I am running a headless KODI instance on my NAS (with limited storage) and don’t see any need for it to cache images when scanning in media.
I am using a web-interface for initiating scans etc, but it’s text only (for faster browsing via VPN).
And I’m pretty sure that all the other instances of KODI download the media themselves via the URLs in the MySQL DB.
I am thinking I could symbolic link the thumbs directory to /dev/null – but think this maybe issues due to missing folder heirachy.
Or, I could path substitute thumbnails to /tmp/kodi directory
and or, I could use a cron job to clear out the thumbs directory each night.
Will clearing out this directory cause issues?
Should I also remove the textures DB at the same time?
Or, is their maybe a settings somewhere to disable all thumbs downloading?
I think a cron job for the below seems the safest to me (and not touch the textures db)
find ~/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails -type f -iname \*.jpg -delete