HOW-TO:Updating to OpenELEC 3.0/Removing Your Current Configuration

Removing Your Current Configuration
WARNING: This step is going to backup your current installation, for whatever reason you want to go back to OpenELEC 1.0 or 2.0 you can use you backup to go back to your old install.

You must SSH to your OpenELEC box, this will require another computer. To learn how to SSH follow  this guide. Please note, for windows you can use puTTY (which must be downloaded), for Mac OSX and Linux you can use Terminal (which is already included).

When you have enabled an SSH connection you will have to type (or carefully copy and paste) the following commands. To backup your old config: cp -r /storage/.xbmc /storage/.xbmc.bk To remove the old config (XBMC must be configured from scratch, including any addons/databases): rm -rf /storage/.xbmc

You may also want to make a backup of your Config Files folder (/storage/.config) if you use a netmount.conf, samba.conf, or autostart.sh cp -r /storage/.config /storage/.config.bk Then remove your Config folder rm -rf /storage/.config

To finish the installation you must reboot your system for the update to take place.

Once rebooted you will be presented with the lovely confluence skin.