Tips for Mac users?

saiyan7702

i must be editing the wrong area of the cfg file, can you send me youre cfg files so i can see what youre doing in there and i can edit them accordingly? email is jryder528@aim.com

caver01

@saiyan7702 you aren't using smart quotes in your cfg files are you? That will fail.

caver01

@saiyan7702 I already gave you the configurations from my files in that post I linked. Why don't you share yours and we can all help you.

tulpan

I suggest to try KrojamSoft BatchRename

ohmycommodore

@tulpan That opens as an exe file. Not Mac, but Windows software it seems.

Muntic0re

Helpful post. Many useful tools, thanks.
You have mentioned ApplePi-Baker app. I know also Disk Drill tool, found it on cleverfiles website. It can scan and recover all photos, music and other important deleted files. + it's easy in use.

caver01

Discovered a useful one last night. . . I typically access my Pi over wifi, but the network I am using for that at the moment is hit or miss. The Pi tends to drop off the wifi and it is very frustrating. It happens to be sitting next to my Mac, so on a whim, I tried plugging an ethernet cable into the Pi and directly into my mac. I am not using a hub and this isn’t even a crossover cable.

Anyway, after a few moments, in the Finder, I can now pull down the menu on my mac Connect to Server and put in smb://retropie.local and it connects! I have to pick GUEST for the connection, but it gives me each SMB shared volume. Obviously, transferring ROMs over ethernet is fast, so this is super helpful if you have access to a network cable.

Capeman

@caver01 Whoah, this could be a game changer for me, i hate uploading my files over wifi! Good find!

caver01

@capeman said in Tips for Mac users?:

@caver01 Whoah, this could be a game changer for me, i hate uploading my files over wifi! Good find!

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. One or the other network interface must auto-detect the other and dynamically crossover. If the Pi is doing this, the tip would apply to any platform that can connect to SMB shares.

chubsta

Quick tidy to add @caver01 's latest tip, just the sort of stuff we need, VERY useful!