It worked perfectly, thanks :) I asked that because when my SD data (mostly my gamelists) got corrupted and I erased each single gamelist to regenerate them the results got even worse hiding more games and erasing the default scraped data from the RetroPie collection

@herb_fargus I really appreciate the advice. I am even more lost now ha! but I would like to learn how to navigate the terminal more I just don't have any friends that could walk me through it. I will check out your link. thanks!