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    • sunfighterfranchise
      sunfighterfranchise last edited by

      Is there a way to copy my ROMs over to Recalbox without Recalbox being connected to my network?

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      • duglim
        duglim last edited by

        I wonder the same. I setup 2 Recalboxes with beta 4.0 last weekend and it took me ages to copy over 20 gigs of roms and scraping data each time. I tried to create an SD card image of the first Recalbox, but the second SD card had a different manufaturer, so it was not exactly identical and the image could not be transferred. Accessing the share or roms folder from Windows via SD card slot would be cool. Will an EXT4 driver for windows help? Thx, Dan

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        • voljega
          voljega Banned last edited by

          You know you can backup and restore scrape ? As for the share I don't think it is possible for the moment

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          • duglim
            duglim last edited by

            Sure, I know. I have a backup and on my Laptop there is a copy of the recalbox share folder incl. all Roms, Bios, Scrapings and Settings. So I can install a fresh SD, attach it to the network and then copy over just this one folder. It's even easier since in 4.0 the scrapings are inside of the roms folders. But the copy process itself takes ages, last time about 10-12 hours. Had another tought: If Noobs would not create the EXT4 partition with maximum size of the SD card, but leave a few MB unused, it may be possible to clone and restore an SD image. Most SD cards differ in a few MB capacity, thatswhy restoring an image fails if the new SD card is just a little bit smaller. Learned this the hard way after setting up a perfect Recalbox on a 32GB Samsung mSD and trying to clone it to SanDisc or Toshiba mSD with also 32GB. They were a few sectors smaller. Need to try, if I could restore the image to a 64GB mSD. Greetings, Duglim

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            • terenciode
              terenciode last edited by

              Je suis egalement interessé. J'ai exactement les mêmes problemes.

              Raspberry pi 2 avec wifi Bluetooth et tout :)

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              • terenciode
                terenciode last edited by

                I test h<span style="color: #737c85; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">ttps://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/ and it's doesn't work...</span> i'm effraid to quit recalbox if i cannot copying ROMs without wifi and usb key

                Raspberry pi 2 avec wifi Bluetooth et tout :)

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                • hughesadam87
                  hughesadam87 last edited by

                  Would really love this feature as well. Trying to setup a box for my buddy and now i'm getting network issues trying to put this second recalbox on my LAN with the same hostname etc... would be much easier to just transfer the roms locally on my computer to the SD card.

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                  • rockaddicted
                    rockaddicted last edited by

                    Use a live USB Ubuntu on your PC, then you will be able to access to your share partition.

                    Recalbox V4.1.0 - RPI3 OC - Xbox360 wireless
                    Wiki ENG : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Mini-How-To-(EN)
                    Wiki FR : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Mini-How-To-(FR)

                    Don't forget to upvote messages if it has been useful ;)

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                    • Substring
                      Substring @hughesadam87 last edited by

                      @hughesadam87 either follow rock's advice, either change the hostname (it's in the recalbox.conf), either use a USB key

                      Former dev - Please reply with @substring so that i am notified when you answer me
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