Backed Up Launchbox and Reinstalled - All Paths Changed

[Garfelt]

I recently had a problem with my pc. I was smart enough to place all games and roms in the launchbox directory and make a backup. I had to completely reinstall windows. I copied everything back to my original drive and everything seems to be working excellently, except... Every path name to every game is missing the "C:\Launchbox" part. So they all start with "Games\", which obviously isn't going to work. 

So my questions... 

1.) Is there a way to change every path to every game to add "C:\Launchbox" before it? Easily? = /

2.) Why did the path change at all? I assumed the path was set somewhere? 

3.) May be answered with the second question, but how can I avoid the path names changing in the future? 

Thank you in advance. 

Edit: Just for clarity the original path was "C:\LaunchBox\Games\" then a folder for each platform containing the roms/games. 

 

Edit: So I figured out one way to do it which is far less cumbersome than changing each path individually. For each platform go to Tools>Change ROMS Folder Path and set the correct folder where your games are stored. Not optimal, but does work and saves a lot of time.

Edited September 29, 2018 by Garfelt

[neil9000]

1 hour ago, Garfelt said:

Every path name to every game is missing the "C:\Launchbox" part. So they all start with "Games\", which obviously isn't going to work.

That is actually correct, if everything was in the Launchbox folder it will use relative paths not absolute ones, so Games/ is just the games folder inside of the Launchbox folder, it doesnt actually need the drive letter as its looking inside of its own folder so the drive letter doesnt matter.

[Garfelt]

It seems to matter, though. These paths don't seem to work in launchbox. 

For instance, before if I edited any rom it would start with "C:Launchbox"

Now after copying to a different drive and pasting then back this part has changed. None of the roms point to the correct file without this in front of them. If I manually change it they work fine. 

[Garfelt]

Here's screenshots of the behavior. 

[neil9000]

Those rom paths there are correct though, that bottom image with your folder is Launchbox/Games/Sega Genesis, and in the screenshot above that the path is Games/Sega Genesis which is the same. Its the same in mine, and my setup is on my D drive, but Launchbox doesnt care as its in the Launchbox folder so is a relative path.

The error in your first image is actually saying your emulator path isnt correct, not your rom path.

[Garfelt]

Apologies. I foolishly hadn't copied over the emulators which WERE NOT in the launchbox folder. I think the ones that I changed to get working were windows programs, so I'm unsure as to what was going on there as I've already altered all paths. Thanks though.