V19 upgrade: sad face loop while installing a package

Hi guys!

Again, thanks a lot for all your advices. So this is what I have done:

  1. Install Samba Server on Vero4K and DB Browser for SQLite on my computer.
  2. Stopped mediacenter
  3. Copied .kodi to .kodi_backup (yes, it turns out I had enough room)
  4. Found 3 * MyMusic libraries and 3 * MyVideo libraries.
  5. Searched for BLOB values and deleted them (I had 35 such values in each of the 3 music DBs. My video DBs are empty). I kept records of all 35 .nfo files.
  6. Restarted Vero
  7. Tried to install Library Data Provider add-on (LDP) → Vero crashed and went into boot loop. :frowning:
  8. Renamed all 35 .nfo files that contained BLOBs.
  9. Restarted Vero.
  10. While I were renaming 35 .nfo’s Vero crashed a couple of times. It does not crash immediately after reboot like it did upon LDP installation, but it crashes wiithin about 10-15 minutes of standing idle.

I went again into the DB Browser to check that there were no BLOBs left and found one strange thing. All the BLOBs values that I removed were in strReview column. I don’t have any BLOBs anymore, but I have a lot of rows where strReview cell shows correct text of the review, but Edit Database Cell in the top right corner of the DB Browser shows binary hex, instead of text. So what is it? Am I supposed to remove these reviews as well? Hell, I have a lot them…