Jason Carr

Eventually I do plan to add that, yes. However, it might be a while since I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't want it prioritized. What I'll likely do first is just allow you to clear your whole collection and re-sync, which mostly solves the issue.

That's correct, most likely it's too far down the list to get implemented before the next poll. That said, there is at least one theme out there that already does it, and I know that there's a theme coming that does it as well, so it's probably mostly a non-issue, since themes are doing it already anyways. We were just going to make it more standardized is all.

Lol I won't.

And here's the final results: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-V9D22LCH8/

Just closed the poll because some very special individual decided to game the system and vote for nested folders 300 times lol. Spent an hour of his time doing it too, all for naught because they were easy to identify and remove. I'll post the poll results here very shortly.

Lol. Some "smart" guy (maybe you @pasteko?) decided to fudge the poll and voted 300 times for nested folders yesterday. It was easy to identify and remove though. I did go ahead and close the poll so nobody else can try and fudge it. Nested folders ended up coming in at #14, and that's where it'll stay.

They had one job...

Yeah, seems to be working the vast majority of the time. I'm in touch with the technical team at SurveyMonkey, but I'm told it'll be a day or two.

That option is currently only for Big Box. LaunchBox will still just use what ever the default PDF reader is on your system.

Yeah, I've seen several reports of this. As far as I know the poll entries are still being taken in but that angers me a bit since we pay SurveyMonkey like $400 a year. I sent them an angry email lol. I guess most likely we'll be using a new survey provider next time.

Good point; I hadn't thought of that, though unfortunately it would still not be accurate, since a lot more games have the same series than are actually the same games.

Sorry for not clarifying. The main issue is that often times games will have the same name on different platforms, but be completely different games, especially when comparing platforms from different periods of time.

That would be a horribly inaccurate way to match games across platforms...

Good to hear, thanks. Per the RAM cache, believe it or not the RAM cache in LaunchBox doesn't have anything to do with Big Box. It's LaunchBox-only (should probably make that clear in the dialog because that's a common misconception).

It's sitting at #15 on the list right now, which means that we'll probably tackle it but it will likely be a while yet. I tend to cut the list off at the middle, and #15 is still above the middle, at least for now. It's been obvious that it's something that the power users are pretty passionate about, though the general, broader user-base is much less interested in it (it was much higher up the list before I sent out the email to reach the rest of the community that isn't on top of social media).

Yes, playlist folders are included in that item. The issue with the another platform stuff is just that we don't have any metadata for it, so we have no way of knowing what games are associated with other games from other platforms. I don't know how we'd do it outside of adding it to the games database and having people slowly match them up manually, which would take a long while.

@Cadizking25 You can check the LaunchBox\Backups folder for old versions of the XML files, but it may be sort of a wild goose chase to find the right ones.

@xoran Unfortunately it's not that uncommon to run out of RAM during attract mode on 8 gig systems. I did a lot of work a while back to reduce RAM usage as much as I could; it's not a memory leak, but rather the CoverFlow images take up a lot of RAM. You can reduce the CoverFlow image quality in the settings, which does help. Another option should be to simply just not use the CoverFlow views, as the other views aren't nearly as RAM-heavy (let me know if you aren't using CoverFlow). I'm almost certain that this would have nothing to do with the 8.1 release (or at least very little, it could have to do with the Chrome addition taking up slightly more RAM). It's one of those things that is not very common, but does happen, and depends on a lot of different factors.

@sxetikos I have the translation into the latest 8.1 beta, so you can test it. We are going to be putting out a quick fix 8.1 release either today or tomorrow though, and I'll disable it temporarily again for that official release until we're confident in everything.

Converting to Excel files doesn't sound like it would help unless it can go the other way (convert from Excel back into resx). Ultimately, it's the resx files that the app uses so that has to be the end result. Conversions do scare me a little since we have run into problems in the past with extra entries in the resx files, etc. So if you do find a new way to do it, it would probably be best to test it with one file before proceeding with the rest.

That error unfortunately has to do with the plugin, so the plugin author would have to fix it. I don't have the code for the plugin so there's really nothing I can do there. Maybe see if you can report it to the plugin author.

Did you copy a Hyperspin XML into the LaunchBox Data\Platforms folder? If so, that just isn't going to work.

Generally only if you have problems. But that error means that either the theme is somehow broken, or the theme isn't installed properly.

This is an error loading games XML. I've never seen this error before; by chance did the XML of anything get modified outside of LaunchBox? What plugins do you have installed?

@kostas I responded elsewhere. Please don't double-post.