willkills Posted December 9, 2019 Posted December 9, 2019 Is there a way to keep your roms on the sd card and have launchbox launch the games from the sd card? I only can import and it takes up all my phone memory which is 64gb. I have a 256gb sd card with all my roms on it. My goal is to have LB on my phone internal memory and have my roms stored and load from the sd card. Can someone help me with this if its possible? Quote
Jason Carr Posted December 9, 2019 Posted December 9, 2019 Hi @willkills, this is definitely possible. Are you importing directly on Android or exporting your desktop collection? All you have to do on Android is just put the ROMs on your SD card, and it will continue to use them from there. Or, you can export from the desktop directly to your SD card as well. Quote
willkills Posted December 9, 2019 Author Posted December 9, 2019 (edited) @Jason CarrThat's just the thing. I have my roms on the sd card already, but when I go into LB and place a system say nes it has me import the roms to my phone instead of reading them from the sd. The directory creates a game folder on my phone memory. This is what I'm trying to avoid. Edited December 9, 2019 by willkills Quote
Jason Carr Posted December 9, 2019 Posted December 9, 2019 2 hours ago, willkills said: @Jason CarrThat's just the thing. I have my roms on the sd card already, but when I go into LB and place a system say nes it has me import the roms to my phone instead of reading them from the sd. The directory creates a game folder on my phone memory. This is what I'm trying to avoid. ROMs are not moved on import for the Android version. So no, it is not copying your ROMs over to any other location. It is downloading images for the ROMs, though, and that may be on internal storage. Is that what you mean? Quote
willkills Posted December 10, 2019 Author Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) @Jason CarrWell, Something funky is happening then because for some reason its copying the roms and placing them into the following directory for example this is a path to where the games are being copied to... Then my 64gb on my phone gets washed away real fast. LB app boxart and all only use up like 6gb. As you can see the directory to read the game is not to my sd card. Edited December 10, 2019 by willkills Quote
Jason Carr Posted December 10, 2019 Posted December 10, 2019 That path is actually a relic from before you could actually import games directly on Android. I'm not sure how you're testing, but that folder is/was probably empty. ROMs are not moved or copied on import. Quote
willkills Posted December 10, 2019 Author Posted December 10, 2019 Ok, well I keep digging and try to figure out what the problem is. Thanks for you help. If I come across the issue I will be sure to post it. Quote
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