Path Substitution Issue

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I'm using the current Emby for Kodi plugin on Kodi 18.8 installed on an Insignia Fire TV. The TV has a relatively small amount of memory, mostly from cached Thumbnails. I started looking into Kodi path substitution to try and free up some space. I moved my Thumbnail cache to my NAS, and the load times were just fine. I also moved it to a USB drive plugged into the TV just to compare, and still good. However, I noticed that images that are not yet cached are no longer loading from Emby. My head starts to spin a bit when I think about what's going wrong, and how what I've done could have caused this.

I figure this is fine, and I'll just open Emby and click "Cache all artwork". Well, whenever I do that, it updates 46,996 items, but after that process completes, I get a message saying "Waiting for threads to exit: 33902". I've left this process for up to 20 minutes, and it never appears to complete. It just hangs there every time I try.

So can someone help educate me how I can perform Kodi path substitution when using Emby for Kodi on a low-memory device? I'm not quite sure what to do next. I'm afraid the answer is to update or repair my Library, which takes a solid 3 hours, and I'd rather not do that since I just did it yesterday...

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ok, it appears that I probably didn't have write access to the USB drive. I'll look into that later, but when I change the path substitution back to the network share, Emby is able to cache the un-cached items.

"Cache all artwork" still does nothing, though. Would be nice if it did.

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Emby for Kodi 4.x versions have some issues with artwork cache. e.g. if you set the Kodi http interface to a different port as default.

Please wait for 5.x version.

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I didn't change the default port for Emby, though.