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Add “Move Media/ROMs to Another Drive” Wizard

LaunchBox for Windows

📋 Summary

Introduce a built-in wizard that allows users to move ROMs, images, videos, music, manuals, and other media associated with a platform to another location or drive—without requiring manual folder reassignment or path editing. This would simplify storage management for large LaunchBox setups and make relocating content seamless.

❗ Problem

As collections grow—especially with full-platform sets, videos, and high-resolution box art—disk space becomes a limiting factor. Currently, moving ROMs or media to another disk requires:

  • Manually copying files

  • Manually updating paths in the Edit Platform window

  • Risk of breaking links or corrupting file references

  • No way to bulk move platform content while preserving folder structure

This process is error-prone and time-consuming, particularly for users who want to reorganize their LaunchBox library across multiple drives.

💡 Proposal

Add a “Move Media/ROMs to Another Location” option when right-clicking a platform, or via Tools > Media Tools. The wizard would:

  1. Let users select which platform they want to move assets for

  2. Offer checkboxes for what to move (e.g. ROMs, Images, Video Snaps, Music, Manuals, Theme Videos, etc.)

  3. Let users select a destination drive/folder

  4. Automatically move selected content while preserving internal LaunchBox folder structures

  5. Update internal paths in LaunchBox so everything continues to function correctly

Optional features:

  • Show estimated space savings before confirming

  • Option to consolidate multiple platforms in the same target location

  • Move media for individual games instead of whole platforms

✅ Benefits

  • Makes managing disk space across multiple drives far easier

  • Reduces the risk of broken file paths from manual editing

  • Saves time for users with large libraries

  • Makes LaunchBox more scalable for power users and collectors

  • Streamlines workflows when upgrading or adding storage

Posted by Elhora ·
Status: Open To Community2 comments

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  • AstroBob changed status to Open To Community
    Team•

    May 20, 2025

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    Hi there!

    Thanks so much for submitting this request and for taking the time to explain your use case — that context is always super helpful.

    I’ve gone ahead and fleshed out the main idea using the info you provided, and I’m opening it up to the community for further discussion and feedback. Please let me know if this fleshed-out version doesn’t match your original intended request.

    Feel free to let me know if you have any extra thoughts, examples, or edge cases you think might be relevant!

    Cheers,
    The LaunchBox team

  • Elhora

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    May 20, 2025

    "Move media..." or "move roms..." to another disk

    i dont think i’ve seen that kind of option. With neverending increase of size of Launchbox build (but limited HDD size), it becomes almost unavoidable to be able to move some media or roms sets to another disk. The thing is that unless editing by hand everything, there is no automated option to do it.
    This could work like this : Right click on a platform, and having “move media or roms for that platform to another disk” and we could select what we want to move, like roms, images, video, music, manuals, etc… and on which disk. Launchbox could then create a Launchbox folder to that disk and move inside the roms and media selected, preserving the directory structure.