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    • theWinterDojerT
      theWinterDojer @Sano
      last edited by

      @sano Gotcha, I understand the concept of how it works, but I don't understand how to tell Linux that. Good stuff.

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      • OmnijaO
        Omnija
        last edited by Omnija

        Awww sweet, I've always hated the ES logs telling me how games are missing... and NOW "THEY SHALL BE GONE". :D

        Considering im always looking for means of saving space, that other scripts to clean up images sounds great.

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        • meleuM
          meleu @Sano
          last edited by meleu

          @sano thanks for the inspiration. It really helps! ;-)
          I'll implement that when I have a chance.

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          • SanoS
            Sano @meleu
            last edited by

            @meleu said in a gamelist.xml cleaner tool:

            @sano thanks for the inspiration. It really helps! ;-)

            According to you bash skills, I don't think it's the truth ;)
            Nevertheless, I had fun forgetting work for 10min, and doing a bash script for pleasure.

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            • AndersHPA
              AndersHP
              last edited by

              This is really cool! Good work, guys!

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              • KaltinrilK
                Kaltinril
                last edited by Kaltinril

                Suggestion:

                Script should clean up all related items to the file (As @Sano has suggested with his images deletion).

                Change default behavior to:

                1. Copy gamelist.xml to gameslist<DATE>.xml
                2. Modify the gamelist.xml file directly
                3. Move all images/video's into a sub-folder "Unused"

                New Option: -r (remove)
                Removes any files in the Unused folder (If supplied during the initial scan, does not move files to Unused, just deletes them)

                The default behavior would mean if you have 15 systems, you have no work to do, but you still have the "backup" file.
                The new option means if you are confident or don't care, after running the cleanup script a user would have nothing to do.

                Thoughts:

                1. Do people cross link images/movies for 1 system to the same game in another system or folder? If so, the script would need to check for ANY/ALL occurrences or references to the image/movie.
                2. If a user provides this new -r option, should a backup of gameslist.xml be created at all?
                3. Perhaps create multiple other shell scripts for the separate functions, and a master script that calls them.
                  A) gamelist-cleanup-master.sh - orchestrates the cleanup process by calling all sub-scripts and passing in parameters
                  B) gamelist-cleaner.sh - Does what is has always done.
                  C) downloaded-images-cleaner.sh - Would remove un-linked images and movies if no reference is found in any of the XML files
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                • meleuM
                  meleu @Kaltinril
                  last edited by

                  @kaltinril oh, I forgot this tool on my TODO list. :-)

                  Will try to improve it next week. I'm currently pretty busy.

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                  • theWinterDojerT
                    theWinterDojer @meleu
                    last edited by

                    @meleu I ended up manually going through my SNES folder and deleting the unused images. Took a few days, I'm gonna go ahead and patiently wait for you to do the other ones haha. It's not a space issue or anything, I'm just a perfectionist and don't want any unnecessary files on my machine.

                    Thanks for all the other tools, and really no rush. Real life takes precedent to our Pi's :)

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                    • KaltinrilK
                      Kaltinril
                      last edited by

                      Going to clone and edit it and then send a pull request.

                      You can accept whatever you want, or reject it all :)

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                      • KaltinrilK
                        Kaltinril
                        last edited by

                        I've got the -r working. I also added -a for "all" so that I can just type this:
                        ./gamelist-cleaner.sh -a -r

                        and it cleaned up all folders and replaces the gamelist.xml instead of creating the -clean version.

                        https://github.com/kaltinril/share

                        I want to do some more testing before I submit a pull request.

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                        • meleuM
                          meleu @Kaltinril
                          last edited by

                          @kaltinril you can submit a PR and then we can discuss about the code on github. ;-)

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                          • KaltinrilK
                            Kaltinril @meleu
                            last edited by

                            @meleu Submitted.

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                            • theWinterDojerT
                              theWinterDojer @Kaltinril
                              last edited by

                              @kaltinril

                              Is this ready to be used?

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                              • meleuM
                                meleu @theWinterDojer
                                last edited by

                                @thewinterdojer I didn't tested but I merged his script. You can find it here:
                                https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/share/master/images-cleaner.sh

                                @Kaltinril added a -t option to just test and not actually delete anything. It's a cool feature.

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                                • theWinterDojerT
                                  theWinterDojer @meleu
                                  last edited by

                                  @meleu Awesome. I will give this a try when I get home. Thanks a bunch!

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                                  • theWinterDojerT
                                    theWinterDojer
                                    last edited by

                                    @kaltinril @meleu

                                    This worked perfectly, thank you. I deleted 826 images across 6 systems, all duplicates :)

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                                    • xadoxX
                                      xadox
                                      last edited by

                                      The gamelist-cleaner.sh by @Kaltinril seems to be the newer one. Maybe this could be mergeded into the one by @meleu?

                                      Is the images-cleaner.sh by @meleu already usable?

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                                      • V
                                        Vodkanakas
                                        last edited by

                                        I an trying to use this to clean up the images of games that i have removed and all i get is errors. the comman im using is

                                        ./images-cleaner.sh -t -g /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes -i /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/images

                                        when it ends all i get is error could not find gamelist for system but i know the gamelist.xml is in that folder and the images are in the images folder.

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                                        • SanoS
                                          Sano @Vodkanakas
                                          last edited by Sano

                                          @vodkanakas Are you sure your gamelist files are in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes ?
                                          Default is /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes (that's the default for the script, too).
                                          Edit : BTW if I remember, the script loops through the systems.
                                          Have you just tried to launch it with the default folders ? : ./images-cleaner.sh -t

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                                            Vodkanakas @Sano
                                            last edited by Vodkanakas

                                            @sano yes seelphs scraper has an option to use the Rom folder for the gamelists and images so that's why I know they are there. It accesses the images folder just not the gamelist.xml

                                            Edit: If i try just ./images-cleaner.sh -t i get a no such file or directory

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