delete roms completely

[rayman]

Just wandering if it is capable to completely delete roms off a hard drive from gameex. I know i can annex them from the front end - but i would like them to be gone for good. is this possible, or maybe i need to make a request?

[Brian Hoffman]

  rayman said:

Just wandering if it is capable to completely delete roms off a hard drive from gameex. I know i can annex them from the front end - but i would like them to be gone for good. is this possible, or maybe i need to make a request?

No Im sorry you cannot delete your rom from your HD from gameex. This has been requested before.

If you have spent alot of time pruining your FE to only show the game you want you can go into your excluded game list and copy the contents (romname) and paste it into a text file and create a bat to delete all files and run it from the rom directory.

There are threads here that go into more detail.

happy gaming

[mightypeniz]

Doesn't help if you're deleting them to reclaim disk space... but, if you're going to be requesting it, you should request a "blacklist this rom" type feature, which would the rom to the Excluded Game list...

[bkenobi]

This has been requested enough times an entry to the FAQ might help...if people read it anyway

[LB11]

  mightypeniz said:

Doesn't help if you're deleting them to reclaim disk space... but, if you're going to be requesting it, you should request a "blacklist this rom" type feature, which would the rom to the Excluded Game list...

Thats basically what pressing delete does at the moment.

He wants it to actually remove the game from the disk.

[bkenobi]

Actually, I bet a plugin could do this, but I don't know anything about programming GameEx plugins.

[mightypeniz]

  LB11 said:

Thats basically what pressing delete does at the moment.

He wants it to actually remove the game from the disk.

doh.. I've never tried it. Thanks for that..