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General Category => General Discussion & Help => Topic started by: Tomkun on November 21, 2017, 01:24:45 AM

Title: Changing the defaults for new systems.
Post by: Tomkun on November 21, 2017, 01:24:45 AM

Is there a way to change the default settings.conf before adding a new system, or a global settings.conf that affects all systems?

I have roughly 70 systems to set up, but changing the settings.conf files manually for each system will be a laborious task. I tried adding a settings.conf file with the correct options to the _common folder, but it is ignored.

Title: Re: Changing the defaults for new systems.
Post by: Agent47 on November 21, 2017, 07:34:58 AM

You can't change the settings.conf that's generated when you create a collection without editing the values in the source code and compiling it yourself and there's not a global settings file.

If you already have all of your collections created you could probably just use a simple script to copy your template conf file and replace all of the existing ones. If you haven't already created all of your collections I made a little app a few years ago when I switched from HyperSpin that lets you set a global settings.conf, created all the collections from the HS main menu xml (or a text list), and implemented the global settings. I may be able to dig up the source for that and see if it still works if you're interested.

Title: Re: Changing the defaults for new systems.
Post by: Tomkun on November 21, 2017, 08:56:43 AM

Yeah, I ended up making a batch file to do it. Thanks for the confirmation though!