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If you used path subs for the entire Thumbnails folder - Extra safe method

Quit all XBMC devices.
Update all instances to XBMC v12 "Frodo", but don't open/launch XBMC yet.
Choose one XBMC device and open XBMC
Say yes when it asks to update art.
Copy your pathsubstituted thumbnails folder onto all XBMC devices, replacing the local thumbnails folder in the userdata folder.
On the first XBMC device go into userdata/database/ and copy the "Textures13.db" file to all the other XBMC devices in their userdata/database/ folders.
Remove path substitution for thumbnails from the advancedsettings.xml file of each XBMC box.
From that point on, XBMC will sync art/thumbs directly to each XBMC box, but will keep them in sync (whereas before XBMC would only add art on one box, and boxes could have different artwork if set manually). Having the thumbnails folder locally on each box will also speed up loading the library, and what art to use is stored in the videos DB that MySQL is already sharing.

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-{{editor note|1=big thing to note here is for users who were using pathsubs for thumbnails and how they should go about removing that. Useful information here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=145282 .}}
+==If you used Path Substitution for sharing thumbnails==
+;If you used path subs for the entire Thumbnails folder - ''Extra safe method''
+# Quit all XBMC devices.
+# Update all instances to XBMC v12 "Frodo", but don't open/launch XBMC yet.
+# Choose one XBMC device and open XBMC
+# Say yes when it asks to update art.
+# Copy your pathsubstituted thumbnails folder onto all XBMC devices, replacing the local thumbnails folder in the [[userdata]] folder.
+# On the first XBMC device go into userdata/database/ and copy the "Textures13.db" file to all the other XBMC devices in their userdata/database/ folders.
+# Remove path substitution for thumbnails from the advancedsettings.xml file of each XBMC box.
+# From that point on, XBMC will sync art/thumbs directly to each XBMC box, but will keep them in sync (whereas before XBMC would only add art on one box, and boxes could have different artwork if set manually). Having the thumbnails folder locally on each box will also speed up loading the library, and what art to use is stored in the videos DB that MySQL is already sharing.