Kodi PVR image caching

[mvallevand]

I noticed today that I had thousands of cached images from pvr.nextpvr on my Kodi folder system and I barely use the addon.

The caching algorithm does it by URL and for recordings there are two images per recording (cover and background) ie.

http://ip:8866/service?method=recording....g_id=17156
and
http://ip:8866/service?method=recording....g_id=17156

With one show with 10 episodes each after each session that you open that folder you end up with 20 entries in the database and 20 files in the Thumbnail cache. Ironically only two files ever get sent over and over. I suspect you will have tons more if you have NextPVR download EPG art.

The point of this is if you have a low memory machine you might want to clean your thumbnails out periodically Here is a guide I found that seems pretty simple http://www.htpcbeginner.com/clear-kodi-t...ils-cache/

Martin

[tinstaafl]

I noticed today that I had thousands of cached images from pvr.nextpvr on my Kodi folder system and I barely use the addon.

The point of this is if you have a low memory machine you might want to clean your thumbnails out periodically Here is a guide I found that seems pretty simple http://www.htpcbeginner.com/clear-kodi-t...ils-cache/

Martin

Thanks for the tip! A very useful free tool that I use to see if any Windows folders are getting huge is WinDirStat. https://windirstat.net/

It will search any of your drives and give a list of folders in an explorer-like view, with their size, from largest to smallest. You can click to expand the sub-folder view for any parent folder. A good overview that is not (but should be) provided by Windows.

There are Linux and MacOSX alternatives listed on the homepage for those not running a Windows device.