How to delete all downloaded media of a deleted platform?

[ReignerDeustcher]

I had 5000 arcade games added but deleted them because i will do a romset update and a clean adding without casino games, duplicate roms etc, i noticed that in the folder of arcade ALL the media downloaded are still there, so i can delete the folder directly or how do you do this correctly in launchbox?

[Your Friendly A.I Overlord]

Yes, you can delete the folder. But you can also run the "Clean Up Media" tool. LaunchBox  > Tools > Clean Up Media.

[ReignerDeustcher]

6 hours ago, Koroth said:

Yes, you can delete the folder. But you can also run the "Clean Up Media" tool. LaunchBox  > Tools > Clean Up Media.

tnks ?

[C-Beats]

7 hours ago, Koroth said:

Yes, you can delete the folder. But you can also run the "Clean Up Media" tool. LaunchBox  > Tools > Clean Up Media.

That's not true. Once a platform is deleted Clean Up Media will not look for it. Platforms can place images wherever the user decides and so that tool wouldn't know for certain where the images were that need to be cleaned up so it doesn't try. In the current version when deleting a platform you are asked if you want to clean up the media, but there isn't an automated way to do that after the fact.

[Your Friendly A.I Overlord]

10 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

That's not true. Once a platform is deleted Clean Up Media will not look for it. Platforms can place images wherever the user decides and so that tool wouldn't know for certain where the images were that need to be cleaned up so it doesn't try. In the current version when deleting a platform you are asked if you want to clean up the media, but there isn't an automated way to do that after the fact.

My apologies. I stand corrected. To be fair, I haven't deleted any platforms myself since the introduction of the Clean Up Media tool. You learn something new every day! Thank you for clearing this up.

[C-Beats]

6 minutes ago, Koroth said:

My apologies. I stand corrected. To be fair, I haven't deleted any platforms myself since the introduction of the Clean Up Media tool. You learn something new every day! Thank you for clearing this up.

No problem. I see the confusion come up quite a bit and so try to pop in and say something when I see it.