Skin disaster

  • Hi. I foolishly installed a new skin in Kodi LibreELEC and now I’m locked into it. All my addons are still there but all I can do is access video tv and music addons. All other buttons like repo install and settings have vanished and I have no way of changing img the skin back. I can’t even remember the skin name as it was one I’ve never seen before. All I remember is that it was called something basic and basic it is. I’ve been using Kodi for years via my pi with no issues till now. I tried to view Kodi folders on my Linux machine to try and delete the skin file but all I see is an overlays folder and various files none of which relate to Kodi or LibreELEC. I could just wipe it and start again but I’ve got loads of stuff on there I would rather not lose. Is there anything I can do to get back to a usable skin. Thanks Andy.

    I think the name of the skin was box of that helps

  • Use a SSH session to rename the guisettings.xml file in the userdata folder and reboot.

    Some Kodi menu settings will have to be reconfigured.

    Next time, when all works 100%, make 1 (or more) proper backups.