porterballs Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Hello i'm buying myself a M.2 drive tomorrow for OS, which leaves me with a SSD to use for what ever. I want to move my launchbox folder over to the SSD, currently its installed on my hard drive which also has all my rom's on it. I only want to move launchbox! i'm going to keep the rom's on the hard drive, how would i go about this? i want to keep all my images and game video clips i don't fancy downloading them all again lol. With the metadata i don't mind downloading that from launchbox again as long as it pulls in my existing media, i was thinking of downloading a fresh copy of launchbox copying over my media "box art, game play videos" and then importing all my rom's again. Hope this is making sense and any help would be great thank you :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 (edited) You have two options really you can move LB to your other drive and then delete all of your platforms but do not delete any of the media you already downloaded it will still be there when you reimport you ROMs again you will just chose not to download any of the media from the LBGDB or Emumovies this will speed up the import exponentially. Your other option is to not delete anything and to use Notepad++ to edit the paths to your game from the old path to the new path. You will use the find and replace function found in the Search section of the menu bar. you will type in you old paths and then hit count to make sure it finds them in the xml and then you switch to the replace tab and type in the new path and hit the option to replace all. Save the xml. You have to have LB closed while you perform the editing so make sure it is closed before you attempt to do it with this method. You will have to do it for every platform Edited February 20, 2017 by DOS76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porterballs Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 thanks for the reply, the first option sounds good to me i don't mind having to import the metadata again just not the media so cheers mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 There is also another option. You could make a symbolic link with mklink so your current LB drive and folder points to anywhere you want on your SSD. That's it , you don't have to do anything else. So, you would cut your current Launchbox folder from your hard drive and paste it onto your SSD (that moves the folder). Then you would run the mklink command to create a Launchbox link where launchbox used to be on your hard drive and supply the path to where you moved it to on your SSD. That's it. To LB and everything else, they will all still think your LB was not changed or moved but it really was. Here is an example of mklink command for changing a folder to a different drive: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porterballs Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 ok mate thats great info i will look into that getting my M.2 tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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