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How to remove unwanted platforms from side bar for good ?


Teusan

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My problem here is that launchbox side bar is showing too many platforms in the side bar, I like having essentials, something clean. 

I delete unwanted platforms which contain sometimes only one game, like "cave" "midway classics" or "sammy atomiswave". But everytime I add a new game, these platforms keep coming back and then I'd have to delete them again. 

So that's it. 

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Those sound like playlists, not platforms. If you go to Tools -> Manage Platforms, and delete a platform from here, well the games will be orphaned unless you let LB also remove the game, but that should remove the platform from being in the LaunchBox file structure at all (unless there is media for it). It should remove the XML or references to it.

If you remove the game, and a platform has 0 games, it also wont show up at all. If those are playlists, then you'll need to go to the playlist section and deal with them. In the left bar, on the top, is a drop down menu. Click that, then playlists. You can right click playlists for some options or right click the empty space to bring up the playlists menu.

From that drop down on the left of LB, you can also select Platform Categories. That's how I have mine set, so everything is under Consoles, Handhelds, Computers or Playlists. You need to edit a playlist and tell it what platform category to be in if you go that route,.

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2 hours ago, SentaiBrad said:

Those sound like playlists, not platforms. If you go to Tools -> Manage Platforms, and delete a platform from here, well the games will be orphaned unless you let LB also remove the game, but that should remove the platform from being in the LaunchBox file structure at all (unless there is media for it). It should remove the XML or references to it.

If you remove the game, and a platform has 0 games, it also wont show up at all. If those are playlists, then you'll need to go to the playlist section and deal with them. In the left bar, on the top, is a drop down menu. Click that, then playlists. You can right click playlists for some options or right click the empty space to bring up the playlists menu.

From that drop down on the left of LB, you can also select Platform Categories. That's how I have mine set, so everything is under Consoles, Handhelds, Computers or Playlists. You need to edit a playlist and tell it what platform category to be in if you go that route,.

Great, that was it. I deleted playlists and it shows exactly as I hoped. Thank you. 

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  • 2 weeks later...

So the thing wasn't totally fixed after all, playlists still came back when I added new roms that fitted these playlists. 

While tweaking I found that editing playlists allows to tick "include this playslist in platforms list", I unticked it and it seems to do the trick. 

Thank you for helping

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As I wrote, I Did. But they keep coming back when I add a new rom that belonged to one of the playlists. 

Let's say I deleted the playlists xml files, I add metal slug rom and then as soon as I finish downloading the pictures playlists show up in the platform list. 

The way I did works, playlists won't show if I don't want them to. 

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