Auto-Import creating Platform folders

[TheNewClassics]

Hi LB team,

Got a bit of a weird problem here, and I'm assuming it's from turning on Auto-Import of ROMs, but I can't be 100% sure. I'm on beta 5. I just turned on Auto-Import for the first time yesterday. When I close LB, I'll go to my Games folder, and there is now folders for every platform in the database. All the new platforms are obviously empty, but it's a strange problem and I can't figure out why Auto-Import could potentially have caused it. Please let me know what info could be useful for troubleshooting.

[JoeViking245]

Auto-Import works when new ROMs are added to the respective Games/platform_name folder.

Not only does it work for finding new games added to your existing platforms, if you place ROMs into a /Games/ subfolder for a platform you haven't added to your collection yet, it will import those as well.

LaunchBox adding the subfolders [for you] helps to ensure the [new] platforms are named correctly which, coincidence or not, also ensures proper scraping.

aka, with Auto-Import enabled, place your ROMs in their respective Games subfolder(s), LaunchBox makes magic happen.

Read all about it here:  Automated ROM Imports - LaunchBox

[TheNewClassics]

Sounds good, thanks Viking. I should be better about reading the wiki/guides.

I'd love to see an option to not create these extra folders, just for the sake of clutter, especially if the user isn't using a lot of those platforms. I really like this feature otherwise.