BigMess...I hope someone can help me figure this

[nemesys]

Hey guys, I've really fucked up. By mistake I damaged windows 10, and I'm unable to recover it. So I installed a new copy of windows on a new HD. I installed LB and copy the old files into the new folders. I get this error. Could someone please help me with this? Thank you guys

 

[Lordmonkus]

It looks like your Launchbox folder is set to read only. Go to where you Launchbox folder is, right click the folder and then properties, then go to the security tab and change the settings in there to allow writing.

I also highly suggest not having Launchbox in the Documents folder, put it on another drive if possible or right on the root of C:\ drive if that is not an option.

[nemesys]

Thank you so much for your answer. I will give it a shot, my launchbox got installed under c:\Users\name\Launchbox I hope it's ok there.

[Lordmonkus]

It's probably ok there. Out of years of habit I never install anything to that folder, in fact I rarely install anything but basic programs to C:\ drive. I tend to install big things like games and stuff to another hard drive all together. Just habit from the old days Windows 95 and 98 and its awfulness and how often it would need to be reinstalled made it good practice to keep important stuff off C:\.

[nemesys]

You have a great point, I do remember the old windows 95 and also how many times I had to reinstall it. I am very sad my launchbox, I spent about 2 months working on the metadata for MAME, filtering the one by one, I ended up with 1740, and I just want to recover my main data, just to see the games again. I don't mind if I have to download all the metadata again...Any ideas my friend?

[Lordmonkus]

Unless you got a backup like on another drive or a cloud backup I have nothing.

[nemesys]

No luck, I still get the same error. I think i'm doomed

[Lordmonkus]

Check the xml file in the error message and see if it has read and write permissions or just read.

[SentaiBrad]

You could just move your LaunchBox install to a different drive, it's completely portable.

[nemesys]

I hope Jason can see this and tell me what to do,

[SentaiBrad]

But I just did. Move your LaunchBox install to a different location, like a different hard drive. This is a permissions error.

[nemesys]

Hi Brad, I will try it right now, thank you!

[RetroHumanoid]

or try running the program as administrator...but,moving it like brad said should fix it.

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[nemesys]

I tried moving to my root c: and didn't work. I do see all my metadata, but all the emulators are gone. I tried reseting the path to where the emulators are and then got the error again.

 

"Check the xml file in the error message and see if it has read and write permissions or just read. "

 

where do I find that xml?

[RetroHumanoid]

well,by moving it,he meant to an entirely different drive...you have to get it off the C drive and onto a different one.

As far as the xml location,the path to it is right in the picture you linked in the first post you made.

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[nemesys]

Thank you for all the advise. I got things to where I don't get that error anymore. I had to manually correct the emulator settings to the right harddrive. The problem I face now is that for my arcade games is reading the incorrect path. Instead of looking going to letter D: is going to C:, that means that I would have to correct one of each of the 1740 games I have going to the right path. Is there an easier way to correct this? Please help me I am so close to get my arcade running back again.

[Lordmonkus]

Use notepad++ to edit the Data\Platforms\Arcade.xml file to change the path of your roms. Notepad++ has a find and replace all tool so you would find D:\path\to\roms and replace it with C:\path\to\roms or whatever fits your circumstance.

[nemesys]

lordmonkus that made it! I have to do the same for each platform but it's easy. I thank you all guys very much, you guys are the shitsnitz!

[Lordmonkus]

[nemesys]

guys...everything went to shit again!!! I am so fed up...Now some roms load and other don't, I checked with the emulator directly and runs the roms fine. What in the world could it be???