thraxlol Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Hi guys, So.... I setup LB with all my ROM's on a secondary HDD, and I'm now putting together a portable version (which has ROM's under the LB folder structure. I've already got all the metadata and video's etc, but obviously a straight copy/paste means all my ROMs have the wrong file path. Is there any way to select all games per console and edit the folder to the new one? I'm sort of assuming there's not, as the path goes to the file level, not the folder... but thought I'd ask so that I could avoid re-importing if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxlol Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 On a related note... when I re-import it appears to be reaching out and re-downloading media for the games - I want it to use the existing media that I've already got... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxlol Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Hmm, it's not re-downloading media, just reaching out to the database(s) to check/verify which is making it painfully slow, but again I don't expect there's a way around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 There is no bulk edit rom path feature in Launchbox yet though it is something I have been asking Jason for a while. The easiest ways right now is to either remove your games from LB and re-import them or use a text editor like Notepad++ to "find and replace" the path in the platform.xml, this is the way I did it when I moved my roms before. If you do the re-import you can turn off the data and image scraping in the import wizard to speed it up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxlol Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 30 minutes ago, lordmonkus said: The easiest ways right now is to either remove your games from LB and re-import them or use a text editor like Notepad++ to "find and replace" the path in the platform.xml, this is the way I did it when I moved my roms before. Thanks My platforms.xml has no ROM paths in it?.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxlol Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Found it You meant the platform specific xml in LaunchBox\Data\Platforms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 More specifically the xml for the platform you are changing your rom paths for like Sega Genesis.xml in your \LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\ folder. Edit: Yup 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxlol Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Cheers, that'll do nicely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 When you choose to re-import, just uncheck all of the media boxes. The two screens with the "uncheck all" buttons, press those. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxlol Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Yeah, got it all sorted Thanks @SentaiBrad amd @lordmonkus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starfiretbt Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 I see this is an old thread but I also have a similar question. I played a lot of Super Nintendo games on an emulator before I added them and the emulator to launch-box so all my Super Nintendo games are in a folder that is not the folder that launch box keeps making for Super Nintendo games. If I move all my SNES games to the preferred folder by launch box and edit the path using the same method will that work just as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 4 hours ago, starfiretbt said: I see this is an old thread but I also have a similar question. I played a lot of Super Nintendo games on an emulator before I added them and the emulator to launch-box so all my Super Nintendo games are in a folder that is not the folder that launch box keeps making for Super Nintendo games. If I move all my SNES games to the preferred folder by launch box and edit the path using the same method will that work just as well? Yes. There is a rom path change option in LB. Are you moving them because you want to or because LB keeps making the folder? If you do not want to move them you do not have to. LB just makes the folder since that is where it would default to if you want to try and keep the whole LB build contained to make it portable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starfiretbt Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Mainly because LB keeps making the folder so now I have a folder for Super Nintendo Entertainment System and a folder for SNES games. However the LB folder has a nicer title. So I downloaded Notepad++, I assume I need to move all the games to the other folder, open the LaunchBox\data\platforms screen, find Super Nintendo Entertainment System and open with Notepad++, and then find and replace all Games\SNES Games\ with Games\Super Nintendo Entertainment System\. Is this the correct way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 you can move the from within the UI now go to tools and there is an option to change rom folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 On 3/26/2020 at 1:29 PM, DOS76 said: you can move the from within the UI now go to tools and there is an option to change rom folder. Wow, so no more notepad++ find and replace? That is good news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 4 hours ago, damageinc86 said: Wow, so no more notepad++ find and replace? That is good news! The change rom path Dos is talking about has been in LB for quite a long while now. Its not something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 4 hours ago, damageinc86 said: Wow, so no more notepad++ find and replace? That is good news! 9 minutes ago, Retro808 said: The change rom path Dos is talking about has been in LB for quite a long while now. Its not something new. Yeah its only been available for two and a half years. Version 7.11 - Released September 14, 2017 New Premium Feature: A new wall view has been added to the Big Box games lists! New Premium Feature: New Big Box key and controller button mappings have been added for starting Attract Mode on demand, and spinning the wheel while a key or button is pressed (which works well for selecting a random game) New Feature: A new "Launch With" option is available for each emulated game in LaunchBox and Big Box that will let you choose an emulator to use on the fly when launching games. This is available via the right-click or Game menu in LaunchBox and via the Game Details menu in Big Box. It can also be hidden in Big Box via the Game Menu options. New Feature: A new "Change ROMs Folder Path for Selected Games" option is available under the Tools menu in LaunchBox that will allow you to batch edit ROM folder paths for when you move your ROM files. Improvement: Massive performance improvements both in general in Big Box as well as with CoverFlow and the wheels Improvement: Steam Banners have been added as an image group supported for LaunchBox and Big Box Improvement: Searching for games has been significantly improved with support for alternate titles from the LaunchBox Games Database as well as better exact matching Improvement: Alternate titles are now used properly when consolidating games and importing games Improvement: Custom themes in Big Box now support custom images and videos for platform categories and playlists Improvement: A new MaxVerticalImageResolutionOverride property has been added to the Big Box CoverFlow control to allow for larger image sizes Improvement: Added a new TotalGameCount property on platforms for binding in Big Box custom themes Improvement: Added a new BannerImagePath property on games for binding in Big Box custom themes Improvement: SharpDX (which interfaces with DirectX) has been updated to the latest version Improvement: Upgraded the included version of VLC to version 2.2.6 Fixed: Occasionally LaunchBox was experiencing unnecessary slowdowns due to threading issues when switching side bar selections or arrange by values Fixed: Connecting and syncing your collection to the LaunchBox Games Database was broken since we converted the website to use HTTPS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 My lord. I just used notepad++ for this like a month ago lol. Guess I wasn't paying attention. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starfiretbt Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Hey guys that worked really well. I would have thanked you guys sooner but I didn't know you guys responded. I thought I would get an email if you guys said something, I didn't. But I came back because I was about to do the notepad++ hacking on my own. I don't know if there is a section of the forum for this but you guess really do a great job. I also wanted to thank you guys for how you design the "clean up media" feature (I think it was the clean up media" feature). I wanted LB to go through and get rid of files I wasn't using but I use LB to store other game related files so when I transfer to a new computer all I have to do is move LB and I was worried those would get deleted. I hoped the clean media would find and give me the option to select what I wanted deleted and it turned out it already did. It worked exactly as I hoped it would so I just wanted to tell you guys you are doing an amazing job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Just used this to update my arcade roms path and it said that 7 of the files selected do not exist in the new directory so i selected don't update those but update the rest. Is there a way to find out which 7 games it didn't find in the new path? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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