Missing paths but not really

[Emulation_Guru]

Ok idk if this is correct location so here goes... I have several emus on my other systems that keeps saying they are missing when in fact they are in their correct location... I have already deleted over 5 systems not knowing how to correct this issue...

I am in my consoles section and I don't want to go and tell LaunchBox that the game is in its correct location thousands of times! PLEASE HELP...

Edited February 28, 2017 by RetroGaming

[Lordmonkus]

Bulk edit the xml file with Notepad++ to find and replace the rom paths.

And good god that is one messed up folder path naming system you have going there.

[Emulation_Guru]

27 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

Bulk edit the xml file with Notepad++ to find and replace the rom paths.

And good god that is one messed up folder path naming system you have going there.

needed that lol but i haven't figured out how to bulk edit in np++ yet can you help me  out? @lordmonkus

[Lordmonkus]

Press Control + F to bring up the find tool, then go to the replace tab. In the "Find what" box put the text you want to replace and in the "Replace with" box the full path you want it to change.

[Emulation_Guru]

4 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

Press Control + F to bring up the find tool, then go to the replace tab. In the "Find what" box put the text you want to replace and in the "Replace with" box the full path you want it to change.

settings.xml file or something else?

[Lordmonkus]

the xml for the platform of games you want to edit

 

[Emulation_Guru]

2 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

the xml for the platform of games you want to edit

 

i am overthinking this man i hate to have to delete all this work and start over but seems like my only option.. unless i can see somone do this reading it doesn't register as well with all i got going on

[Emulation_Guru]

don't know what to do after this part even though you typed it still doesn't make sense to me... @lordmonkus

 

 

Edited February 28, 2017 by RetroGaming

[Lordmonkus]

You want the replace tab.

[Emulation_Guru]

Just now, lordmonkus said:

You want the replace tab.

found te issue the roms are still in same place just the hard drive path Use to be K:\ now it has changed to L:\ so I need to take every ''K:" and replace them all with "L:'' idk how it changed just from me unplugging it and plugging it back in exact same place i always had it my external HD i mean...

so how do i search for all the K's to change them to L's?

[Lordmonkus]

If the file paths are identical except the drive letter in the "Find what" box put

K:\

and then in the "Replace with" box put

L:\

If the folder structure is actually different though you will want to replace the path with the new path so for example if your old roms was in something like:

E:\Downloaded Games\Emulation\Roms\Mame\

and your new location is:

H:\Emulation\Roms\Mame\

All you would need to do is put

E:\Downloaded Games\

in the "Find what" box, and then in the "Replace with" box you would put:

H:\

I hope this all makes more sense now.

[Emulation_Guru]

1 minute ago, lordmonkus said:

If the file paths are identical except the drive letter in the "Find what" box put

K:\

and then in the "Replace with" box put

L:\

If the folder structure is actually different though you will want to replace the path with the new path so for example if your old roms was in something like:

E:\Downloaded Games\Emulation\Roms\Mame\

and your new location is:

H:\Emulation\Roms\Mame\

All you would need to do is put

E:\Downloaded Games\

in the "Find what" box, and then in the "Replace with" box you would put:

H:\

I hope this all makes more sense now.

figure it out before tis post... man i wish i hadn't deleted all my setups but now I know thanks for everything