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    USB FILE STRUCTURE

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      maxx.ryno
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      Pi Model or other hardware: pi 4 b 2GB,
      Power Supply used: offical pi p/s
      RetroPie Version Used 4.8
      Built From: premade on site
      2 eg start arcade sticks with 10 buttons a stick
      Emulator: retropie
      MicroSD 256 gb
      SAN DISK 256 GB USB formatted fat 32
      I had a rom collection upto 60 gb, this was many systems including 32x, atari lynx, N64, Dreamcast. I thought the quickest way to transfer all these roms would be USB as my wifi signal is terrible. I formatted the 256 gb USB to fat32, retropie-mount inserted it into the pi and let it populate the folders, after this I copied the roms in the desktop to the usb making sure the correct ones are in each folder directory. I then inserted the USB back into the pi, it copied ALL of the roms for one system (about 30gb) but no more I left it on for about 4 hours. If I take the usb out it only shows the roms for 1 system through emulation station, I have arcade and retropie settings as my only 2 options . With the usb in the pi it shows all the roms and the systems and can run them. I cant seem to be able to copy the remaining roms to the microsd on the pi though. I tried the file manager through emulationstation, if I go to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms it shows all my different systems but only the roms in the arcade folder, if I reboot and insert my usb the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms folder mirrors the usb that is on /media/retropie-mount so I cant copy them across. Is there a solution or do I just keep the USB in?

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        sleve_mcdichael @maxx.ryno
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        @maxx-ryno said in USB FILE STRUCTURE:

        formatted the 256 gb USB to fat32, retropie-mount (...) Is there a solution or do I just keep the USB in?

        If you want the roms to "live" on the USB, you can just leave it in and leave it as-is. The retropie-mount folder is intended for just that purpose.

        If you want the roms to copy off the USB and onto the SD card, the folder name is just retropie (without the "mount" part.)

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            maxx.ryno @sleve_mcdichael
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            @sleve_mcdichael said in USB FILE STRUCTURE:

            nto the

            Awesome again dudes thankyou very much

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