Yes thx herb I am. Booting from an OLDEN 1TB hardrive that was top of the line a long time ago. I tried easus. waste of time. I tried mini partition tool. Nop. Only thing that worked? gParted. FTW! fdisk -l shows Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 8192 124927 116736 57M e W95 FAT16 (LBA) /dev/sda2 124928 1953523711 1953398784 931.5G 83 Linux Moral of the story just use gPared. Everythig else is a waste of time.

@mitu wow - thanks again - must have done this on the prevoius install and somehow forgot :-/

@fabio78 glad it worked. It’s one of the first huge issues I ran into when I started to make more advanced changes.

to anyone else, this was added because of this thread on github https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1743

I am curious why you would specifically want the Finder for this? Why not use a decent (S)FTP client like Cyberduck or Fugu?

Ok, I will allow ssh access. Thank you again for your help.

@3n1gm4 Choose option 7 Advanced Options

I now have it working. The SD card was working as it should, for some reason it was not automatically running the process to extend the filesystem, even after a reinstall. So i ran the command to do it my self. That has solved my issue and i now have all my roms copied across and everything is working well.

@megafacehead Sound like an undersized card to me. Have you check what Linux reports as free space on the disk ? Log in via SSH or just drop to a command line by pressing F4 on the ES screen and run df -h to see how much space is available on the card.

Thank you for that super-fast reply! I was looking at gparted but hadn't managed to get onto it around work - but that auto script seems to be just the ticket! I'll give it a crack and come back if something goes horribly wrong - if it doesn't we can assume this thread is closed :D

Looks like you are doing it wrong. Try it a different way, one that works