floodie Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 If i were to tag the DATA folder as Read only, what implications could arrise from doing so?.... Note, i wont be adding any new systems, games to the build. Would it impact adding / removing favourite games within various systems? cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 Yes, it would impact since the \Data folder contains the xaml file that would need to be edited if you made that type of change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floodie Posted April 5, 2023 Author Share Posted April 5, 2023 ok so for clarity - if i read only the data folder i would no longer be able to add and remove favourites. thats annoying. Any other repercussions other than that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 39 minutes ago, floodie said: ok so for clarity - if i read only the data folder i would no longer be able to add and remove favourites. thats annoying. Any other repercussions other than that? Correct, you are basically preventing any other setting change, edit to a playlist, a platform, a category, a game, emulator set-up, etc.. I would assume any attempt to might crash LB/BB since it will not be able to update the needed file. You mentioned you would not be doing any changes, but there are changes LB/BB do on their own such as play count and play time. So those would be updated in the platform xaml file automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floodie Posted April 5, 2023 Author Share Posted April 5, 2023 Hmm ok thanks - so, what if i kept all as read only apart from the file which stores the adding of favourited games? - I don't give a monkies about play time or anything else being stored Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 1 hour ago, floodie said: Hmm ok thanks - so, what if i kept all as read only apart from the file which stores the adding of favourited games? - I don't give a monkies about play time or anything else being stored Whether you care about play count or time or anything else is not the issue. LB automatically tracks things like play count and I do not recall an option to turn that off. So LB needs to write the data to the xaml. Test it and see. Make the folder read only. If LB/BB does not crash or report an error your are good. If it does you know why. Back your data folder up first in case you muck it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floodie Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 yes will do, think i am going to do some testing... Main thing is, if you are saying Favs wont save with it read only then its a non starter anyway as that is essential Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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