Many thanks for this, I will read through the material and then give it a go. Steve

If you can read them via the terminal, then it's ok. What happens if you restart Emulationstation, after booting ? Will the games show up ?

@2fst4u To be fair, this is the most common problem when dealing with a Pi Zero - the hub. Glad you got it working.

@ZioDarkmage sudo fsck.fat /dev/sda1 I always have this where it says it was not properly umounted. I'm looking into it. Oh well, It is probably nothing.

@chubsta said in Clarification on running roms from usb drive please: Transfer the existing RetroPie file structure That's clearly under the Manual Mount section and - obviously - in direct contradiction with the previous sentence from the Automatic method It will proceed to automatically copy the RetroPie folder AND all of its contents (you may need to reboot to start the copying)

ok sry

@steptoe Have a look at this link. exFAT is faster than FAT32. https://www.flexense.com/fat32_exfat_ntfs_usb3_performance_comparison.html

@jonnykesh I meant @rbaker. The TO got it right IMO, talking about transferring ROMs to the USB drive and linking to the right docs for that.

@djpj3000 Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/

@mitu I never ended up doing this I realized I'm an idiot and I could just transfer all the other ROMs to the SD card lol thanks for the help though

@chipsnblip said in Savestates save slowly: avestate_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/SaveS I thought of this solution but I also use the hard drive on PC with Retroarch. It's helpful to have the savestates in the same folder as the rom! ;)

@Allanbuzzy You can't speak of a installation here! The usb helper script only copies the roms from the sd card to the usb stick and keeps them on both! It won't delete anything If you plug in the usb and start up retropie it mounts the usb device to the /home/pi/RetroPie folder, so everything on the sd card is "hided"!

@spud11 after loging in through ssh, you can use "du -sh <directory>" to check the size of the directory and can also use "ls <directory>" to see all the files that are in <directory>

[Not sure this is what you're looking for but....] This is what I've done (ignore the attract mode bit) - Runs it all from the HDD (SD card is still needed), has been working fine for me.

@wilhood This is the problem I want to fix on my raspberry as my external hard drive is better then my sd card. Have you gotten it to work?

Thank you for the help!

@brookes https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@herb_fargus It's not a 3rd party image, it's someone's preconfigured noobs setup with 3 partitions: one with Retropie, one with Kodi, and one with Raspbian. It's still the default Retropie image on top of a headless raspbian os. It was done this way so you would have less overhead when running Retropie (rather than having Raspbian with the GUI with both Kodi and Retropie installed and running on it).