eXo Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 You can put it anywhere you want, but the whole point is you can't just point the new torrent to your old collection. You have to place the old collection *inside* a new folder for the new torrent to see it properly. I don't believe anyone ever said it had to be on a local drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 45 minutes ago, Dan said: Erm....do we have to copy the entire 220GB exodos folder to the LB install folder on our local machine? There’s no way I have that much free space. All my games and ROMs are stored on a NAS. Surely this step isn’t necessary? Exo? Copying the folder to LB install folder enables the games to be launched from LB. Afaik if the exodos folder is elsewhere the games won’t launch due to the xml containing the launch paths. I might be wrong but the games wouldn’t launch for me in my existing LB install without the folder being in the correct place. @eXo is this the case?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Surely it’s possible to have LB on the local drive and the ROMs elsewhere with more storage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryoke Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 9 minutes ago, Dan said: Surely it’s possible to have LB on the local drive and the ROMs elsewhere with more storage? I hope so or I'm well and truly ********** 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Can you confirm exo? And if we can do this, does it change your instructions at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXo Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The only way to move the rom to a different folder is to go in and edit each games LB entry. Specifically, if you right click a game and edit it, you will see a tab that says "game folder". That points to the launch file. If you move the launch file, it won't find the actual games zip file. So you have to move all the games and the "!dos" folder in the games folder. The "!dos" folder is the launch files. Once you move all that, you have the edit the games folder in LB so it can find the new files. I presume it could be done by editting the xml file and using a search & replace, however this would still break all of the "game extras" unless you edit all those paths as well. Essentially, it could possibly be done - but that is on you to figure out. The short of it is you need the exodos folder setup properly, you need the front end files extracted from the gamesadv.zip file (something my setup process does), and then you need to move all this (as a group to retain relative file paths) to whereever you want it to reside. You then have to go in and exit the MS-DOS.xml file to reflect this change in path. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Oh dear! So it's not very easy as harryoke and I were hoping! Would it be possible exo to have LB on the external drive too? And then have the games inside that LB folder? Was really hoping to have LB local (along with all the media), with the games on the NAS (like to for the rest of my 10TB collection). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintersdark Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 I'd recommend making symbolic links if you need Launchbox installed elsewhere. Be the simplest way to have LB think eXoDOS is local while the bulk of the data is actually elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 That sounds ideal Wintersdark! Any further hints on how to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintersdark Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 10 minutes ago, Dan said: Oh dear! So it's not very easy as harryoke and I were hoping! Would it be possible exo to have LB on the external drive too? And then have the games inside that LB folder? Was really hoping to have LB local (along with all the media), with the games on the NAS (like to for the rest of my 10TB collection). In windows: Mklink /j C:\Launchbox\Games P:\ROMs\eXoDOS\eXoDOS\Games Obviously, adjust folders as to where things actually are, but the command above would make it look like there was a Games folder inside Launchbox, but that would actually point to P:\ROMs\eXoDOS\eXoDOS\Games. To Launchbox, everything would be on drive C:. Thus: P:\ROMs\eXoDOS\eXoDOS\Games\File.zip And C:\Launchbox\Games\File.zip both point to the same file . So, you just move the XML's, then use links to trick Launchbox into thinking those files are local. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Wow, invaluable advice, many thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Dan said: Oh dear! So it's not very easy as harryoke and I were hoping! Would it be possible exo to have LB on the external drive too? And then have the games inside that LB folder? Was really hoping to have LB local (along with all the media), with the games on the NAS (like to for the rest of my 10TB collection). I run Launchbox entirely on an external USB 8TB drive myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Wintersdark said: I'd recommend making symbolic links if you need Launchbox installed elsewhere. Be the simplest way to have LB think eXoDOS is local while the bulk of the data is actually elsewhere. Exactly...I have all my images/cache on my SSD drive with symbolic links, it does help with the performance for sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverest Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 for Symlinks I recommend this tool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/symlink-creator/ no command line needed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Ive tried these symbolic links, but i cannot get an eXoDOS game to launch even tho LB recognizes its there. Also if i try to run an eXoDOS game that hasnt been run before, it asks to install (as expected) but does not do so when told to. I will just stick to having the torrent seeding from my LB folder, much easier in opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 I take it that these links also work to locations on a network drive (all my space-intensive material is on a NAS on my local home network, connected via ethernet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelobodetti Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Sorry if I missed the answer to this. Are we able to import this into our existing LaumchBox setup? Or do we need to use the LaunchBox instance that is bundled with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Play Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Dear Angelo please look for earlier exo messages in here. He gave all info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintersdark Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 15 hours ago, Dan said: 31 minutes ago, Newlander said: is there anyway to split up a combined 2.0 set? as in all volumes are merged into one? so i can upgrade to v3? No need. Just download them all to the same folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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