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Yes I forgot to mention that part about Excel... Good news, though, I finally got it to work but for no rhyme or reason. For editing I'm using an XML editor and using its "grid view" that resembles a spreadsheet. I used another website's public API for getting genres and descriptions, as GamesDB seems to still has a lot of growing pains to go through. For example, "Racing Game 1" will have a genre of "Racing/Simulation" and its sequel "Racing Game 2" will have a genre of "Racer Game". Also, the descriptions can sometimes leave a lot to be desired. So far the Excel/XML editor combo has worked for copy/pasting thousands of entries at a time as long as I take out html tags and carriage returns. If there was a way to copy/paste into Launchbox's list view, though.... FEATURE REQUEST! Haha... still enjoying the app very much, keep up the good work.

I did a search on this forum and could not find this specific problem. Have also submitted a bug report. Version 5.5 on Win 7 x64. After editing the XML, in particular the "Notes" column, I get the following error upon startup followed by a crash to desktop. ​System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid Boolean. at System.Boolean.Parse(String value) at LaunchBox.Data.Game.GetBooleanValue(DataRow row, String column) at LaunchBox.Data.Game.LoadFromDataRow(DataRow row) at LaunchBox.Data.DataManager.Load() at LaunchBox.Data.DataManager..ctor(Boolean bare) at LaunchBox.Program.Main(String[] args) I've stripped the records of carriage returns and characters. Launchbox.xml is not open in any other program. Any ideas?

The dot net 4.5 install said everything was up to date. However, I was unable to reproduce the problem this morning and I have two possible reasons. I *think* I opened LB as Administrator, and I did NOT have PCSX2 open in the background this time. My mobo is a G7 Sniper, and tweaking the dummy power load setting in BIOS didn't change anything. I'll keep attempting to reproduce it though in case I can assist with some bug reporting.

Thank you for the prompt reply! I'll try the .Net reinstall, good idea. I'm running Win 7 x64 on an Intel board. If needed I still have the event logs. If there's any other info I can provide or logging applications that would help let me know, please.

After uninstalling/reinstalling the program and also attempting to add while in Gamebox view, the computer still shut down by itself, again only while I was in the edit game screen after pressing "Add" down on the bottom.

I can play hours on end of demanding games with my pc but Launchbox has recently been the apparent cause of consistent, reproducible automatic shutdowns. Whenever I Add a game, go through the title search and start editing the notes it shuts the computer down without fail. I've saved three event log files after this has happened. I've updated my graphics card driver, reseated hardware, and am about to perform a clean install of LB 5.3, will update with the results of that later. I've always been in List view, too, will also attempt to reproduce in other views.

I'm not sure if anybody else figured this out, but the gray square with "fields" you see on sincro's Info tab is merely an example screenshot. I'm attempting to import MAMEs right now with the program...