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Moving (some of!) Launchbox to a smaller drive on handheld PC


geegeemidnight

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Hello folks -- longtime lurker, first time poster here. 

I've been building a great 8TB Launchbox / BigBox build for some time now, and want to take some of it on the go with me. I have just bought a 2TB AyaNeo handheld, and am thinking of using about 1TB of it for retro gaming through Launchbox.

My Launchbox installation is self-contained on an external drive, and I understand that moving that to another 8TB drive is as easy as dragging and dropping. But what do I need to do if I just want to take a smaller 1TB section of that build and move it over to the handheld, keeping all the artwork, emulators and settings for just the games and systems I cherry pick?

Thanks in advance!

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Easiest way would probably do the following:

1) Install another instance of LaunchBox somewhere
2) Copy the Data, Images, Videos, Themes, and LBThemes folders from your old install to the new one
3) Copy what rom files you want from old to new
4) Open LaunchBox and run the "Scan for Removed ROMs" wizard and let it remove all games you didn't bring over
5) Open the Cleanup Media tool and scan all platforms and remove any images it finds you no longer need

Alternatively you could just build the new one from scratch. If you don't have a lot of custom images or metadata it shouldn't take long at all. Or you can mix/match methods (like manually importing, then copying over images after the fact, etc).

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