Retropie 4.3 favourites never save when I power off

[pjft]

@pinacolada More info please - version of ES, RetroPie, image, etc?

--> https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Check "Save on Exit" option in ES > Other Settings. Favorites get saved on the gamelist files. They have pretty much been working for the past 3 years or so, with no changes on that front, so other than Saving on Exit not being enabled, more info is required.

[pinacolada]

If this is where you mean, then the problem here is that I don't get a "Save on Exit" option:

Am I looking in the wrong place?

[BuZz]

How are you shutting down / powering off?

[pinacolada]

@BuZz There's no switch on my Pi so I've just been pulling the USB power cable out. Am I doing it wrong?

[pjft]

@pinacolada That is the right place, and that was the name of the option prior to recent changes to that menu.

Correct: you need to exit it via shutting down via the EmulationStation menu. It will then save things.

[BuZz]

@pinacolada yes.. you should shutdown via emulationstation. Later emulationstation versions save immediately but you could still lose data pulling the plug. You risk filesystem corruption also.

[pinacolada]

Ok, so I added some favourites and tried "Restart Emulation Station" and the favourites were then retained, even after shutting it down, and restarting the pi itself.

I'm a bit confused myself now, is it the "Restart Emulation Station" or the "Quit Emulation Station" that saves your favourites?

[pjft]

Any of them will, but Quit EmulationStation will leave you at the terminal. You'd usually use "Shutdown" to turn off the system, or "Restart" to restart EmulationStation.

[mitu]

@pinacolada said in Retropie 4.3 favourites never save when I power off:

I'm a bit confused myself now, is it the "Restart Emulation Station" or the "Quit Emulation Station" that saves your favourites?

Both - any time EmulationStation stops, the metadata (including Favorites) is automatically saved.

[pinacolada]

I'm actually still having a bit of a problem with this - just tried to add another game to favourites, it did add, but when I quit emulation station, and then restarted the pi, that game disappeared from favourites and the list reverted back to a list without that game.

Also tried adding a game to favourites then chose "restart emulation station" - same problem, favourites list reverts back to how it was on boot up.

[BuZz]

@pinacolada check you haven't switched save metadata on exit off when you were in the settings.

[pinacolada]

@BuZz

Ok so, when I boot up, I have 6 x favourites. I add another, when I back out of favourites, it says I have 7. I double check the settings and "Save Metadata On Exit" is ON. I then choose "Restart Emulation Station".

When it comes back, the favourites count reverts to the original 6.

[mitu]

@pinacolada Do you have enough free disk space on your Sdcard ?