Hanging on "Populating Games"

[dpc5555]

Hello all -

I've been having a lot of problems with my Launchbox set-up lately and still need some more help getting it figured out.

I had posted a couple of weeks back about a spontaneous problem that arose, where the screen appeared broken and frozen upon loading. Prior to this my Launchbox setup has worked wonderfully for years and I love it. By trial and error, I somehow managed to fix this and determined that most likely it was due to a corrupted theme file.

Since that time, I am having major difficulties getting into the program. Occasionally I can get in, and once in, everything runs as normal. However getting the program to load is hit and miss. Usually the loading screen gets stuck on "populating games" and can remain there for hours until I finally just cancel it in task manager.

I did just find that installing versions of Launchbox from version 10.14 and prior work great - it loads up in seconds with no issues. Anything after that hangs on "populating games".

Any ideas? For now I can use the older version to continue enjoying the program, but at the moment I can no longer update

 

 

[dpc5555]

Has anyone else had any issues with launchbox loading up in recent builds? Like I said in my previous post, my system hangs on "populating games" in any build from 10.15 and later. I'm guessing most are not having any issues, so I'm trying to figure out what is different about my system that is causing these problems. 

I'm having this issue in both a fresh installation as well as my long running installation, so it's not a corrupted file.

Possibly a registry issue?

Or something with my data that is clashing with an updated feature?

Edited August 6, 2020 by dpc5555