Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> This is a known problem when a config has lots of files. If you use imagecache try emptying the folder (/home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/imagecache).
Well I can see there are tens of thousands of small files in that directory but I have no idea why, since I never turned on this "imagecache" thing and I don't know why or how it would be used. It appears that it creates new files whenever guide data is imported, but again I don't know for what purpose. So, I have three questions:
- If I empty the folder as you suggest will that cause any problems?
- Is there any way to stop new files from being created?
- I'm assuming that deleting these file would not have any impact on Kodi, which is what I use as my frontend, because it has its own ways of downloading images, right?
Thanks much!
EDIT: I found the Image Cache tab butthe Enabled: checkbox is NOT checked, so I don't get why there were so many files. So I clicked "Clean image (icon) cache" and it looks like that blew away the entire /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/imagecache directory! So I guess I'll see if it gets recreated and starts refilling after the next guide data import. FURTHER EDIT: And it did. The directory got recreated and several new files were added. :(
EDIT 2: I figured out where these are coming from - the XML file that contains my guide data has a line like this for every channel and show:
<icon src="https://some.link.to.a.png" />
But still can't understand why Tvheadend isn't ignoring those. Nor why the software that creates the listings is including those lines to begin with, but that's not a Tvheadend issue.