MichaelBolton Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 This is a disaster! My entire launchbox system was working perfecly for several days. I used amazon drive to sync the entire thing to other computers. I was under the assumption that everything would stay portable and all the paths were relative. I just launched launchbox and found that randomly a huge portion of seeminly random things have broken paths now. I discovered that some paths have "..\" appended to the beginning of them. This doesn't make any sense, I didn't change any paths, and that wouldn't be the path. I am watching these paths break in real time! For examlpe, n64 was just working, but now the path for the images and video and manual have all changed to up one folder and now it's broken. It also changed the path to the emulators, so literally every single rom is broken now because the emulator it expects has changed to ../ Please tell me I am not crazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 If you have ../ instead of a drive letter, that means the relative path is working. So what is exactly happening? Is anything actually broken and not loading? As long as you kept the folder structure past the /../, you should be good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBolton Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 the correct path would be "images\arcade" the path changed itself to "..\images\arcade" so now it thinks the images folder has been moved outside of the launchbox folder....... but only a couple of systems or some roms or some folders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBolton Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 I have discovered dozens of conflicted files. Seems I didn't close launchbox before I launched it on another computer. It made a horrible conflicted file problem. May god have mercy on my soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Ugh. Sorry to hear about all that @MichaelBolton. Honestly I haven't tried using Amazon to sync anything this complicated before. I will say that I tried using Google Drive a while back and it was horribly buggy, so I know that some of the cloud service providers don't do a good job with the file sync stuff. I swear by Dropbox because it just works; that's what I personally use for my own collection and I never see any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBolton Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 Dropbox would have done the same thing had I made this mistake. It too creates conflicted files if you try to save something that is open on another computer.Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 4 minutes ago, MichaelBolton said: Dropbox would have done the same thing had I made this mistake. It too creates conflicted files if you try to save something that is open on another computer. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk Yeah, but I've never seen it cause weird folder issues like that; that still puzzles me a bit. Also, LaunchBox goes out of its way *not* to cause problems like that if possible. For instance, only XML files that actually change get updated, and files are always refreshed before rewriting them. That way, it shouldn't cause any issues to have two copies of LaunchBox open on two different computers. So I honestly don't know what might have happened to cause all that trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBolton Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Yeah, but I've never seen it cause weird folder issues like that; that still puzzles me a bit. Also, LaunchBox goes out of its way *not* to cause problems like that if possible. For instance, only XML files that actually change get updated, and files are always refreshed before rewriting them. That way, it shouldn't cause any issues to have two copies of LaunchBox open on two different computers. So I honestly don't know what might have happened to cause all that trouble. Yeah, It looks like I messed up the paths. I've solved it now, thanks for the input. To be clear, I had launchbox and everything in it on the root of a drive (a mapped network drive). For some reason, some of my paths had ../ in front of them and some didn't! this worked on other computers with the same mapping because everything lived in the root and that was a far back as ..\ could go. Once i synced it to another computer and it was now z:\launchbox\launchbox.exe instead of z:\launchbox. I just have to fix all the relative paths once and my library should work from then on. Edited March 2, 2017 by MichaelBolton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBolton Posted March 3, 2017 Author Share Posted March 3, 2017 so it seems that if the launchbox exists on the root of the drive, all paths that are created have a ..\ in front of them. This is okay as long as it doesn't exist elsewhere in a folder like z:\launchbox\launchbox.exe instead of z:\launchbox.exe. I guess I will start fix all my paths once I move it one folder deeper and hope it works from there, or start over and rebuild an entirely new library.... ugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Wow, that's interesting. I'll take a look to see what I can do about that; if that's the case, I'm surprised it hasn't come up before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBolton Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 Wow, that's interesting. I'll take a look to see what I can do about that; if that's the case, I'm surprised it hasn't come up before.I have tested it. It is reproduced.Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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