Closed daherlihy closed 8 months ago
Good point. When an advancesettings
file is detected in the restore point there user is prompted to restore and restart; however this is not fool proof. There are edge cases where this might not be detected. Checking the modified date for these files post-restore is probably a better method of determining if they've been touched.
Thanks for looking into this. I'll leave it up to you to decide whatever is best - I'm just glad I know and want to share the knowledge for anyone else who doesn't know :)
I ended up adding a global prompt at the end of all restore jobs to recommend Kodi is restarted. Keeping track of all the files that may require a restart is way too work intensive. Easier to just clean reboot the whole system no matter what.
Yep makes perfect sense, thanks again for the update and for looking into this!
Problem - When I do a restore that contains config files (for instance the sources.xml, advancedsettings.xml, keymap.xml, etc.), they are not updated immediately in Kodi until I restart it.
Many don't realise this and think the restore feature doesn't work - myself included until I asked [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/19doxcq/how_do_i_back_up_sources/.
Suggestion/Solution - if/when users restore config files (at the very least), there should be a prompt to advise restarting Kodi so as to see the reflected changes from the restoration.