How to Remove Auto Scraped Marquee Files From Specific Game Without Deleting Images?

[arcademode]

So when I added Terminator Salvation LB decided that all the terminator games on home consoles shared a marquee with this arcade game.  So it's like Sega CD, SNES, Genesis etc all those home console marquees are now assigned to Terminator Salvation.  If I click "remove" in LB it attempts to delete the files, so how can I keep the files yet remove them from being assigned to that game?

[Retro808]

8 hours ago, arcademode said:

So when I added Terminator Salvation LB decided that all the terminator games on home consoles shared a marquee with this arcade game.  So it's like Sega CD, SNES, Genesis etc all those home console marquees are now assigned to Terminator Salvation.  If I click "remove" in LB it attempts to delete the files, so how can I keep the files yet remove them from being assigned to that game?

This seems a bit odd as each platform would have its own image folder. So if you download a marquee image for Mortal Kombat 2 for the "Arcade" platform it would file the image in the \Images\Arcade\Arcade - Marquee folder. As a result if you had Mortal Kombat 2 in your Sega Genesis platform that game would not access the image in the Arcade platform folder. It would directly access an image located in \Images\Sega Genesis\Arcade - Marquee. 

So I would say open each of the relative "Arcade - Marquee" image folders for those platforms and see if that same image is in each of them. Posting some pictures for us to see would help troubleshoot more. 

Also I deleted your other post. Please refrain from posting the same issue in multiple places. 

[arcademode]

My marquee images aren't in the LB folders, I have them elsewhere.  But in that folder each system has it's own dedicated folder.  For example "marquee images\Sega CD\Terminator, The (usa).jpg" and "marquee images\Super Nintendo Entertainment System\Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (USA).jpg" and several others. They're in different folders with different names, but the similarity pulled them into Terminator Salvation (arcade).  Same thing happened with my Killer Instinct, the marquee pulled in the SNES and Gameboy ports from their different folders.  If I hit "remove" in LB doesn't LB also attempt to delete the file or does it leave it in place?

[Retro808]

If you are in LB and choose to remove the image LB will delete it from the folder. 

LB may not like your folder structure and is struggling to keep things separated. LB does allow you to change the default folder path for images, but it typically looks for an image by [Platform Name] > [Image Type] > [Game Name]. I have my images on a separate drive from the LB main folder, but the filing structure mirrors how LB would typically do it internally. 

[arcademode]

Hmm ok.  Well what can I do now? I have many Terminator console game marquees in different folders (like 10 or 15 of them) all assigned to Terminator Salvation.  Is there a good way out of this situation that doesn't involve the deletion of all those files? If it were just the one game it's not such a big deal but this has occurred on many arcade games that have home ports so it would be good if there was a way to manage this.  I think my folder structure mirrors the nomenclature convention that LB uses, not sure why this happened.

[Retro808]

If you edit say the Sega CD platform in LB (Right click the platforms name and choose Edit) then go to the Folders tab does the image path for your marquee differ than the folder path for Super Nintendo? (Please posts pics so we can see what this looks like)

To clarify a bit though your media structure does not mirror what LB would use. It does differ. 

On 3/12/2025 at 12:52 PM, arcademode said:

For example "marquee images\Sega CD\Terminator, The (usa).jpg" and "marquee images\Super Nintendo Entertainment System\Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (USA).jpg" and several others. 

Your filing of the image is  "marquee images\Sega CD\Terminator, The (usa).jpg"

LB would file it as [ \Images\Sega CD\Arcade - Marquee\Terminator, The (USA).jpg]

Notice how LB uses >Platform Name >Image Type >Image Name        

You have >[custom image type name] >Platform >Image Name

[arcademode]

So, if I correct my folder structure is there a good way to rescrape for just the arcade marquees?

[arcademode]

I answered my own question here by trying it out.  So if you mimic the proper folder structure, then point LB to the proper folder it automatically updates the marquees for the games.  Rad!