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Change Default Rom Path


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Hello. I wanted to know if it is possible to change the default path of the Launchbox roms.
By default, LB is set to save games to /Games/Console, but I have it on another drive, R:/Roms. I've never cared too much, since every time I've imported a platform, I've done so pointing to that directory.

But now, with the feature of automatically importing roms, it searches only in the default directory i.e. /Games/. Can I change it so that the default path is the R:/Roms drive, and does auto-import from that directory work?

 

Thanks.

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4 hours ago, Retro808 said:

In LB right click on a platform name and edit it. In the "Folders" tab the game rom path is the first item. Change the location there. 

Thanks. But, can I make this change for ALL platforms by default? Even not added platforms yet.

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I did not know that I could change the path, so I used a windows extension "link shell extension" to pick link source and drop it as a symbolic link. That way I can take the folder directly from ROM-vault and link it to LB, or the other way around.  Since LB 13.11 seemed to detect the real path, but ROM-vault did not. But both ways seems to work.   In LB 13.12 I took the auto-created game folders and created symbolic links in ROM-vault (and you can rename the link, so they do not need the same name).  Some larger ISO-files like Saturn games are placed on an external drive, and then I link it to my SSD, so both ways does work. 

By doing it this way you do not need to change anything in the default LB installation... 

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