wolpoffm Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Hello! I am loving this process so far, however, I have run into a small issue. I imported a folder of GBA Rom's of which several (more than 30) have a #GBA in the file name. These roms are already in LB and they play without issue. The problem is that Metadata does not get pulled reliably if at all. I have gone into a couple and manually changed the title and then the metadata is downloaded without an issue. This led me to use a mass file renaming utility (Advanced Renamer) which allowed me to get rid of just the #GBA in the file names. The problem is, LB still sees them with the #GBA and the path that LB points to for the actual rom is still the name with #GBA in it. I just started to re-import all of the GBA ROMS folder (in which the files have been renamed to omit the #GBA) which I am now thinking might have been a mistake as it might double up all of the roms? Is there an easy way to batch change the titles and rom paths after importing originally? Or should I just delete all metadata associated with the GBA Roms and start from scratch? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 The best method now that you got all your rom names cleaned up is to remove all the games from the GBA platform in LB and re-import them. It is unfortunate that some rom sets do name their roms with numbers in front of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolpoffm Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 Ok. I just cancelled out of the re-import I was trying and did a CTRL+A inside GBA and deleted everything while in LB. Closed and restarted LB and just began a new import of those ROMs with the better names. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the help! Now I know to check the naming before importing any large quantities of ROMs!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Most No-Intro sets are properly named and import correctly but GBA and DS games have those numbers in front. Not sure of others that do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadVoivod Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Batch file renamer called Advanced Renamer has TONS of options and is for free. https://www.advancedrenamer.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolpoffm Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 The advanced renamer is a great tool It is what I had already used. I put the portable version in my dependencies folder on a portable HD with all of my LB files just for this sort of thing. Got it pretty well sorted out now. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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