Put boxart on external storage?

[lostless]

I’m rebuilding my image from scratch and was wondering if there was a simple way to just leave the boxart I’ve scraped over the years on my roms external drive? I know I can copy the artwork folders and the game list over to the new build which is what I’ve done many times before, but seeing if there was a way to just plug a usb stick in, has the artwork and emulation station sees the artwork? I know the other metadata will not show up unless I rescrape.

[lostless]

Upon further thought, the idea is a bad one. As all the arcade and neogeo games would have weird names
(Nevermind, forgot ES displays proper game name) But maybe a way to have the artwork and games lists on an external drive that a new build can use instead of always copying it over every time ?

[sleve_mcdichael]

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#gamelistxml-edits

If you use the built-in ES Scraper, your gamelist and image folders will be in ~/.emulationstation; I don't think you can change this.

If however you use another scraper (Steven Sselph's scraper or Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper) you can choose whether your scraped data goes there, or in the roms folder; if the folder is mapped to an external SSD then the scraped data will be there too, or else it will migrate along with the roms themselves by whatever other method you use (i.e. just backing up the roms folder over network shares, etc.)