[Solved] How to rename a Custom Collection?

[Clyde]

Hi,

how can I rename a Custom Collection? ES doesn't seem to have such a function, and if I rename the file in /home/pi/.emulationstation/collections/, the collection disappears in ES. So, it seems that the collections' names are stored somewhere else in addition to the collections directory.

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers
Clyde

[A Former User]

@Clyde said in How to rename a Custom Collection?:

rename a Custom Collection

Clyde, forgive if I'm wrong, but aren't Custom Collections in

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/collections

Perhaps rename them from there ?

[mitu]

@Clyde You have to enable it in Emulationstation to appear. The names of the enabled custom collections is stored in the es_settings.cfg file, if you renamed it, it's probably not in there yet.

[mediamogul]

@Clyde said in How to rename a Custom Collection?:

it seems that the collections' names are stored somewhere else in addition to the collections directory.

After Renaming the relevant .cfg file at /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/collections/, you also need to make the corresponding change in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_settings.cfg under the string name 'CollectionSystemsCustom'.

[Clyde]

Thanks for all of your quick responses.

@John_RM_70 /home/pi/.emulationstation/collections is a soft link to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/collections. Both paths are equally valid.

@mitu @mediamogul You both just told me the same solution in different ways. It's good to know both. 😊

[mediamogul]

@Clyde said in [Solved] How to rename a Custom Collection?:

You both just told me the same solution in different ways. It's good to know both.

Yeah, I noticed a little later that we posted about a minute within each other. Of course he got there first, so now I owe him a Coke.