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General discussionGalaxy: user-controlled installation? (just for Gwent)(5 posts)(5 posts)
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Posted November 03, 2018
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Lexor:
If you've never installed GOG Galaxy - and you're installing it for the first time - it will not touch your installed games, unless you import them.

Games that Galaxy is aware of, are all visible in its sidebar ("indexed" games).

If you have installed Galaxy in the past, and you want to remove locally indexed games - to prevent Galaxy from knowing about them after you install Galaxy again - you can remove the Storage.

[i]On Windows it is here:
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Storage\

You can access the directory using the Run... window (WinKey+R key combination) and entering:
%programdata%\GOG.com\Galaxy\Storage[/i]

(you can remove the whole "Galaxy" folder)
Post edited November 03, 2018 by Johny.
Posted November 03, 2018
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MikeMaximus: I don't think you can actually do anything in Galaxy until you log-in the first time
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Lexor: I can't even configure it while offline? :(
You can. Also there's a difference for the app between not having internet, and not being logged in. There are 4 combinations that you can do. ;) In every of them, currently, you can configure the application.

So - you can just in case disable auto-updates for games, for your mental comfort. :)
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Johny.: Games that Galaxy is aware of, are all visible in its sidebar ("indexed" games).
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Lexor: Does "indexed" status show after "import" and if I do not "import" then I will see nothing "indexed"?
You will see info in the sidebar, that you have "no installed games" and it will stay like that until you install Gwent - then it will show Gwent.
Post edited November 03, 2018 by Johny.
Posted November 04, 2018
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adaliabooks: This isn't actually true, the offline installers will still be detected and added to Galaxy automatically if Galaxy is already installed.
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Lexor: Oh... :/

One more question then: does Galaxy need to be "just installed" or "installed and running" for "offline installer" game to be "indexed"? Maybe if I do not start Galaxy together with start of whole system (I hope there is such option in Galaxy to turn if off?) then my games will not be "indexed" during their installation?
I'm not sure what are the conditions here. It might be that the game installer just adds the game to Galaxy's database. What are you afraid of? You can disable auto-updates, you can also un-index all your games at any moment.

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adaliabooks: To be fair my recollection is not what Johnny has said and Galaxy auto added a number of games I had installed prior to installing it with out me having to scan for them, but it was a while ago and I might be misremembering.
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Lexor: He said that:
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Johny.: If you've never installed GOG Galaxy - and you're installing it for the first time - it will not touch your installed games, unless you import them.
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Lexor: Maybe that means new Galaxy versions do not auto-add games?
If you have Galaxy installed (even not running) - and you install GOG games - Galaxy will catch that and recognize the game as installed (index it).
If something changed in new versions - it's improving the auto indexing, not the other way around. ;)

Due to my knowledge - if you haven't had Galaxy installed at all, after the installation it shouldn't have any games indexed.
Posted November 12, 2018
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Johny.: you can also un-index all your games at any moment
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Lexor: How to unindex single game? All I can see is "uninstall" option.
You can remove manifest file from game folder. It's named goggame-SOMETHING.info. Restart GOG Galaxy then.
Posted November 12, 2018
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Johny.: You can remove manifest file from game folder. It's named goggame-SOMETHING.info. Restart GOG Galaxy then.
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Lexor: My older GOG games (installed before Galaxy) have such files too, yet they are not indexed - so how does this indexing work?

BTW: This is weird that Galaxy has no such option by itself and I need to manually delete such file.
IMHO it would be even more weird if Galaxy had such option. It wouldn't be understandable.

Deleting (or moving somewhere for one Galaxy run) of the file will just cause Galaxy to drop reference to that game. You can bring the file back as you have in your older games, and Galaxy won't see it until you scan for it.
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