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Problem with the App and Files

A topic by Handsome_220 created 27 days ago Views: 123 Replies: 1
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I am having a problem with the app and the games. I needed space on one of my drives so I decided to move the my games and app to my C drive and I deleted all what I had moved after it finished copying over. I had also noticed a 2nd folder in another drive that looked like a duplicate of what I currently had installed already but with some additional games that I had already deleted from in the app due to not playing them and needing space. Anyways I went to open the app and now all my games were showing the same named folder but they wouldn't launch when I tried so I thought maybe something todo with install location so I updated it but now it bugged out and it won't show any of my installed games or anything and my installed games tab was showing an error which was this... error runtime error invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference . I was confused so I was trying to look it up and found a similar problem and someone mentioned to delete the data roaming file for itch on the c drive and now it's even worse the error message is gone but now the app doesn't show any of my games unlike before it showed some of my games when I went to the install location tab but now everything is gone but my files are still on my pc in the folder I moved. 

So what do I do? I don't want to have to delete all my games and reinstall them do I? Is there a way to fix this and get my app back to how it was before I did all this? Would deleting the app entirely and doing a full reinstall delete all my games and would I loose my progress on them and would that even fix the problem?

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Ok I did something and now it seems to be showing everything idk what I even did to fix it??? I think I changed the install location again because it changed it to the roaming location on it's own for some reason and than I scanned for install location games and I think it was loading/scanning and eventually popped everything up. Either I somehow unintentionally solved it with no clue what I did or how I did it or I just had to rechange the install location again and rescan for the games and that fixed it and it just needed time to think idk weird... I am always having problems with this app and I just use it for the auto updating since some games mess up save data and is at time confusing to figure out how to transfer the saves.

idk if any of this is helpful or useful to anyone but at least I solved my problem... I think idk might find out more problems later gotta see if everything is back to normal and if I still have my saves and stuff.