LB movement different locations?

[dugan26]

HI All -

Great product and support.

I hope i am not asking to do anything against the license agreement (i have the full license).

Here is my scenario:

I have LB loaded on a PC which mainly plays in my living room. Every so often my son will want to play in his room. Or if we go on vacation i want to have my games with me, and sometimes my parents house that we stay at from time to time.

I am trying to avoid loading up all my ROMS and LB set up on multiple machines.

Can i do the full install on a portable USB drive? 

Plug into a PC and just play? 

Is this possible? or is there another way to accomplish this? 

Again i dont want to do anything against the license agreement.

One more question? 

Whats the best way to back up my LB setup?

I recently had to upgrade my pc and moving things over was a bit of a pain and took some time due to drive letters not matching up. 

 

[C-Beats]

Your license is good for any number of installs on any number of devices you own. LB is a portable app and would work on the USB drive to do what you want. That being said reading from a USB drive is slow and so the UI WILL be slower to respond and do things like load images if being ran from a USB device than it would a regular drive. Best way to backup the LB data is to save out the files found in your backup folder. Those archive files contain all the files in your data folder that will allow you to restore all your data. These do NOT contain your media though and so if you want to back up EVERYTHING just copy the entire LB folder to the backup location. If you're hoping to make restoring that backup easier and always work then you'd want to store your ROMs and emulators IN the LaunchBox folder (Game and Emulator folders respectively). This would mean that all the relative paths would stay in tact when moving from machine to machine and "just work" when you restore the backup somewhere else. Any other way and you'll need to use the tools in File Management menu to repath the games to be able to play anything in the restored backup.

[dugan26]

Got it!!!! 

Makes sense.

I will say all my settings carried over such as controller settings which was time consuming to set up, Not a LB thing, but an individual emulator thing so i was very happy that it came over. I can understand how the best way to back it up is to have everything in LB. 

Think im going to pick up a huge drive and load it all up and just have it all local.

Thanks!