Advancedsettings.xml is overwritten on shutdown

[out_sider]

I'm running raspberry pi with Raspbmc (XBMC 12.2) and I personally don't like the default time values for the step forward and back commands. As such I decided to edit the file advancedsettings.xml at ~/.xbmc/userdata/ folder.

Now, my issue is that most of the time I don't poweroff the raspberry pi through the shutdown option on the UI, this is because it's powered by my TV usb port, which results in the advancedsettings.xml content being "reset" and all my modifications are lost. How can I prevent that from happening? In fact I think all the content in the ~/.xbmc/userdata/ folder is overwritten because when I do

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ls -l

I got the modified data of all files the present day.

[sdjf]

I don't know xbmc, but if something gets overwritten when you restart the OS, then I would write a script or alias that copied all the modified files to backups as part of your shutdown routine. then, after the pi finishes rebooting, copy those backups back in place with your preferred settings. Or run a daemon that checks the status of that file and copies the backup into place if your preferred settings have been overwritten.

But it would be better if xbmc had some sort of flag that told it to use your preferred settings and not to reset itself, are you sure there isn't such a configuration option?