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If you backup everything from the settings (addons, database, config files, etc) this should get you 99% of the way there. The issue you're having is that most of the things you are trying to restore (skin settings, view settings, etc) are stored in one file called the guisettings.xml file. XBMC keeps rather tight control over this file and it cannot be overwritten or updated while XBMC is running. The only solution is to manually take your guisettings.xml backup file and copy it to your HTPC while XBMC is off, this will load in the correct data. I realize for some systems this may be near impossible - on OpenELEC this is particularly hard as you need to use ssh to kill the XBMC process.

There is a whole bunch of info on the official forum thread about this. Right now there is a patch in the works - xbmc/xbmc#3024 - that will fix this so the addon can restore this file directly; but it has not been merged yet and will not be available widely until XBMC Gotham is released anyway. So for now you can get the job done, you'll just have to copy this one file manually.

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Thank you Rob for your response. It seems we have to wait until Gotham release and you update the program.

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Nikos

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On 14 Αυγ 2013, at 17:49, robweber [email protected] wrote:

If you backup everything from the settings (addons, database, config files, etc) this should get you 99% of the way there. The issue you're having is that most of the things you are trying to restore (skin settings, view settings, etc) are stored in one file called the guisettings.xml file. XBMC keeps rather tight control over this file and it cannot be overwritten or updated while XBMC is running. The only solution is to manually take your guisettings.xml backup file and copy it to your HTPC while XBMC is off, this will load in the correct data. I realize for some systems this may be near impossible - on OpenELEC this is particularly hard as you need to use ssh to kill the XBMC process.

There is a whole bunch of info on the official forum thread about this. Right now there is a patch in the works - xbmc/xbmc#3024 - that will fix this so the addon can restore this file directly; but it has not been merged yet and will not be available widely until XBMC Gotham is released anyway. So for now you can get the job done, you'll just have to copy this one file manually.

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