Feature request and error when starting Launchbox using external USB drive for data folder

[Bomza]

When the data folder is moved to an external USB drive, and the drive is not found, (which has happened to me on my FireTV Cube with OTG cables when I plug a second device in such as a controller or mouse) Launchbox will reset to the default data folder.  I propose that with the next update some check is done to see if the current data location is accessible, and if not, an error instead is given that the data folder can not be found rather than resetting to the default data folder location which you can only find out for certain by bringing up the options menu.

Strangely enough, when starting Launchbox I DO get "An unexpected error occurred when trying to access sounds folder" when it can't find the sounds folder because according to GROK AI, it is still looking for it in the default data folder location...

UPDATE 5/14/24:  In this case GROK was wrong and ChatGPT had a different solution that worked.  The sounds.xml file in the USB external drive directory was completely empty while the one in the internal storage data directory was fine.  So specifically copying over that file to the USB external drive from the internal drive fixed the error.  Still would like to see an error shown in the next update similar to the one I got with the bad sounds.xml file when it can't see the external USB drive instead of just defaulting back to the internal drive location.

 

Edited May 14 by Bomza