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so i synced the folder to google drive to make sure it catches every file. that was an easy fix. I am going to try to make a plugin schedules a copy of the whole folder to another. so a backup of the backup. probably can do that with a batch file and windows scheduler. idk well see. im kind of shit at coding so yeah

i gotcha, i just mean its only saving 5 at a time for each platform. so if i edited it 5+ times without realizing the issue, im screwed

and actually, arent those super nintendo xmls on your photo all unique parent playlists?

i recently ran a clean up media but its safe to assume that wouldnt touch that folder. idk why im limited to only 5 for most platforms. it says 25 for the main xml file in that setting. but im not seeing anything that would account for the amount all of the platforms and other xml backups.

and like... im a full blown launchbox addict. i use it every day. fiddling with settings and tweaking the visuals. like a lot.

although i didnt really touch those so idk maybe it is just me. idk why that is though

hmm. is there any reason you could think of that it only backs up 5 files? maybe theres something i can edit to make it just keep writing the files as things are changed. im pretty sure it was like that on a previous build i had to.

ok that worked for the most part. Most systems had earlier backups but some of the best ones all had updates from only today. snes nes genesis and windows only had what i just was doing to manually correct everything. i know thats on me because i should have fixed it from the start. But i would say that being that the whole backups folder is only 57 mb for me. I'd imagine it would be a good idea to backup something like 20 or 30 old saves rather than the 5 for each platform. because dummies like me exist. anyway, thank you, that just shaved off hours of fixing my system. hopefully i can scrounge up the money for a lifetime subscription as my big box is up in august. you guys are great. thanks again

right. got it. yeah i didnt realize it was so neatly coded. i can just look at the game i need and see if its screwed up or not. okie doke. thanks bro

ok thank you

alright so i need to go to before the metadata update and manually put in each backup file for each system. is that right?

specifically the genres. right? so that would mean all of those on the 14th are probably the updates i dont want. look correct?

im hoping the answer is yes because then it looks like it was on the 14th that i updated the metadata for everything. (being that all of the files are there) so everything before it should be good to go. problem is if it doesnt and i just load those files in, im going to lose certain things i wanted updated. itll still be better than having to redo all of the genres. that was painstaking and super tedious

maybe a better more pointed question would be... do any of these backup files, or any other backup files contain the genre info that i had saved for months before i idiotically updated everything and ruined everything

i scrolled down a bit. all the "settings" backups are on the top meaning from today. all in date order btw. so theyre useless

I looked around the forums and didnt find anything like this. Ive been spending the past few days making big box look prettier. that neon deluxe theme is dope. so for a change ive been using big box. While on there i realized that there were certain problems with the metadata for some of the games. across multiple platforms. so i stupidly hit the update metadata button for my entire collection, forgetting that i took hours upon hours updating the genres for almost 3,000 games. making sure beat em ups are actually beat em ups. separating shoot em ups from regular shooters. point is, it took forever. i changed so much in the genre department that i want back. It totally reset. anyone that has a mame set knows how dumb the genres are on there. so i started changing some back and realized that there might be a backup file somewhere. problem is, all of the settings backups are from today, and im not actually sure what day i reset the metadata. i think it was 2 days ago. so i do have some backup files from that time period, but they are platform specific

good call my friend. works pretty well

so as far as an android version. Im a thousand percent down with that. currently i use DIG for a frontend and mostly retroarch for older systems. hooked to a 8bitdo snes pro with a phone clip attached to a galaxy s10. it does the job, but it would be so awesome if there was an android version of launchbox and/or bigbox. especially if theyre integrated somehow. particularly with a theme feature. those Mr retrolust launchbox and bigbox themes look amazing. another thing ive been hoping for is something like steam link. something that basically remote accesses your computer and just streams bigbox to your phone using the bluetooth controller to control everything. but im assuming that would be really hard to pull off. ive actually tried it using steam link and just bypassing their UI and opening big box but its super clunky. not to mention if i open something that isnt through steam it doesnt read the controller properly.