@y2kn from what/where/how are you trying to format the card? In my experience, by using a micro-sd/full-size-sd-cartridge-adapter (or however those may be called) there are times/ports/windows-systems which are recognizing such a micro-sd-in-full-size-sd-cartidge either via external usb-cardreader or via build-in-front-panel-cardreaders as locked, even if the adapter-cartridge is set to writable... sometimes (for external card-readers) depluging,repluging helped, sometimes it worked on a different usb-port... On certain machines/ports it seem to be a gamble for micro-sd in full-size-cartride, on other machines I never experienced it (even with the same external card-readers). Still, those observations are the minority of all cases [accessing a micro-sd card by card-readers] observed - and if the problem persists on a particular card, most propably @Folly explanation may nail it.
Btw. have you tried booting raspberry os (or another desktop os) from usb, then inserting the sd-card and checked what gparted (maybe needed to be installed via apt(manager of choice)) is reporting and maybe, instead of just formating, it would be possible to (re)write (the/)a new partition table and a fresh partition to it.

P.S.: You really haven't tried to format the card from a OS running/booted via that card, or?

You can hit F4 on the ES menu to get to the command line of the Pi. If using Samba or SSH you can get to the file structure on another computer, WIndows for example.

@agtrigormortis haven't you done this multiple times already? You are wasting our time. After your account is deleted, please don't sign up again.

@mitu i figured it out/ remembered for the slow speed issue

for anyone with the Nespi4 enclosures you gotta add
usb-storage.quirks=152d:0562:u

to the /boot/cmdline.txt file adding it at the beginning..

so instead of 3 min 30 seconds to load up the configuration files before it shows up the retropie screen.. now it only takes 28 seconds to sit at the loading configuaration

and now i get 80meg/s instead of the 5meg/s

gonna write steps in a text file the procedure so i can remember next time the orders and what to add if i format or build another one of thess

@mitu @BuZz I know this is an old topic, but I'd also like to delete my account. I posted another topic but tried to delete it(couldn't) since I felt it was irrelevant. I don't see any options to message any admins to delete my account so I was wondering how I'd go about contacting an admin to delete my account? I know my post will stay there but it's alright since I privated the topic since I was embarrassed by my question.

Re-install the retropiemenu package from the core package section.

Just found it before posting something very similar!

In my opinion, It would be great an option to delete both rom and entry. Because I have ckecked "parse game list only", and this, not only hide roms that are not scrapped, but also show roms that doesn't really exist, but still have an entry in gamelist file.

@meleu @Kaltinril I took a bit of action how the cleaner scripts (image and gamelist) work in general.

@all users
First thing that stops me from integrating a picture/video remover into the BashROMManager is that there in no evidence that every user got the same file strategy.
Second: Time shedule!

I tested these two wonderfull tools on my mashine and they work fine! I was able to remove entries from gamelists - after I removed some ROM files. So I these fine tools are working. But I think the responsibility is to much to remove files and work with fragile xml lists in a "automated" ROM deletion process. Please don't think the scripts are not working or the ROMManager itself is the culprit ... No! I simple have no time for extensive trouble shooting!

Here is the link to the image-cleaner script powered by meleu, kaltinril and sano
Here is the link to the gamelist-cleaner script powered by meleu and kaltinril

I think a chance that I step into integrating this is, if I start to scrape all my ROMs ;) I didn't do that the last 2.5 years so you can calculate if I do this in future. I think I will integrate a "log-file" of deleted rom-files into the BashROMManager and maybe a help section how the cleaner tools should be feed manual.....

Nevertheless if there is a strong demand maybe @Sano @hiulit @meleu @mitu and others can (if these nice guys got time) help to integrate. My github resporitory is open for everyone...

I deeply hope, that all these scraper things will be setted in per system SQLite databases once a time. Then it will also be easier to maintain and share such things. So we have a database, were all our roms get one hash string. The hash points to metadata. As long the hash value is in the database the ROM does excitst. To renew the database we have to renew all hash values ;)

@mitu thanks for the tips!

try DuplicateFilesDeleter program

@rapidfire

if i delete a rom within emulationstation does it also delete all the scraped data for it aswell?

No, it doesn't

if i want to backup all my data from the sd card using samba shares. which folder contains the scraped info?

On the pi it is /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation or /home/pi/.emulationstation and via samba share it is (I guess) configs/all/emulationstation
this (or these) contains 2 folders with scraped data:

gamelists downloaded_images

First time poster, new to retropie.
When using a samba share from a windows pc, I can add and rename rom files but it won't let me delete them. I receive a message saying I don't have permission. Does anyone know which permissions I need to change for this?

Retropie 4.2 and raspberry pi 3 b

@maddyfresh1 what you've asked is basic and covered in the wiki. If you read that first post that was linked, it says to read the wiki first. You agreed to these rules when signing up to the forum.

Thanks.

I do it that way for my media server, which also runs Win7 and the files are gone, but having never used a RaspPi before I just wanted to double check. :D

Having the same issue, but I can't find any USB daemon tools under retropie setup and tools.

@battlecat said in Config file creation:

Does this mean that if I need to reset the retroarch.cfg it too will reset to defaults if I remove it?

Your original post is about ...configs/all/retroarch.cfg. If you delete it, RetroArch won't create a new one for you.

If you don't believe me, you can test it and see. :D Rename retroarch.cfg to a different name and execute the emulator you want. Then look at your ...configs/all/ directory to see if there's a new retroarch.cfg there.

Be aware that if you delete/rename the retroarch.cfg, the RetroArch will use its own defaults (what is default in its source code), but not the RetroPie defaults. Do you get what I mean?

When you reinstall RetroArch, like I suggested in my first response, you get a brand new retroarch.cfg with some presets made for RetroPie using.