How to manage multiple rom folders all under a single platform?

[SpaceMidget75]

For Arcade, I'm using a bunch of emulators and folders of roms for each emulator. 

This is fine when I first import them all, as I wanted all my Arcade games under the Arcade platform regardless whether it's Dragons Lair running under Singe or Pac Man running under RA\FBNeo.

The problem comes when I want to update the roms. I update my FBNeo set and then want to update Launchbox.... 

Do I just need to do a rom import and it will add new games? 

More complex is what if the updated rom folder has some games where the filename has changed so I have to delete the orginal? What about deleted roms?

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, SpaceMidget75 said:

The problem comes when I want to update the roms. I update my FBNeo set and then want to update Launchbox.... 

Do I just need to do a rom import and it will add new games? 

Correct.  As long as you don't check Force Import Duplicates.   

 

1 hour ago, SpaceMidget75 said:

More complex is what if the updated rom folder has some games where the filename has changed so I have to delete the orginal? What about deleted roms?

You should be able to use Tools < Scan < For Removed Arcade ROMs...      But ONLY if your ROMs are from a Non-Merged set.  If they are from a Merged or Split set, any non-Parent ROM game will get removed.

This will scan all games' path_to_ROM.  Though I'm not sure if you have combined games if it will check the Additional Apps paths.

The last screen of that process will show a list of the games to remove.  Click Cancel if it doesn't look right.  Depending on how much of an update you're doing, there shouldn't be that many name changes.

[SpaceMidget75]

That's great thanks. Yeah, it's that last part I'm not sure about...Happy to set the rom path manually to whatever romset I want to refresh, but I was worried what it will do with the others. Like you said, I guess I cancel if it looks like it wants to clear all the other emulator sets!

Cheers!

[JoeViking245]

42 minutes ago, SpaceMidget75 said:

That's great thanks. Yeah, it's that last part I'm not sure about...Happy to set the rom path manually to whatever romset I want to refresh, but I was worried what it will do with the others. Like you said, I guess I cancel if it looks like it wants to clear all the other emulator sets!

Cheers!

You're most welcome.

Again, I'm fairly certain what the Scan For Removed does is look at each game individually, and then where it's pointing to for its ROM.  Not taking into account the default folder path for the Platform.