Picons on usb

[Willmoore]

Installed new the Hades image and used the conflouence skin. I have now added the MK picons and the whole set up looks superb (excellent job by all concerned)

I have installed the MK picons on my HD (works perfectly well ) but have since read this may not be the best place and should put them on a usb stick. So i have formated a stick to FAT32 and loaded the MK picons on to it.

I have the following questions, if someone would be so kind to answer.

Do I switch the box off prior to inserting the stick ?
Do I delete the picons off my HD ?
Does the box automatically recognise the usb and load the picons or do I have to 'point' the box at it ?

[twol]

I would remove from HD (or flash), reboot and then the system will find the Picons on the USB stick - after that automatic.

[Willmoore]

Should the picons be in a folder called 'picons' on the usb ? at present they are stored loose on the usb.

[Stanman]

The folder should be called picon

[dude1]

Once you have your picons set up on a usb you might as well run your epg from it as well. Saves the hdd.

You just need to go into epg settings & change epg location to /media/usb.

[abu baniaz]

Saves the hdd.

How is this?

[judge]

How is this?

Utter nonsense.

[abu baniaz]

I was trying to get him to provide reasoning for his statement. Any misunderstandings could then be corrected.

[dude1]

Utter nonsense.

Thanks

I was trying to get him to provide reasoning for his statement. Any misunderstandings could then be corrected.

I thought having the picons as well as the epg on a usb stick stopped the hdd having to spin up every time either of them were accessed.

My mistake for trying to help if I'm wrong.

[abu baniaz]

Stored EPG is accessed at startup, shutdown and if you manually load it. Rest of time, it is kept in RAM. As such, there is no constant reading of HDD for EPG.

No need to apologise, it is a learning curve for everyone. Please continue to afford assistance to others.

If you had not posted and these posts were not made, there would be no sharing of knowledge.

[Willmoore]

Is there a 'best' place' to store it ? mine is currently set to internal flash

[dude1]

Stored EPG is accessed at startup, shutdown and if you manually load it. Rest of time, it is kept in RAM. As such, there is no constant reading of HDD for EPG.

No need to apologise, it is a learning curve for everyone. Please continue to afford assistance to others.

If you had not posted and these posts were not made, there would be no sharing of knowledge.

Thanks for explaining the difference, I apprecaite it. I've had mine setup for the last couple of years with both picons & epg on the usb. So the advice is only to have the picons on usb but having both there is no disadvantage either.

[Andy_Hazza]

Is there a 'best' place' to store it ? mine is currently set to internal flash

What is stored to internal flash?


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[Willmoore]

Sorry, Andy - epg.

[Andy_Hazza]

Sorry, Andy - epg.

Noooooooooooooo. I would advise and change it to your HDD. Firstly I would delete your EPG via the settings in EPG, then change the directory from internal flash to your HDD, then green button to save then exit out and press blue button, and run CrossEPG downloader to populate your 7 days again, then I assume you will have CrossEPG to run everyday thereafter.


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