Help! I overfilled my Retropie

Jonathan · 11 May 2016, 20:06

I've been slowly adding new games to my retropie, and while I was keeping an eye on the space required, it appears that I got close enough to filling the thing that the system got weird and now all of my game metadata lists are gone. I still see the games in the menus, but all of the info I'd scraped is gone, and when I start up or shut down, I see multiple error messages saying that the xml files are gone. Also, the "Retropie" section with all of the configuration options is missing the descriptions for each of the config tools, which is kind of annoying.
Short of re-installing everything, how would I go about restoring this?

Riverstorm · 11 May 2016, 20:08

Look here, I think you'll need to restore from backup or start from scratch:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/835/retropie-menu-changed

Jonathan · 11 May 2016, 20:14

Thanks for confirming it. Looks like I'll have another weekend project ahead of me.

Riverstorm · 11 May 2016, 20:20

@Jonathan said in Help! I overfilled my Retropie:

Thanks for confirming it. Looks like I'll have another weekend project ahead of me.

Once you get a "technique" down it goes pretty quick. I built the structure like the roms folder and I dump a lot of the roms and screenshots in fell swoop. If it's a rebuild of the same version I backup a lot of files that I have tweaked and dump them too. I can rebuild in under an hour easily. It took me forever at first but you start making shortcuts and it gets quicker.

Jonathan · 11 May 2016, 20:29

@Riverstorm I've got some serious work to do - this was largely a test run for helping a friend of mine build one for himself, so I just grabbed a giant grab bag of roms...it was a damn mess to try to scrape for, a ton of bad rom hacks, demos, and "12 in 1" roms, pixelated PC Engine porn, the works. I was never that satisfied with N64 performance (I know, overclock and get a heatsink...), couldn't get any Neo Geo games to boot, and the PSP performance was just abysmal.

Starting over is the best idea, I can curate the collection better and avoid wasting space on cruft. I still can't believe I came close to filling up a 32GB card, but I'm guessing it was the PSX games.

jmebd · 12 May 2016, 16:37

@Jonathan I've only got 8 GB left on my 128GB thumbdrive..... :)