Move / set Launchbox Image folder location

[jsolack]

Hello all,

I would like to move my images folder off my C: drive and i'm wondering if there's an option for this.  I have tried making a symbolic link to the $HOME\LaunchBox folder and now it's crashing.

 

Thanks for any help!

 

Jason

[SentaiBrad]

Go to Tools -> Manage Platforms, double click your platform then go to the folders tab. You'd need to do it for all of those folders though, so I would suggest moving your entire LB install to your new drive.

[jsolack]

Thank you for the reply! I am early enough in this to just start fresh!

 

[SentaiBrad]

No need to start fresh really. All of your images are on the same hard drive as LaunchBox, which means they use a relative path. So you can move your LaunchBox install to a different hard drive, and as long as they're still in that same folder structure, they work. If your games and emulators are on a different drive, then it must assign a letter to that path so it knows where to look. If they're on the same drive, they also get a relative path. Images just happen to be inside the LB install, but as long as anything you import in to LB is on the same drive, it uses a relative path, meaning as long as everything stays in the same folder structure you can move it to any hard drive you want as it doesn't care what drive letter you are using, it's a relative path. It just assumes that what ever you're loading is on the same drive. It only becomes an issue with moving things if you have absolute paths and a drive letter gets assigned. Does that make any sense? I hope I made sense.

[jsolack]

Thank you SentaiBrad - that makes total sense and it's a easy solution to move the whole folder!