vince16 Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 I'm really running out of space on my hard drive where LB/BB is installed. Plus it seems every time I start BB and browse a few games it eats what little space I had away. The other day I had like 2-3 gigs left prior to starting BB, and when I stopped using it I had 0 bytes left on the hard drive... which caused LB to give me an error and shut itself down when I tried using it after BB btw. Please someone tell me it's possible to tell LB/BB to go look for the (platform/category/playlist) videos in another folder on another hard drive, somehow. I have 46,237 games in total (even though, the majority of it are just different versions of a mame game) and LB/BB itself eats plenty of space (I'm at over 70GB currently). Even if I keep moving games to another HDD to free up space like I've been doing lately, I'll never have enough space on this 1TB HDD where LB/BB is, and the 2TB one won't cut it either. I'll probably have to buy a new one with at least 4TB, if not more, to store those thousands of platform videos, video themes and videos for each game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 18 minutes ago, vince16 said: I'm really running out of space on my hard drive where LB/BB is installed. Plus it seems every time I start BB and browse a few games it eats what little space I had away. The other day I had like 2-3 gigs left prior to starting BB, and when I stopped using it I had 0 bytes left on the hard drive... which caused LB to give me an error and shut itself down when I tried using it after BB btw. Please someone tell me it's possible to tell LB/BB to go look for the (platform/category/playlist) videos in another folder on another hard drive, somehow. I have 46,237 games in total (even though, the majority of it are just different versions of a mame game) and LB/BB itself eats plenty of space (I'm at over 70GB currently). Even if I keep moving games to another HDD to free up space like I've been doing lately, I'll never have enough space on this 1TB HDD where LB/BB is, and the 2TB one won't cut it either. I'll probably have to buy a new one with at least 4TB, if not more, to store those thousands of platform videos, video themes and videos for each game. Yes, you can change the media folder location for LB platforms. Right click a platform and edit it in LB. Under the folders path you can change the location. I would also say look at your \Updates. In the \Updates folder LB keeps a copy of the installer for all prior version you downloaded. Depending on how long you have been using/updating LB that can easily be several GB of data. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince16 Posted August 22, 2023 Author Share Posted August 22, 2023 (edited) Fantastic! Thank you very much for pointing that out to me! ☺️ This is gonna be very helpful! Edit: dang, over 8GB in the updates folder?! Does that mean I can just empty that folder without any risk for the good functioning of the software? Edited August 22, 2023 by vince16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefritz11 Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 On 8/22/2023 at 6:54 AM, vince16 said: Fantastic! Thank you very much for pointing that out to me! ☺️ This is gonna be very helpful! Edit: dang, over 8GB in the updates folder?! Does that mean I can just empty that folder without any risk for the good functioning of the software? Yep, I deleted it without issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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