TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

On a PC, putting an advancedsettings.xml file in your Kodi directory is easy.  Copy and paste via Windows Explorer, done. Same for an Android box or tablet.  Copy and paste using "My Files" or anything similar, done. On a Chromebook, not so much.  Chromebooks hide the OS files.  Copy & paste is not possible. However, it is possible to put an advancedsettings.xml file into Kodi on a Chromebook. NOTE : This guide assumes you know how to point Kodi to another device that holds your advancedsettings.xml file, such as a USB stick, external hard drive, internal storage, or whatever.  If you don't know how to do that, go away and find out. (Hey, you may as well.  You're probably going to need that same info to set up your video sources later.) Steps: 1.  Make your advancedsettings.xml file.  Here is a really simple file.  All it does is exclude certain directory names - like "Extras" - from being scanned into the Kodi library...

Symptoms:  Google Drive persists in giving the error "Sorry, upload of the file failed".  This occurs when using drag-and-drop or the "upload" button in the browser.  Errors occur regardless of file size.  A good test is to try and upload a tiny text file, to ensure bandwidth or other issues are not the problem.  Re-enabling Java in the browser does not help. More info:  Google help had nothing on this error message, and as far as I could see, nobody else had reported this exact problem.  I'm guessing people who access Drive via their browser are in the minority. I could not use the PC Drive interface in this instance since I was uploading video files that I did not want mirrored to my PC SSD. Solution:  You're probably using an older browser.  It may have worked fine in the past, but Google is presumably always tweaking / upgrading the Drive interface.  I have stuck with Firefox 14.0.1 up until July 2014 because I knew it and t...