the auto install ruined everything!!!

[Surnis]

When the new update came up, and it tried to auto-install everything on my PC as game files, I stopped it immediately, and I expected it to respect this! But the next time I opened launchbox, it did it without warning me! And this auto install is totally moronic, taking whatever sound file or whatnot for a game that got nothing to do with it. Now, I have hundreds of "games" installed, called stuff like tsssdtfx, playerconfig, mainmenusound, track3, etc. which obviously aren't games. The pc side is even worse, not giving a grey square, but launchbox thinks I have thousands if games I never even heard about, which are instead map files this auto-install thinks are separate games, and downloads whatever picture to go with it! 

 

Now, I'll have to spend hours cleaning up all my inventory! Erasing hundreds of files, and testing hundreds of pc games to make sure they are real or not!  I don't suppose there is any way to just undo this awful event? Maybe it would be less long to simply start anew... If that auto-unstall was to be such crap, at least it should'nt be imposed like this! Maybe I'll look for an alternative after all...  Just look at this fun collection of Xbox games! 

[sundogak]

1 hour ago, Surnis said:

When the new update came up, and it tried to auto-install everything on my PC as game files, I stopped it immediately, and I expected it to respect this! But the next time I opened launchbox, it did it without warning me! And this auto install is totally moronic, taking whatever sound file or whatnot for a game that got nothing to do with it. Now, I have hundreds of "games" installed, called stuff like tsssdtfx, playerconfig, mainmenusound, track3, etc. which obviously aren't games. The pc side is even worse, not giving a grey square, but launchbox thinks I have thousands if games I never even heard about, which are instead map files this auto-install thinks are separate games, and downloads whatever picture to go with it! 

 

Now, I'll have to spend hours cleaning up all my inventory! Erasing hundreds of files, and testing hundreds of pc games to make sure they are real or not!  I don't suppose there is any way to just undo this awful event? Maybe it would be less long to simply start anew... If that auto-unstall was to be such crap, at least it should'nt be imposed like this! Maybe I'll look for an alternative after all...  Just look at this fun collection of Xbox games! 

You could revert to your prior install by using the Tools, File Management, Restore Data Backup as LB makes a backup each time it shuts down and starts up. Look for one prior to update and revert.  The zip files are stored in the LB\Backups folder. 

Also, for existing systems the importer was supposed to be turned off by default (was on mine), so sounds like a bug for you in that case. 

[C-Beats]

This feature was opt-in for existing installs so nothing was imposed. You pressed yes on a popup to get to this point. That being said you can turn it off again in Tools > Options > Automated Imports. Unless you turned it off previously LB auto-backups your data on open and close events. Can go to Tools and restore one of the backups prior to enabling the feature. Backups are located in \\LaunchBox\Backups.

[Surnis]

That's my point, I said no at the pop-up on the first boot-up after the update. I was expecting it to respect that.

I will try the backup, though I already did a lot of the work of erasing irrelevant «games». The real annoyance is the PC games field, but I might just erase and rebuild it after all. 

Thanks!