Importing a collection

[b3stbuddy]

Given a CSV file containing game name and game path; is this usable to import new games? No metadata lookups wanted. Also, what is the relationship between the launchbox platform.xml and the launchbox DB data? Does one populate the other? Is there a flowchart where these relationships are mapped out? Thanks!

[damageinc86]

All you have to do is import a platform and point it to your games directory.  No need to involve any other files or conversion attempts.

If I understand it correctly, the Launchbox platform .xml files have all the metadata, which includes a Launchbox Database ID number, which will then be referenced to download the images associated with that ID number.

[JoeViking245]

You can't use a cvs file to import games.  I suppose you could get creative and create a batch file or PowerShell script to extract the names and create files (e.g. .txt files) from the names and import those.

The Platforms.xml (in /LaunchBox/Data/) stores metadata for the Platforms in your collection.

The [platform_name].xml file (under /LaunchBox/Data/Platforms/) stores the info for the games imported into your collection for that specific platform.  The database file (located in /Metadata/) stores the metadata for all games.

Once an imported game is associated to the respective game in the LaunchBox database, metadata from the database file is copied into the [platform_name].xml file for easy retrieval by the UI.

[b3stbuddy]

Awesome! Thanks for the quick replies!