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Still having this issue in December. It's not actually related to my dual-monitor setup though, I don't think. LaunchBox just seems to get into a state where I can't actually get it to regain focus unless I kill it from the task manager and restart it. I don't know how to actively reproduce it, but it has been happening for a number of months now.

Steam has decided to include items in my library that I can hide in steam, but always show up on imports when I run the LaunchBox importer. Typically these are "test" or "beta" servers/games or utility software. Is there a way I can tell LaunchBox to permanently ignore these items and not show them in the import list?

Awesome, it backed up perfectly as well. Super thankful for your help. Now to assess whether or not it's actually worth upgrading to 6.0 - y'know, as the old adage goes - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Or "leave well enough alone."

Beautiful, installing the link extension worked. Thank you! Now I need to make sure when I back up this folder, it's not going to try and copy all of eXoDOS as well haha

Ok I'll check it out in a bit. When you say symlink, you mean the Windows version aka shortcut, right?

I just downloaded it haha. But I wasn't sure if the issue was resolved though so I didn't want to go through the whole process again and end up with the same issue haha.

No the LB install is in C. No symlinks either - just correct XML pathing. I'll check when I get home on of I kept the whole deeper folder structure. Not sure on what you mean by unsetting and setting perms again though.

@Timber-eXoProjects Yes, actually - the games are on my drive mounted NAS. All the games are extracted, ie "installed." This is v5. Since this is my LaunchBox instance, is this plugin even there? Maybe it came over when I copied folders into my existing install, but I don't recall explicitly grabbing a plug-in for the migration. Thanks for working with me on this.

Here's an example video of what's going on. LaunchBox 2023-12-12 10-53-29.mp4 Edit: Apologies for the dialogue and child windows not showing, but what I'm doing is right-clicking, edit, then marking the game as installed. Then I "Play" the game, and quit. When I quit, I click the next game cover and go back to GTA, and you can then see that the game has reverted its "Installed" status and offers me to once again install the game. It only reverts after launching and quitting the game. Even though it's offering to Install the game, if I click that Install button, it launches the game just fine.

Is there a way to simply disable the "Install" button and always show the "Play" button instead? I just don't understand why LaunchBox is reverting the "Installed" checkbox after I've already marked the game as installed every single time after quitting the game.

I didn't see it as an additional app when I checked, but I manually added the game and manually inserted the steam id for the launcher. It actually wasn't easy to find the game in the LBDB, but I did end up finding it after some ninja searching.

I actually came here after eXo declined to support me integrating into my existing LaunchBox install and sent me here instead.

Anybody else going through this exercise and have any thoughts or recommendations on resolving this?

Hey all - I have the 2007 RE4 version in my Steam library. I just purchased the remake and imported it into LaunchBox. However, I didn't select the option to force the import of duplicate games. Now, I don't see the new RE4 remake in my library, just the original version, and if I go to import again, it's not listed there, either. How do I find the new RE4 remake purchase and force it to be represented in LaunchBox separately from the original version?

There's a massive difference between a game with a 3.8 rating and a 4.8 rating, but they both sort within the same Star Rating grouping in LaunchBox when you sort by Star Rating. Instead of rounding to whole star values when grouping games sorted by star rating, instead sort them by a decimal point of granularity. This would make a huge difference in the usefulness of this sort by category. Or just don't group them at all and sort purely by the computed Star Rating value (preferably with a minimum number of ratings required from the community - for example for games with at least 5 ratings).

Thank you!

Hey all - I'm trying to set up Teknoparrot, which uses user profile xml files for launching the games. Is there a way to remove the path information, but not the .xml file extension in the Emulator config? The game should be launched as something like --profile=Batman.xml Others have set this up using custom command line parameters, but then this needs to be done individually for every game, which is a bit laborious and cumbersome.

Hey - I've incorporated eXoDOS into my current existing LaunchBox instance. I'm having a weird issue where before I launch a game for the first time, it says "Play", and after I launch the game, the next time it always says "Install" instead of "Play". I can manually edit the status as installed, but again when I launch the game, it ends up again reverting and saying "Install" when I select the game in LaunchBox again the next time. Any idea why this keeps happening or what I can do about it? Interestingly, the game launches always crash when I have the Game Launch Screen option enabled in LaunchBox, as well. I think it has something to do with the launcher .bat file in eXoDOS causing an issue while the overlay screen is present.

I created an entry here: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/8032/profiles-support-multiple-launcher

I'll have to go check if this is captured in BitBucket, but 3 years later and online profiles are more entrenched now than ever. It would really be awesome to have some kind of capability like this in BigBox/LaunchBox. My kids all play games like Fortnite, Rocket League, or whatever, and have their own Epic profiles accordingly. It would be nice to launch a game without having to constantly log out/log in to a new Epic profile on a shared computer. It's such a big issue that I try and guide them to use a Switch instead wherever possible because it's much easier to manage which profile they're launching to on that platform. Unfortunately, there's a lot of "why does everything work better on the computer and the Switch is always so glitchy" moans from them. 😂

My Arrange By is Date Added. I can't really identify when the error is showing. It seems to be at random. It's not at start or after any identifiable activity. Typically I'm not even engaging with Launchbox when the error is encountered. As I mentioned before, sometimes it will result in a crash with endless icons on my task bar, and othertimes it will not crash the app and not cause a bunch of crash icons on my launch bar. My language is English. This error started just a few releases ago. I had not encountered it prior.

It's not the same key every time this happens. Many times, when this happens in happens many, many times in a row, causing exception windows to be rendered across my entire task bar until ultimately Launchbox crashes.