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    External drive clarification question.

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    • leefyL
      leefy
      last edited by

      I would like to add video previews to my now full 32gb sd card. So would i be able to have them separately stored on an external drive without retropie copying over all thr roms to it? Basically...sd for roms...usb for snaps etc.

      I know about the rom service and retropie mount folder thingy but it appears to copy all the stuff. Is this true or not?...

      Just thought I'd ask before shifting loads of data about and getting in a mess.

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      • dankcushionsD
        dankcushions Global Moderator
        last edited by

        yes, but you'd have to disable retropie's USB service and setup the relevant symbolic links yourself. the latter requires some linux commandline stuff.

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        • leefyL
          leefy @dankcushions
          last edited by

          @dankcushions ok. Thanks for that. Will have a good look around the webbles and the googlings.

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          • FruitybitF
            Fruitybit @leefy
            last edited by

            @leefy said in External drive clarification question.:

            @dankcushions.
            the webbles and the googlings.

            I'm stealing those technical terms;))

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