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es_systems.cfg empty!

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    meleu @medicalengineer
    last edited by 5 Sept 2016, 18:20

    @medicalengineer then try to reinstall emulationstation.

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      medicalengineer @meleu
      last edited by 5 Sept 2016, 19:11

      @meleu That's the weird thing. It says (installed) right next to Emulationstation. But could have another look at it.

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        meleu @medicalengineer
        last edited by 5 Sept 2016, 19:24

        @medicalengineer yeah! It can be installed but you lost the es_systems somehow. If you reinstall you'll get this file again (I hope).

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          medicalengineer @meleu
          last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 06:04

          @meleu I tried to install it again. No success :( In the process of installing Emulationstation it does not mention something about es_systems.cfg.

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            edmaul69 @medicalengineer
            last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 06:09

            @medicalengineer do you have a file named es_systems.cfg.bak in /etc/emulationstation/ ? If so delete es_systems.cfg and rename the other one. (Remove the .bak)otherwise i believe you need to delete es_systems.cfg file then reinstall emulationstation.

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              medicalengineer @edmaul69
              last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 09:29

              @edmaul69 the es_systems.cfg is completly gone. Cannot find it on the Pi...

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                medicalengineer
                last edited by medicalengineer 9 Jun 2016, 12:19 6 Sept 2016, 10:47

                I've located the es_systems config file, but it is empty, so i have to write it manually.
                I'm home safe for now. Everything seems to work. But now it's time to get Kodi working with my RetroPie.
                Any useful exp?

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                  3lric
                  last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 11:21

                  /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

                  How were you able to find it to see it was empty, but not the location?

                  Anyway, the location above is where it belongs.

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                    medicalengineer @3lric
                    last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 11:34

                    @3lric After hours of searching i found it by at: /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
                    I opened it just to find instructions how to write the systems manually.

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                      BuZz administrators
                      last edited by BuZz 9 Jun 2016, 13:56 6 Sept 2016, 12:56

                      that file will override the /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg - if you have a full config file in /etc/emulationstation and you don't want to manually "manage" it yourself - remove the one in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

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                        medicalengineer @BuZz
                        last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 17:14

                        @BuZz uhm. I could have another look at it, but I didn't see any es_systems file in that directory. It is up and running with the es_systems i manually typed in some systems, and then updated trough RetroPie-Setup menu.

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                          BuZz administrators
                          last edited by BuZz 9 Jun 2016, 18:25 6 Sept 2016, 17:25

                          it should be unless it was removed/deleted. If you update all installed packages from the retropie-setup menu it will be recreated with the correct systems. You don't need to keep another copy unless you want to manually manage it.

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                            DrMaxwell
                            last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 18:00

                            Or someone could just upload the file for you to mv into the directory and solve your problem.

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                              BuZz administrators @DrMaxwell
                              last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 18:35

                              @DrMaxwell The file is dynamic - differs depending on what a user has installed.

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                                DrMaxwell @BuZz
                                last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 19:10

                                @BuZz said in es_systems.cfg empty!:

                                @DrMaxwell The file is dynamic - differs depending on what a user has installed.

                                es_systems.cfg is dynamically generated now? So, if I install say lr-mess, then every machine supported by the mess core will be generated in the es_systems.cfg as a system?

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                                  edmaul69 @BuZz
                                  last edited by 6 Sept 2016, 21:05

                                  @BuZz this reminds me, somehow my roms changed to root and not home. I had to give user pi permissions to /home/pi/ to be able to move back to that but the es_systems.cfg in /etc/ keeps setting the roms in root. Not a big deal because i manually manage my systems in opt but would like to fix it if possible.

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                                    BuZz administrators @DrMaxwell
                                    last edited by 7 Sept 2016, 11:09

                                    @DrMaxwell No. I didn't say that. But if you have only 2 emulators installed, only the relevent systems will be set in that file.

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                                      BuZz administrators @edmaul69
                                      last edited by 7 Sept 2016, 11:10

                                      @edmaul69 Not sure what you mean - start a new topic perhaps ?

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                                        DrMaxwell @BuZz
                                        last edited by 7 Sept 2016, 23:18

                                        @BuZz I guess I hadn't noticed; I spend too much time editing the es_systems.cfg to know what was originally there, but it's good to know, thanks.

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