Whatscheiser Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Sorry for the title, hard to sum up. I have ROMs stored on a NAS for a couple of my platforms. As soon as I click on one of these platforms via the sidebar, Launchbox will immediately reach out to my NAS. This is a problem because the NAS isn't always spun up. So when Launchbox does this the menu locks up until it can begin communicating with the NAS after its done booting. Which is fairly disruptive when I'm just trying to flip through content. All images, video, & metadata is stored locally where Launchbox is. Nothing the front end needs is stored over the network. Just the ROMs. I feel like the only reason it should have to spin up the NAS is if I ask it to access a ROM that is stored there. I assume that when I click on a platform, there must be a check that is being performed to ensure that the file pathing is still correct or some such. I just wish there was a way to prevent it from reaching out until I have asked it to fetch a file. The solution I'm considering is just to point Launchbox at locally stored shortcuts or bat files so when it does this file check its staying on the local drive, then the NAS will only spin up when I actually want to access something. The only thing that sucks about that is I lose my ability to file manage efficiently in Launchbox (or with in the xaml files it creates) since the actual pathing is happening outside of the application. Hoping someone has a smarter workaround. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatscheiser Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 (edited) Eh, well. I ended up using shortcuts. I used the xcopy command in windows to mirror the folder structure I had on the file server. Shortcuts went into those folders and Notepad++ took care of swapping out file extensions and the leading bit of the directory structure. No more spinning up the NAS to just browse around. I saved a backup of an unedited version of the platform's xml file if I need to swap it back in for some unknown reason. ...creating the shortcuts sucked. Smooth process otherwise. Edited December 26, 2022 by Whatscheiser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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