best option for changing partial game directories

[bmonomad]

Wanted advice on this before I completely screw up my big launchbox database.

I'm installing an additional hard drive for more storage, and moving half of my current games there.  I will *not* be moving the original launchbox folder, so images/manual's etc will be in the original folder.  I simply want to move a portion of games.

What is the best way to change the path's seamlessly?  and is it just the path of the game, or do other paths have to be altered as well?

Thank you!

[Lordmonkus]

Notepad++ with the find and replace all tool to edit the xml file is probably the best way, you can edit each of the platforms xml files to change the rom paths.

[bmonomad]

On 5/15/2017 at 2:53 PM, lordmonkus said:

Notepad++ with the find and replace all tool to edit the xml file is probably the best way, you can edit each of the platforms xml files to change the rom paths.

Thank you for your reply a while back.

I've successfully changed folders for all platforms except 1: issue i've run into is I can't seem to figure out how to change the Dosbox application path for all my games.  Edited all xml's with references to it, including ones in /data folder; all emulator/platform paths match in launchbox (it even shows the correct amount of associated games here).  Seems no matter what I do, each game still lists the old drive location.  Any suggestions?

to elaborate more on the problem:

I edit the DOS.xml file under data folder to change the drive location (it's already changed in other xml documents).  I save it and close.  As soon as i open launchbox, it seems the changes get overwritten by something and I can't quite figure it out.  When I open the same file again, all the changes I previously made are reverted.  This is the only document being changed.

[bmonomad]

bump.

anyone have any ideas why dos xml config files keep being overridden?

thanks