@Folly said in Mesa Shader Cache - Can I delete this?:

@TPR said in Mesa Shader Cache - Can I delete this?:
You could rename the mesa_shader_cache first before you remove it.
Then you can always remove it later if you find that there are no problems.
Good idea ?

Yep. Very good idea. I'll rename it to see if there is any issues and if there are I'll just rename it back.

@MCG_1983
You can enable, in Emulationstation menu, the Parse Metadata Only. With this ES will not scan for new roms on start-up.

Press F4 in Emulation Station to go to the command console. Then enter:

sudo apt clean # clears the update cache sudo apt autoremove # removes installed packages that are no longer needed by other packages (so-called dependencies) exit # exits the console back to Emulation Station

I'd swear I did that... must have missed it. Will do first thing in the morning. :)

EDIT: I just did the update. All good. Thanks @mitu !

@mitu Just did final test. It all worked out perfectly. Cache has been moved to the external drive using the path to retropie-mount. The only thing that was weird was after nano-ing into the config.ini, I got the same error message, even after the MicroSD was cleared of the cache. It was just a black screen with the error message at the bottom. However, after hitting ctrl + r to give a command to read a file, I just typed in config.ini into the prompt, and then the file decided to open and let me edit it. Aside from small bump, everything worked out perfectly.

Why isn't screenscraper.fr's content mirrored on the Internet Archive? Seems like exactly the sort of thing they'd collect.

@mitu It's going to be exactly the same set copied over.

@Parabolaralus
Yeah I'll either figure it out or install linux (what is a good distro for dell laptops?). This pc I found at a garbage dump, the hard drive was failing, the battery shot, and it was a little beaten up from being discarded. I restored it with a ssd, and a new battery.
I think it came with windows 7, but there was no sticker on the back.

I downloaded the USB Windows 10 upgrade from microsoft, these were free upgrades some time ago. I had assumed Education postulating that it would activate for free, but I have no qualifications for those terms.

Back on topic:
ExFat has been working great with allocation unit size 8192b.
NTFS-3g may have been a problem in particular with dosbox because of the write syncs.