Games on flash drive
  • krayzielilsmoki
    I would like to keep all my games on a flash drive and have the emulators look at my specified folders in the flash drive.
    This is where I need help.
    What are all the files I will need to modify for this. I know ill have to change the directories for the emulators but I will probably also have to change the directories for Rom Scraper.

    Also, what is the directory for the flash drive?
    Is it /media/nameofflashdrive? or am I missing something?

    Thanks for the help!
  • mholgatemmholgatem
  • krayzielilsmoki
    As always, thanks for your generous assistance mholgatem. Now can you dumb it down for us inexperienced users... haha
  • krayzielilsmoki
    Im pretty sure I accomplished the auto-mount. I did the step by step instructions... not sure why we called it NASDRIVE but I did everything it said.

    Now do I enter your code into the terminal as well or do I have to add that to one of the files?

    I tried plugging in your code into the terminal and I get a message saying:
    cannot remove roms: Is a directory
  • mholgatemmholgatem
  • krayzielilsmoki
    should I change that last line to
    ln -s /media/NASDRIVE/roms
    because I have a "roms" folder inside the flashdrive

    Or should it be
    ln-s /media/NASDRIVE/roms roms?
  • mholgatemmholgatem
  • krayzielilsmoki
    If I sucessfully do this, would I need to keep the images for rom scraper on my flash drive as well? I see that I am supposed to keep them in the rom folder.
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    yes, you would keep them on the flash drive as well
  • krayzielilsmoki
    I couldnt get it to work following the instructions posted on that website, but I found another site with different directions and I got it to work with a combination of the two... Ill try to do it from scratch and if I figure out how I did it will post up instructions for anybody else interested in doing the same thing.
  • krayzielilsmoki
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    Thanks @krayzielilsmoki - glad you got it working!
  • mholgatemmholgatem
  • krayzielilsmoki
    Wow that looks so much cleaner. Thanks!
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    yup, no problem! Took me a while to figure that out as well!
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