Reply To: How do I stop Retropie from looking for some gamelist.xml files?

[taalas]

You don’t need to copy the es_systems.cfg to your home directory to edit it.

Emulationstation has a fixed number of places where it looks for the gamelist.xml files (one being the roms folder itself e.g.) In any case though you don’t really have to delete any folders. If all you would like to achieve is not seeing the systems in Emulationstation it suffices to not copy roms to the relevant ROMS directory. Some rare cases (e.g. the home computer emulators) will show in Emulationstation because they have a fake ROM file in the folder (most of the times called Start.txt, if you rename this to Start.dont it won’t show.

Again, what would you like to do? I am pretty sure you don’t actually need to delete anything.