Nothing in installed extensions anymore (1 Viewer)

[SpudR]

No me - and I've not been playing, but the MPEI has lost the list of installed extensions.
This has happened to me before and I installed all the plugins again, but it's a right royal PITA.

Is there a way to regenerate the list?

 

[offbyone]

MPE stored it's list of installed extensions in this file:
c:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Installer\V2\InstalledExtensions.xml
So at the moment when your list was empty it would be good to know what that file looked like - it might have been in some way corrupted or overwritten by some exception or ...
I haven't had this happen to me yet, so no idea how to reproduce or even fix it.
The list cannot be generated without that file.

 

[SpudR]

It only had info for the DVDart plugin (I checked)
Just going through reinstalling stuff again...

 

[SpudR]

This has just happened again - the 'Installed Extensions' tab is blank
Luckily I copied the old 'InstalledExtensions.xml' file and copying that version over the existing one works.
Here's the offending XMLs for your perusal... (These were RAR'd before overwriting with the working version)

#Edit#
Thought I'd better upload the working version too...

#Edit2#
If you look around line 1623 it looks like the tags are not closed properly for the <MaxVersion> section - would this break the XML and stop it from working??
From that point on things just go a little weird and do not match the working version at all...
(File compare utils are sooooo useful!)

 

[offbyone]

Looks like the closing tag for <MaxVersion> is never written because the <Revision> is not written. This surely is the reason why it won't load correctly. I'll try to find out how this invalid xml could be written. Good work we're getting closer now!

 

[SpudR]

Ah ha!
Glad to be of help

 

[SpudR]

Not sure if it's a bug or by design, but the size of the cache is quite big.
It was originally @ >450Mb, I deleted all the folders only and did an update, now it's in at 29Mb - that's quite a saving...
Is this as expected or does the installer clean itself up from time to time?