Error: module 'xmbc' has no attribute 'translate Path' when installing Addon Metadata Editor version 3.0.1

After installing the addon script Metadata Editor version 3.0.1 from the Kodi.tv repo v20. The error message (screenshot below) that: module 'xmbc' has no attribute 'translate Path'. and that if ignored it may lead to memory leaks.

A quick google revealed a earlier post by camelreef, who had a possible solution to investigate.

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Official FranceTV add-on bug in LE11 nightly - AttributeError: module 'xbmc' has no attribute 'translatePath'

Hello!

The official FranceTV add-on hs a typical bug these days:

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Simple (simplistic?) fix: in

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add, where the existing imports are:

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and, line 65, change

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to

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I'm a rusty coder, so that change may not be the best. It's what works for me after Googling for the error I was getting.

camelreef

November 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM

His suggestion is that:

xmbc.translate path

was depreciated and the module xbmcvfs should now be used:

xmbcvfs.translate path

I then applied this reasoning to the Metadata Editor Addon, version 3.0.1.

The error message that was generated highlights the problem as being located in the:

File"/storage/.kodi/addons/script.metadat.editor/resources/lib/helper.py",line 27,

so I changed the line from:

ADDON_DATA_PATH = os.path.join(xbmc.translatePath("special://profile/addon_data/%s" % ADDON_ID))

to

ADDON_DATA_PATH = os.path.join(xbmcvfs.translatePath("special://profile/addon_data/%s" % ADDON_ID))

I did not have to use camelreef's additional advice to add:

import xbmcvfs

... to the top of the helper.py file, as it was already listed there.

Then saved the file. rebooted and... amazing... no error message: and no more warnings about Memory leaks .

I then tested the Metadata Editor Addon by editing some artist and album .nfo files direct from within the kodi browser, all seems correct.

Am I right in assuming that this is a transitioning problem between different versions of Kodi?

 translatePath is no longer a function of the xmbc module and now apart of the xmbcvfs module?

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Below is a screenshot of the original error message.