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Moving the LB Images & Videos folders to an External Hard Drive


VectrexFan920

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A very happy paid/full member & am having a really good time putting it all together. As I have 80+ platforms/systems added I'm finding I'll have a space crunch coming down the line as I add more (especially newer) ones. I've currently got LB on a 1TB SSD drive I installed in my laptop (A Dell G7 with an i7-8750H, 32 GB of RAM and GTX 1060 max-Q GPU) , I've "only" got about 267gb of empty space on the 1TB  ssd, I checked the amount of space the Images & Videos LB folders are taking up & it's quite a bit (135gb for Images & 156gb for Videos).  It would be nice to offload these two folders onto my 8TB WD external HD for some extra space, can it be done? If so, how? If there is a tutorial video for this, please point me in it's direction, thank you.

I already "run from present location" games from that 8tb drive for disc-based systems like the Dreamcast, so I figure this should be do-able somehow...

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  • 6 months later...

Hi,

You could move your artwork to get space on your drive, but I would suggest it would be easier to move your roms for specific systems to achieve the space you want. It's a simpler process. Although if you want to move art then you could, you would have to then relink  your folder structure to the external drive. Best bet in that case would be use the same directory tree structure and change only the drive letter so there would be less to change in LB.

 

CHEERS B

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