ziki Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 I was inside LaunchBox yesterday, and i was editing game info, to check mark some games into "completed" status, when suddenly there was a power outage and the pc shut down abruptly. When it finished rebooting and i was welcomed with the message root element is missing and some other sentences and i cannot go into launchbox. Probable something was being written into the launchbox configuration at the time the pc shut down and it now got corrupted. Read some posts about deleteing system.xml Where may i find it, and if this does not solve the problem what else can i do. It would be lengthy to reset launchbox and start from a clean slate Quote
dragon57 Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 Look in the Backups directory to see if a copy of the file you were editing is there. If so, try the latest one. If that one is also corrupt, continue to go back one version until you find one that gets things starting again. Quote
ziki Posted September 27, 2018 Author Posted September 27, 2018 I tried all 5 of the backup settings.xml its a no go. Populating dialog takes longer but still i get that same message. Do i also need to replace other files from the backup folder Quote
ziki Posted September 27, 2018 Author Posted September 27, 2018 I'm downloading latest launchbox version. At least how can i move artwork and everything from before into new installation and create the new system.xml from there Quote
Retro808 Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 Something does not look right. There should not be a Windows.xml file in the root of the data folder. Copy the Windows.xml file in the Data folder it is referring to and paste it into a folder somewhere else. Do not delete it, just copy it and save it somewhere else. Then remove the Windows.xml file from the data folder and try running a backup again and see if that helps. Do you by chance have a platform for Windows games you imported called Windows? 1 Quote
ziki Posted September 27, 2018 Author Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) I must have been blind. Yes i got windows games launching from launchbox. I placed the windows.xml and finally im up and running. Still interested for updating though since im running 8.1 How can i do that and keep my library intact Edited September 27, 2018 by ziki Quote
Retro808 Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 You can run the update. It will not delete the games, media, and metadata you have. If you run the installer for the update from a download from the website just make sure it does not place it in a Launchbox subfolder in your main Launchbox folder. We have seen where some have it end up \Launchbox\Launchbox Quote
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