NLS Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 (edited) OK, so I had LB installed on a machine I didn't actually use it (part of my experiments with LB). I forgot about it for months and then thought, what a heck, let's try to use it in this computer with local games etc. So I updated it to 8.6 (don't remember which version it was before), which was fine. When I opened LB I realized I *had* some Windows games imported in it in the past, but since I didn't remember what I did back then, I thought of doing it from scratch. Well tough luck. Nothing is ever deleted. It shows deleted, but when reopening LB, they are all back! I even tried running it with administrator rights, in case it couldn't modify or remove something, no change. I tried deleting by select all (ctrl-A), then delete. I tried right click on platform and delete. I tried to go in manage platforms, select it and delete. "Deletes" ok every time and every time they are back when restarted. I guess going manually to some XMLs and doing it will work, but still this looks bad if I cannot do it from LB itself. Any ideas? EDIT: I checked the XML and they are indeed populated. The strange thing though is that their timestamp is fresh! (Windows.xml, platforms.xml and some others) So something "touches" them (and doesn't fail) but games (or platform itself) not deleted! Edited September 7, 2018 by NLS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 @NLS I don't think this is common, but I believe we might have an occasional issue when deleting the very last platform, or deleting all the games in your collection. Sorry for that; it should only come up in that specific situation, and it's on my list of things to address. It should be easy enough to just delete your LaunchBox\Data folder entirely if you want to start over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLS Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 It is indeed that specific situation. OK thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLS Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 (edited) Erm... it is getting worse and weirder. I deleted the contents of data (with LB not running). Started LB and it started WITH THE CONTENTS!!! I quit. I re-deleted them. I start it and now I get an error Could not find a part of the path 'E:\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\Windows.xml'. App: LaunchBox Version: 8.6 Type: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException Site: Void (Unbroken.LaunchBox.Data.DataManager, System.Data.DataSet, System.String) Source: Unbroken.LaunchBox at (DataManager , DataSet , String ) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Data.DataManager.GenerateXml(DataSet set, String destinationPath) at (DataManager , String ) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Data.DataManager.SaveInternal(String destinationFolder) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Data.DataManager.<>c__DisplayClass164_0.<Save>b__0() at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart() Recent Log: 9:28:24 PM Music.Prepare Start 9:28:24 μμ Music.Kill Start 9:28:24 μμ Music.Kill Finished 9:28:24 μμ Music.NotifyTrackList Start 9:28:24 μμ Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 9:28:29 PM Music.Pause Start 9:28:41 PM Exception ...of course you cannot find that because I deleted it! What is going on? EDIT: I found "launchbox.xml" in my launchbox folder... I suspect I need to delete this too as it has the contents I don't need. Why is it there? Edited September 7, 2018 by NLS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Oh, I misread, one sec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Did you delete the entire Data folder? It's possible that LB was still running in the background when you did it. Make sure that it's not in Task Manager still saving everything when you delete it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Launchbox.xml is old and deprecated definitely you should delete that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLS Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 (edited) Well seems that 8.6 still reads it if it finds it. A bug I'd say. When I deleted that, things worked. Edited September 7, 2018 by NLS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Just now, NLS said: Well seems that 8.6 still reads it if it finds it. A bug I'd say. When I deleted that, things worked. Ah, I see. Good to know. So apparently the upgrade process is bugged from versions that are that old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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