Many times add-on become outdated for various reasons, like an add-on which is not maintained anymore. Having many add-ons also affect your system making it run slower, as those add-ons consume more memory, perform more queries in order to stay updated and occupies more storage.
Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open source media player application developed by the XBMC/Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. Oct 31, 2019 Step 4- Make sure to pick the correct Addon. For example, to delete a Kodi addon used to stream media files, click on ‘Video Add-ons’. Step 5- On the right side of the screen, look for installed addons. Find the one you want to delete, right-click on it and select ‘Information’. Step 6- Then click on Uninstall from the bottom right corner. Related article: Kodi not working? How to fix common Kodi problems. How to delete separate scripts that are not in the addon’s folder. Although this process will delete all of the files in the addon’s folder, there may still be other dependencies or scripts that were installed along with this addon. Jul 27, 2015 Due to some of my tutorials like How to Merge Kodi Streaming Add-ons into the Video Library and Sync Genesis TV & Movie Libraries Across Multiple Kodi HTPCs, I get a lot of questions from people who are using something besides Windows. They are usually asking where to find the path to the Kodi userdata folder. Since I didn’t want to clutter up my tutorials with all of the separate directions. Click on the addondata folder; Locate the folder of the uninstalled add-on and click the menu button; Click Delete; If you don’t remove this data and reinstall the same add-on, all the old settings will return as most add-ons will not delete the data when uninstalled.
It is a good practice to go over your add-ons, see which ones are not used anymore and if so delete them. This way you free resources from your system, improve its performance and make it run faster.
Here are the instructions on how to remove add-ons:
- Launch Kodi
- Click Add-ons
- Click My add-ons
- Choose the add-on you want to remove and click on it
- Click Uninstall and then Yes to confirm
Microsoft office visio. If you want also to remove the data of the uninstalled add-on here is what you need to do:
- Launch Kodi
- Click the Settings icon
- Click File manager
- Click Profile directory
- Click on the addon_data folder
- Locate the folder of the uninstalled add-on and click the menu button
- Click Delete
If you don’t remove this data and reinstall the same add-on, all the old settings will return as most add-ons will not delete the data when uninstalled.
Uninstall will also not remove any dependencies the add-on installed when it was initially installed. Removal of add-on dependencies is tricky because other add-ons you have installed may require them too.
Uninstall will also not remove any dependencies the add-on installed when it was initially installed. Removal of add-on dependencies is tricky because other add-ons you have installed may require them too.
Now is the time to remove some unused add-ons!