I need help putting roms on my usb

[Trailjacker]

Ok then one of two things may be happening:

1. Permissions are incorrect.
2. Your sd card is full. -> Just happened to me a few mins ago and gave the same error. I forgot to expand my file system when I replaced it with a bigger card :)

If you think it may be the permissions you can try to reset them in the setup:

type :

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Then go to congi/tools and there should be a reset permissions option.

If you think its a space issue you can run the 'df' command and see what your sd cad free space is. If it's a free space issue I might know why.

I don't know how external drives work to answer your other question. Did you follow the guide for
the USB Transfer Daemon and such when you connected your drives?

[_Moosh_]

@trailjacker
Ok, I will reset perms and check the sd card, thanks
Oh, the 500gb isn’t here yet

[_Moosh_]

@trailjacker I reset the perms and did df, but ssh still doesn’t work.. I don’t think the sd card is full, but df showed the space left in the HDD not the SD card.

[Trailjacker]

How many gb of roms are on the external HD?

Use the command 'df -Bm' to check the sd card. I'm curious if the roms copied from the HD to the sdcard filling it up.

[_Moosh_]

@trailjacker I don’t really know anything about this, so here’s a picture of it. Bm is on top https://imgur.com/gallery/CJggw

[Trailjacker]

Yeah you only have 8% used so that isn't the issue.

Are you copying games to the rom folders? If so , right click the emulator folders you are having trouble with and click properties and make sure the permissions got set to 755.

[_Moosh_]

@trailjacker it is set to 755

[Trailjacker]

Have you tried coping through a usb drive?

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms#usb-stick

[_Moosh_]

@trailjacker I don’t have any spare usb’s :/
When the 500gb ext. HDD gets here, I can use that

[_Moosh_]

@_moosh_
I ended up just putting all the ps1 games on my new 500gb HDD, so solved