51mm5 Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Hi There This maybe a noob question. I have my Launchbox installation along with emulators and roms on its own dedicated external drive, however I have the emulators and rom in separate folders and not under the Launchbox installation folder. By not having the emulators and rom under the Launchbox folder does that mean my installation is not truly portable? As it is, could I not just take the drive to another PC and play games from another PC? I guess what I'm getting at, is the an advantage to having everything in the Launchbox folder? BTW I'm using Win10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 8 minutes ago, 51mm5 said: Hi There This maybe a noob question. I have my Launchbox installation along with emulators and roms on its own dedicated external drive, however I have the emulators and rom in separate folders and not under the Launchbox installation folder. By not having the emulators and rom under the Launchbox folder does that mean my installation is not truly portable? As it is, could I not just take the drive to another PC and play games from another PC? I guess what I'm getting at, is the an advantage to having everything in the Launchbox folder? BTW I'm using Win10 You should still be fine, as long as you use the same drive letter on the other PC. For example if your emulators are currently in D;\Emulators, then Launchbox wont find them if you plug the drive into another PC and it assigns the drive the letter E:, as the path word now be E:\Emulators. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 We use relative pathing so if the roms/emulators are on the same external drive as the LaunchBox install it should all work fine. Relative pathing should effectively tell the computer something like, "Go back 3 folders, then look for this folder path from that spot". It shouldn't be using drive letter at all if the two items are on the same drive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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