Gaz70

Seems too random to be 'standard' behavior. I created Arcade about three weeks ago so why would it suddenly decide to create 5000 empty folders three weeks later? I've also seen it create empty folders one day and then delete them a few days later. Doesn't sound right to me

I am auditing a collection at the moment and when I've had enough I close launchbox. I then perform a complete backup of the launchbox folder and subfolders onto another drive. One thing I've noticed is that it keeps creating lots of empty folders for some reason. For example I am auditing my BBC collection at the moment and nothing else. When I closed launchbox and told it to do a backup this is what I see.: For some reason it suddenly wants to create >5000 folders. Not just for arcade in the screenshot but every single platform. I haven't even touched these, I only tested about 6 games in my BBC collection. I've seen it do this on multiple occasions so any idea what is causing it?

I didn't even see that lol. More haste less speed. Thank you!

So I managed to find out that "View > Hide Games > Missing Screenshot Image" was suddenly ticked for no apparent reason and having unticked it everything came back after a moment of panic. But what happened?

What does Ctrl+Shift+R do in Launchbox? It seemed to do some kind of audit on *everything*. Now I have a load of platforms deleted on the left and of the one that is left (out of about 5) it is showing only 6 games when I had over a thousand

I'm having this issue too. Only since upgrading to 14. Doesn't hang every single time but more often than not. Does it generate any log files that are of any use admin?

That's immensely helpful thank you! While I was waiting I decided to write a powershell script instead. I also wrote one to find any game that does not have a DB ID number too. Happy to upload either/or if anyone else was interested.

I've tried researching this but not coming up with much. I have 7000 games in a platform and only a handful have missing media. Is there a quick and easy way to show all the ones that are missing? The "Games missing media" gives you absolutely everything so a) takes time and b) is a bit of a pain to sort through. I am aware of the audit which although it gives me what I want and can sort it is fairly slow and unresponsive because of the amount of data there. I wondered if there was a quicker way that I am missing?

Bear in mind that because these are categories they are currently blank and no images exist, so having to edit, search for the image etc. is actually a pain especially as I have a load to do. It would be so much easier just to know where to dump images into the folder structure.

I've just been playing with this. There are two images on the right hand side of the screen: I have managed to get the bottom one to appear by placing it in: LaunchBox\Images\Platform Categories\BBC\Banner but I cannot get the top one to appear? I have navigated to: LaunchBox\Images\Platform Categories and called it "BBC.png" (which is how I interpreted your instruction?) But that does not work. I have managed to edit it manually and change the image to "Clear Logo (override)" so can you confirm what folder I need to drop the image into because in LaunchBox\Images\Platform Categories\BBC there is no clear logo folder?

Thank you for all your help, it's much appreciated. I still have a lot to learn but I absolutely love Launchbox! While grappling with sorting everything out I have barely had time to properly look at Big Box yet!

The only reason I wanted to create it as a platform rather than a category is that the Platform adds the nice graphics and icons whereas the platform is just blank. "Microsoft MSX" has the icon where I imported the Roms whereas the one I created "MSX" just looks blank. I know it's just cosmetics but it would be nice to be able to just have that behaviour by default I guess

I'm not trying to import into a category, I'm trying to import into a platform (see last message). I have created a platform called "BBC Test". If I go into Manage platforms, I can see it. Currently its parent is "Computers" but it does not show (because there is nothing in it I assume.) I have then imported roms. This created its own list by default. I then right-click this list and basically want to change the parent to BBC Test ... but that does not show in the list. This is where it all falls apart for me.

This makes a lot of sense and helps me a lot. So I have right-clicked Computers, New platform and called it BBC. However it does not show in the list so prevents me from moving forwards? I had a look under "Manage > Platforms" and can see it was created, and when I edit it it is populated perfectly so this is a step in the right direction. So what I need to be able to do now is to see BBC in the left then right click it and create a category and then import my games into that - but I can't because it's not visiible?

Can someone help me get my head around Platform categories. If I import Roms and choose Atari 2600, it creates a folder under Consoles and has a little icon for the Atari next to it. When you click into it, on the right hand side at the top it has the Atari 2600 image then underneath that has a picture of the console. I love all this! Where I am falling into a problem is that I want to create folders on the left hand side. For the BBC I have disks and cassettes so what I ideally want is under "Computers" for there to be BBC - but no games in here. I then want a folder "in" BBC called "disks" and a second folder called "cassettes". I'm unsure on the best way to go about this. If I manually create a folder on the left just called "BBC" it doesn't have the BBC icon. I understand this because Launchbox doesn't know or understand what it is. I really can't get my head around the best way to import and then sort this. As I say I want a "BBC" under computers which has the nice icons but no games and then sub categories of "Disks" and "cassettes" under that. I've also discovered that if I try to circumvent the "tools import" wizard then I lose a lot of information like all the text in the "details" tab as well as the notes tab. I guess what I am trying to achieve is for it to create that platform with all of the details but without it importing anything at that stage - if that makes sense? Any help would be appreciated as I'm going round in circles!