self contained launchbox/big box setup not working as expected

[3dlollo]

Hi, I am setting up an arcade machine, which would have a subset of my existing launchbox library.

The problem is mostly with all its parts that need to live in specific locations; and that is affecting how launchbox operate on the machine inside my arcade cabinet.

Fundamentally, I installed launchbox on my computer; it is on its own drive, and I added inside the launchbox folder, the various mame version I use (0202 for most of the games, 0139 for Android subset and 0184 for all the games that does not work on 0202), plus the extra emulators like retroarch, pcsx2, reicast and few others, that may not be working perfectly via retroarch.

I have then imported all the games via the launchbox interface; so when asked if I want to copy the roms, I picked yes, so I have the Games folder inside the launchbox folder, which host the roms. so far so good.

As last measure, I went in each of the platform (right click on the left platform bar and select "edit"), and removed the absolute path for artworks, music, videos and so on; the relative path is working fine and images/videos are displayed correctly.

Then I moved the whole folder to the arcade machine and noticed that things were not working as expected. When running some platforms I would get an error, saying that launchbox cannot create a folder on the original path; which was strange to me since I removed from every platform the absolute path. But when I went to check the path; I noticed the issue: every field in the platform is set as relative path (so for example, for manuals I have Manuals\PLATFORMNAME, same for Images\PLATFORMNAME\Box -front and so on), and that works because I can see the images and videos on the arcade machine, but the games path is ALWAYS reset to the original path, which is pointing at my main machine external USB drive.

I tried to change it various times, but every time I click OK and go back to edit the platform, the path is reset to absolute path.

This is fundamentally forcing me to re-import ALL my platforms on the new machine; which will take a ton of time; especially because I have 4 different mame version, and for each of them I need to go into each platform and change by hand the path, so it will point to the arcade folder, so all the arcade data is in the same place and I keep 1 copy of the images, videos and so on. Is there a way to fix this issue with the absolute path? To me it sound like a bug; because the only field affected by this issue is the "game" field; every other field is working just fine and use either the absolute or relative path as you set it.