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Thanks for looking into this Jason, and interesting to see what the issue is. In my mind, "platform categories" had been categories of platforms, and nothing more - the highest level of categorisation. Below that is platforms. In my scheme I had regions next - which are not categories of platform, hence I had not used the platform category for this. What else would I label "regions" as here? It's not a platform either. Just a playlist, really. I tried to test your theory - but how do I change a playlist to a platform category?

Thanks Jason. Just PM'd you with my zipped data folder.

@deliyuerek85 I’ve had the same issue.

Hi @Jason Carr, yes the game count aren't displaying in some of the parent folders. If I understand you correctly, then the "regions" list (seen below) should show the total game count of all the sub-lists - but instead it shows "0": Also, wee question - if the exact same game/rom appears in 2 playlists (due to meeting their criteria), is it counted twice in the cumulative total specified next to the parent folders?

I will check and let you know. Actual game count is an even better idea than item count. With all these different sorting options, it would be nice to be able to set the box size/view options independently for each category (or at least platform) too.

@Jason Carr - I have not seen the aforementioned problem since (the platform categories showing zero on update to the latest beta). I notice that another forum user mentioned this problem as well, and the same fix worked for him (changing view to platforms then back to platform categories/restarting Launchbox). So hopefully all is well!

Something I've noticed - regarding the platform selection window and the game counts. Game counts are great. However, with the new nested feature, a lot of the "parent" folders have a count of 0 - because there are no games in them. There might be some sub-folders however. I think it would be an improvement if the count in this scenario would show the number of "items" (this would include sub-folders), not just games. Makes mores sense to me and makes the number useful in this scenario.

My aim is to have the different regions for a platform listed under the platform. I have imported all games for the platform without combining, so each ROM is listed separately. Making auto-playlists for region works. The root folder contains all the roms (including multiple versions for region) and the region folders just contain the roms for that region. See: The problem is, I don't want the duplication in the root folder, as I want the game counts to be accurate. I therefore tried combining games, and making sure the region field contained all the relevant regions. This works, but there is one problem - the same "version" of the game appears as the default under each region. For example, the North America version will be the default for North America, Japan and Europe. So my question is - how can I make it so that the correct version appears in each of the auto-populated playlists (whilst still being able to combine the games)?

Just loaded up the new beta (8.2) for the first time. 2 of my platform categories (computers and consoles) just show 0. There used to be 5 or 6 platform in each before! Any advice? See pic: EDIT: switching around the view settings seems to have fixed it!

Brilliant update Jason! This feature will take the organisational capabilities of Launchbox onto another level. Nice work. Sounds like the teething issues are being addressed pretty pronto too. Going to try it out as soon as the update has finished. Quick question - there's a lot of talk about nesting categories & platforms etc. Can it be used to group ROMs? For example, having USA and JAP under NES, for example?

Thanks a lot. I think the photoy2k box isn't correct though. Keep em' coming!

Further to my post above, the problem has currently disappeared. No idea why The only thing that I have done is an image cleanup. Whether that was related to it, I don't know. Glad the problem has gone away for now. Will let you know if any more developments. Thanks for the input

My NAS is not a Windows PC - it is an actual NAS - Synology DS1812+. The files are accessible from my PC over the network (ethernet). It was my understanding that the standard Backblaze would not cover this and that I would have to go the uber-expensive business route as described above. Delighted to be corrected if I am wrong!

NAS is setup as per usual - NAS connected to router, with other devices in the house accessing it over wifi or ethernet.

Because the standard one doesn’t do NAS, right?

Backblaze personal doesn't do NAS though, right? I see that the business plan does "NAS backup via B2" but this costs $5 per terabyte per month. So say you have 25TB of data on your NAS, that is $125 per month or $1500 a year. This is not a tenable solution for a Launchbox user. Is there any affordable way to back up a NAS to the cloud?

I would echo Fistydollars’ point about the total game counts - the total game count is useful to know how many actual games you have for a platform, and including duplicates as contained in various playlists doesn’t seem to fit with this.

Many thanks for your replies @Jason Carr. If you haven’t come across this problem elsewhere then it is likely something specific to my machine. The funny thing is that I’m fairly sure that the problem didn’t exist up until around a month ago, and I have been using Launchbox (including with MAME) for around 2 years now. Interesting thought regarding the under-performing. The CPU does seem to be almost maxing out though - with LB using around 85% on average at these times. Is it possible that it is an image caching problem? I have wondered about this as my LB seems to re-cache images fairly often. Does caching use CPU or GPU? Also, if I "narrow" the windows contents in MAME by doing a search for a game and then editing, the problem doesn't occur.

Are any of these online services good for users in the UK?

Sorry for the delay in my reply. The problem is still happening unfortunately. Main problem is with MAME - likely due to the larger number of games. Computer specs: Machine: Macbook Pro 2016 model 17" CPU: Intel i7-6700HQ; includes Intel HD Graphics 530 GPU: Intel Radeon Pro 450 RAM: 16GB OS: Windows 10 (running on a Bootcamp partition) Monitor: external LG 27UK600 4K monitor Collection size: 25,968 games - but I think this includes duplication as the total count seems to include both platforms and playlists Thanks again @Jason Carr!

Brilliant Jason! Really impressed with the constant updates and improvements here. For what it's worth, here is my "wishlist": 1. Nested folders 2. Being able to set image parameters (size, spacing, aspect ratio etc) per system/platform, instead of one setting across the board. 3. An increased focus on the systems/platforms, rather than just the games. In BigBox we get the nice screen with the platform info & platform video. We do not get this in Launchbox, and have to go to edit platform where we get the info but no video. It would be great in Launchbox if there was an easy and slick way to view the platform info & video. Also include more options for platform images - instead of the current banner, clear logo, device and fanart, have extra categories like device box, controller, device manual etc. Also, allow more than 1 platform video. 4. Ability to easily view the videos fullscreen in Launchbox, like you can do with the images. 5. An improvement to the image viewer in Launchbox. When viewing images in fullscreen, it would be nice to have small icons to the left of the screen so the user knows which images are there to cycle through. 6. Incorporation of the MAME info files to add more depth to the MAME metadata. 7. A "true" 3D box option, which can be rotated & flipped just like a real box. 8. The ability to use a second screeen in Launchbox to display the art, just like you can in BigBox. Also, the ability to use 3 screens. Just some food for thought!

Care to share @rexryan?

That looks pretty good! How did you get the logo? And do we want 2D or 3D boxes?

HI Jason - I have Windows defender that came with Windows 10, though looking at it just now, I don't think that I have any "virus and threat protection" enabled. The other options under that menu say "no action needed". I don't have any other antivirus, antispam or antimalware apps running I don't think.