-06-12
isamu.dragon Wrote:nopeNot good.
But at least I found a backup of my mod.
I made a copy of the "skin.night" folder, called ist "skin.night2" and changed its id and name in the addon.xml.
Is that enough to tell XBMC not to update this skin?
- jmarshall - 2011-06-12
Yes.
- >>X<< - 2011-06-12
Why don't you just go into addons and turn off auto update and just leave notify enabled ?
Its good practice to always make a backup not just when your finished but before you change something
- el_cabong - 2011-07-05
I think i may be missing something, but after changing the skin folder name and in addon.xml, I cant get the skin to work in xbmc. It doesnt show up in the skin browser even after editing the skin name in guisettings.xml.
edit: must have been a typo, tried again on a test build and it worked fine.
- jmarshall - 2011-07-05
The debug log will probably tell you why.