UncleDaddySwiss Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 (edited) I have around 9500 (give or take) games imported so far, and I just checked the size of the images folder and it is around 46GB, yes, Gigabytes, in size. Is this normal?? I have done a lot of importing and deleting of games over the past several weeks, trying to organize and such, but yesterday I did the clear images option in Launchbox, which said that it deleted over 13000 images. So the current size doesnt seem right to me. I do not have any videos at all. Thanks Edit: also, another question about this is, do people download media from launchbox games DB AND emumovies? Like front box art from both, etc? Edited September 7, 2016 by UncleDaddySwiss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 This is definitely possible. My current image folder is around 14 gigs, and I really don't have that many systems in it at this point. Images can be rather large, and we've chosen to allow very large images on the LaunchBox Games Database, so yes it can take a very large amount of space. There are utilities you can use to compress/reduce the size of the images. There's a recent thread around here that might help, but I don't have the link handy for the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleDaddySwiss Posted September 7, 2016 Author Share Posted September 7, 2016 Ok, thanks for the reply, I have actually decided to reinstall Launchbox from scratch. This time in Dropbox, as it was just on a data drive in my gaming PC. I know you have suggested this before, and I'm just getting around to it now. I think what I will try is to do 2 "passes", first with LB games DB, and then fill in the holes with EmuMovies on pass 2, using " Download metadata and images" option. I'm sorry for being so complicated, I just dont have much experience with front ends, this is my first one. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Just to warn you in advance If you do 2 passes with both DB's you will have a crazy amount of duplicate screenshots. Your image folder will be very large then. Certain images type LB can't differentiate so images like that will get added every time and you could ended 4 of the same image if it is hosted on both sites and you run two passes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleDaddySwiss Posted September 7, 2016 Author Share Posted September 7, 2016 I was thinking of doing "Only fill in missing metadata and images" or however the option is worded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 That option can't determine that the images are the same as the ones you already have for those categories and it will download them every time as to my understanding but I could be mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleDaddySwiss Posted September 7, 2016 Author Share Posted September 7, 2016 Ah, that might be a problem then...Maybe I'll just go with LB DB for now then. Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 No, if you tell the wizard not to replace any metadata, it will only download new images for empty image categories. In other words, it will only download box art for games that don't have any existing box art. What it *won't* do is download additional screenshots, for example, if screenshots are exist for that game, even if they are new. It will only download images for image types that don't have any existing images for that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Sorry about that before you added the additional image types which specified what type they are wasn't it different I remember ending up with a bunch a dupes and I thought that was the explanation. Oh well sorry again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 No worries @DOS76. Always appreciate your help and time here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleDaddySwiss Posted September 8, 2016 Author Share Posted September 8, 2016 Not a problem, sounds like it should work, then. I appreciate all the help. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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