[SOLVED]Still haven't had help on rom usb
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Do I have to do the fstab procedure if I am doing auto instead of manual?
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@usarmyvet nope
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So, I did it and no folders copied over
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Thanks, please let me know when you have a working fix and finish your program, I would love to use it
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I did it a third time and was able to get it to auto mount and found roms. However, since it's noobs it won't let me use scraper and crashes the system and puts me in terminal throwing "no space allowed". Is there any way to make retropie saving everything including game saves to my usb?
I went into file manager and deleted everything in retropie folders on the pi, and ran setup through terminal and installed all packages again. And updated. And then it read my usb finally.
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@usarmyvet said in [SOLVED]Still haven't had help on rom usb:
I did it a third time and was able to get it to auto mount and found roms. However, since it's noobs it won't let me use scraper and crashes the system and puts me in terminal throwing "no space allowed". Is there any way to make retropie saving everything including game saves to my usb?
I went into file manager and deleted everything in retropie folders on the pi, and ran setup through terminal and installed all packages again. And updated. And then it read my usb finally.
great! so all i fixed? i suspect what happened is previously it was just transferring all the files from the USB to your sd card, as per https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms#usb-stick - now you've changed it to use the USB drive as rom storage, it stopped doing that, but you still had the files there consuming all your space. now that you've got rid of them, everything should be good.
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@usarmyvet I am still working on the wiki but....
https://shakz76.github.io/Eazy-Hax-RetroPie-Toolkit/
Basically it will- Copy everything you have on your sd card to a different directory on the SD card...not on the External drive.
- Mount your external drive and make it mount perminently (even after reboots), and create a roms directory on it that mimics what is on your sd card (just empty directories)
- Make the pi think your sd card roms and anything you add to the external drive roms are one roms directory.
- Allow you to disconnect the external drive at any time and go mobile with the roms on your sd card....when you get back home...plug it up and you get the extended library on your External drive.
- Adds two seperate samba directories one for the SD card and one for the External drive so you can add roms where you want them.
- Because it does not actually copy anything...no need to wait for the roms to be copied to the external drive...plus it does not waste that space.
If you for whatever reason have the exact same copy of a game on the SD card and the External drive it will read what is on the SD card and ignore what is on the External Drive. The only rule is the external drive must be formatted to NTFS.
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@shakz wasn’t this procedure done by someone named “Forrest”? Just trying to keep my facts straight.
And I use this toolkit regularly if it is the same one, will have to check out the update... thanks
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@chuckyp I am Forrest ;-)
Thanks for looking out for me though...see the link in my sig. I'll be making a vid for it next week hopefully. Really wanted to bring the mac guys into the fold and running the scripts on the pi itself with a means to update them just makes more sense. The batch, curl, bash method has worked great for ages but its kinda clunky. The original kit will be left as is and marked as "Legacy" for image developers but I do not plan to expand on it anymore. With V2 it will still be there but only in a very limited capacity, login, reboot, shutdown, temp monitor, disk monitor....all that stuff you do really just for testing.
Forrest aka Eazy Hax aka Shakz -
@shakz thanks for the info. I just like to give credit where credit is due when I use someone’s work.
Keep it up, your videos have helped me learn a lot over the last couple years.
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