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Removing Non-Imported MAME Roms


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Folks, I'm fairly new to LaunchBox, I have a MAME Non-Merge Full Rom Set, I'm importing via the Full Set Import in LaunchBox.

So I end up imported 2882 roms, is there a way to easily remove the roms with are not being used. Think the full romset is about 128gb, but I'm only importing 10-12gb.

Any help would be appreciated. 

I have already tried select all the Arcade roms and exporting them to another directory, which seemed to be working, but I select all 2882  roms in LaunchBox, Exported, but it only exports 2878 roms for some reason, which I at a lost to.

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4 minutes ago, PSXDupe said:

Folks, I'm fairly new to LaunchBox, I have a MAME Non-Merge Full Rom Set, I'm importing via the Full Set Import in LaunchBox.

So I end up imported 2882 roms, is there a way to easily remove the roms with are not being used. Think the full romset is about 128gb, but I'm only importing 10-12gb.

Any help would be appreciated. 

I have already tried select all the Arcade roms and exporting them to another directory, which seemed to be working, but I select all 2882  roms in LaunchBox, Exported, but it only exports 2878 roms for some reason, which I at a lost to.

Best way i can think of is to export what you have imported to another folder, this can be done via Tools/File management/Export selected roms to another folder. You could then delete your full folder, and point Launchbox to the new folder with the exported games. I will say i havent tested this myself, so i would recommend not deleting yopur fullset until you have tested this process and made sure you are happy with the results and that the games still work.

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So, after a bit of digging around, there is an Arcade.xml in the LaunchBox\Data\Platforms directory. It has a list of files, which I think are the files that were imported.

So I going to copy those files into the new location and try that out, fingers cross that will cover everything.

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I wanted to move only the imported roms, the full set have over 39,000 roms. However when you import the rom it recommends to import clones os those titles, so to move all the roms it's actually near 7,000 roms not 2882.

There are only 5 roms that it installs links for that are not actually in 0.240. Haven't had time to test them out yet so I'll do that when I get home and post a wee update here

 

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