February 5, 201412 yr How much space does your XBMC folder (including subdirectories) take up? I ask because I was going to finish the XBMC VM Appliance and need to know how big I should make the Appliance to be able to accommodate most users and how they use their XBMC. I only run 1 skin, a few addons and store Artwork and Thumbnails local so mine is over 1GB. What about the rest of you?
February 5, 201412 yr How my space does your XBMC folder (including subdirectories) take up? I ask because I was going to finish the XBMC VM Appliance and need to know how big I should make the Appliance to be able to accommodate most users and how they use their XBMC. I only run 1 skin, a few addons and store Artwork and Thumbnails local so mine is over 1GB. What about the rest of you? I would have to check but I run mine a little different from convention with the mysql database and the artwork stored on a network share.
February 5, 201412 yr Author I would have to check but I run mine a little different from convention with the mysql database and the artwork stored on a network share. Yeah... I just know there are a lot of people whose religion / passion is how to use the least amount of wattage on their unRAID Server and wanting their unRAID drives to sleep 99.9% when they aren't using it. I suspect those folks don't use MYSQL / network shares to store everything.
February 5, 201412 yr 2gb would be just about enough, but to be safe I would double it. 8tb worth of media data takes up 1.4gb on my box, 13tb worth about 1.9gb on my dads. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
February 5, 201412 yr I put down 10+ GB because that's how much space is used on my Mac Server (not including MySQL DB) with images stored locally. Size: 1.03 GB Size on disk: 22.5 GB 22,928 files, 985 directories. I have a rather large collection of DVDs and Blurays, each ripped onto my NAS. 674 movies, 920 TV episodes. Each has one NFO file, one thumbnail, one fan art, and one MKV.
February 5, 201412 yr I put down 10+ GB because that's how much space is used on my Mac Server (not including MySQL DB) with images stored locally. Size: 1.03 GB Size on disk: 22.5 GB 22,928 files, 985 directories. I have a rather large collection of DVDs and Blurays, each ripped onto my NAS. 674 movies, 920 TV episodes. Each has one NFO file, one thumbnail, one fan art, and one MKV. Grumpy didn't mean your library, he meant the actual XBMC data folder itself! This. http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Userdata
February 5, 201412 yr Grumpy didn't mean your library, he meant the actual XBMC data folder itself! Well, in that case... Size: 850 MB Size on disk: 20.8 GB 21,399 files, 177 directories. ETA:
February 6, 201412 yr This post is going to be off-topic, but seems to relate. I just started loading up Iconic's Arch VM and was going to look at installing Plex, and checked the \Plex\Application Support folder on my UnRAID cache disk in Windows Explorer. It shows: Size: 14.1GB Size on disk: 189GB Contains: 196,969 Files, 122,385 Folders. I see similar variances in the responses to SBD's topic. What number should we be looking at? Size or Size on disk? I was going to ask this in a general forum, but came across this thread which is asking the same question (just for XBMC instead of Plex), so thought maybe someone here could answer. Sorry if this derails the conversation. Let me know if you'd prefer I ask this in a general forum instead of hijacking this thread.
February 8, 201412 yr My entire openelec install is 10GB so most of that is from the userdata folder (haven't looked at just that folder size) I have a rather large library compared to what has been mentioned here. I'm also using mysql if that makes a difference. Sent from my SM-N900W8 using Tapatalk
February 8, 201412 yr my user data folder is 3.5gb on a media library of 4300 + movies, 315 complete tv series, 50,000 + songs and a few music videos.
February 9, 201412 yr Well I checked my user data folder, its 5.9GB. My thumbnails folder alone is 5.5GB.
February 9, 201412 yr Two factors can make a big difference apart from the size of your collections: 1. Do you use XBMC for music. These guys can routinely have 30-40GB of artwork 2. Do you run one of the various extra fanart addons. These guys download several 1MB files for every movie and tv show and it soon adds up
February 9, 201412 yr Awesome seeing further development. just checked mine ~ 4.35 GB ( for about 27TB of data (1100 shows/55kepisodes and roughly 5.5K Movies, and some music)
February 10, 201412 yr Two factors can make a big difference apart from the size of your collections: 1. Do you use XBMC for music. These guys can routinely have 30-40GB of artwork 2. Do you run one of the various extra fanart addons. These guys download several 1MB files for every movie and tv show and it soon adds up I have zero music. And only extra fanart I have is for my TV shows and it's only a hand full of extra files per show. Its probably due to how many episodes I have... Sent from my SM-N900W8 using Tapatalk
February 10, 201412 yr Also worth noting that the XBMC art cleanup doesn't work 100% and a fair lump of expired art never gets removed. bnevets27 these comments are generic and not specifically for you
February 10, 201412 yr I'm not absolutely sure what size you are asking for. I run OpenELEC, with a MySQL database and shared thumbnails. My userdata folders, on my cache drive, are each currently just under 300MB. My xbmc user share (almost entirely thumbnails) is 1.2GB.
February 10, 201412 yr My thumbs folder blew up to over 4GB at one point. Then I cleaned up and started over. The problem is, whenever you stream online videos like trailers, YouTube, Hulu, etc, those thumbs are created, but never deleted. So it gets more and more bloated
February 10, 201412 yr My OE install is up to about 30GB all in (it has smaller fanart/thumbs, but I also routinely run the skins img addon pack) You were looking for feedback for how big to make a VM for XBMC? Whats the rule of thumb, take the avg, and then double it? Is this the kind of thing that is easy to expand later on? I'd go with something like 10GB up to 50Gb, just to be safe. People run XBMC off thumb drives, so it can't always be that big.
February 10, 201412 yr I have 3 XBMCbuntu instances (2 virtual and 1 physical)... 203MB 211MB 209MB I use Media Center Master as my scraper/manager (all artwork is stored in the movie folders) and a MySQL db for a shared library. John
February 12, 201412 yr Media Center Master is nice, however I like MetaBrowser since it runs as a service in the taskbar. Also, Media Companion is specifically designed to work with XBMC and is free. I use combo's of all 3 depending on what I am trying to do. All 3 have nice, "key" features. It would be great if they were amalgamated into the perfect media manager app.
February 13, 201412 yr I use XBMC for this and a proxy server to cache art for a bit of extra efficiency. Never understood the need for a nfo manager.
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