Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's

davidgrohl

Hi all,
I've tried this usefull script but it doesn't work for me.
I put it in /home/pi/Retropie/roms folder. Make it executable. Than launch it typing ./name_of_The_script.sh and it says:

file: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms//gamelist.xml'
./clear_played.sh: 7: ./clear_played.sh: cannot create /home/pi/RetroPie/roms//gamelist.xml.tmp : Directory nonexistent
mv: cannont stat '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/**/gamelist.xml.tmp' : No such file or directory

What's the mistake?

mitu

@davidgrohl The script fragment expects the gamelist.xml located in the ROMs folders, but by default they're in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system_name>. Try the script posted by @kactius, it allows you to select one of the 2 locations for the gamelist.xml files.

davidgrohl

@mitu said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

@davidgrohl The script fragment expects the gamelist.xml located in the ROMs folders, but by default they're in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system_name>. Try the script posted by @kactius, it allows you to select one of the 2 locations for the gamelist.xml files.

Thanks @mitu for reply. That scripts works with option 2.
Great! Thanks a lot.

Invisible89

@mitu said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

@davidgrohl The script fragment expects the gamelist.xml located in the ROMs folders, but by default they're in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system_name>. Try the script posted by @kactius, it allows you to select one of the 2 locations for the gamelist.xml files.

Hi guys.

I'm trying to clear my last played games list, but it doesn't work :(

I've created cleanlastplayed.sh file with this code:

#!/bin/sh
#clear_played.sh

for f in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/**/gamelist.xml
do
echo "file: $f"
grep -e lastplayed -e playcount -v $f > "$f.tmp"
mv -f "$f.tmp" $f
done

It's ok? Or I've to modify it with the name of the system name (**)?

And where should I put this file? What directory?

Thanks

mitu

You should use a single wildcard (*) instead of the system name, but the script will only find the gamelist.xml files from the ROM folders, you might have some gamelist files in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system> folders.

Invisible89

@mitu said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

You should use a single wildcard (*) instead of the system name, but the script will only find the gamelist.xml files from the ROM folders, you might have some gamelist files in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system> folders.

Ok, i will try with only one windcard.

But where i've to put my cleanlastplayed.sh file?

mitu

@Invisible89 said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

But where i've to put my cleanlastplayed.sh file?

It doesn't matter, as long as you execute it correctly. Let's say you save it in /home/pi/RetroPie/scripts.

#make the folder
mkdir -p $HOME/RetroPie/scripts

# create the file in $HOME/RetroPie/scripts/lastplayed.sh

# run the script
bash $HOME/$HOME/RetroPie/scripts/lastplayed.sh

Invisible89

@Invisible89 said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

@mitu said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

You should use a single wildcard (*) instead of the system name, but the script will only find the gamelist.xml files from the ROM folders, you might have some gamelist files in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system> folders.

Ok, i will try with only one windcard.

But where i've to put my cleanlastplayed.sh file?

Ok, i understand.

Thanks

Invisible89

@mitu said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

@Invisible89 said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

But where i've to put my cleanlastplayed.sh file?

It doesn't matter, as long as you execute it correctly. Let's say you save it in /home/pi/RetroPie/scripts.
#make the folder
mkdir -p $HOME/RetroPie/scripts

# create the file in $HOME/RetroPie/scripts/lastplayed.sh

# run the script
bash $HOME/$HOME/RetroPie/scripts/lastplayed.sh

Ok, now I've this when I try to run the script:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/scripts $ ./delete_pla_last.sh
-bash: ./delete_pla_last.sh: Permission denied

What I've to do to take a permission?

Thanks

mitu

@Invisible89 said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

What I've to do to take a permission?

It's because you've not made the script executable - that's why in my example command I've run it through bash. Just run

chmod +x delete_pla_last.sh

and re-run the script.

Invisible89

@mitu said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

@Invisible89 said in Clearing the lastplayed and playcount from gamelist.xml's:

What I've to do to take a permission?

It's because you've not made the script executable - that's why in my example command I've run it through bash. Just run
chmod +x delete_pla_last.sh
and re-run the script.

Finally! ;)

Done, thank you man!

RetrOkada

Hello, thanks for this script.

Unfortunately, when I attempt to run it, I receive the following message:
"
Clearlastplayed.sh, : 3:, clearlastplayed.sh, : syntax error: redirection unexpected
"

Anyone know what this means?

Cheers.

RetrOkada

@RetrOkada Okay, so all sorted now. To run the script, I was entering sh "clearlastplayed.sh". I tried ./clearlastplayed.sh instead, and it worked perfectly.

I also removed the DOS line breaks from the script, so circumvented the "Bad Interpreter" issue.

ssokolow

Sorry for replying half a year later, but this is showing up in Google results and using grep to edit an XML file risks corrupting it if something else broke the assumption that it's pretty-printed in the right way.

(eg. Python's ElementTree XML library outputs minified XML by default and it took a few revisions to turn on pretty-printing in one of the scripts I wrote.)

The device I'm currently preparing for a family Christmas gift is using Batocera rather than RetroPie, but my solution for this should work on RetroPie too as long as it's got a standard Python 3.x installation.

https://gist.github.com/ssokolow/e1c4b6fceb65bcf4e6d886ce691280bf

(As you can probably tell, I got a little nerd-sniped about making it robust and friendly before I realized I was going way overboard for a self-itch-scratch and stopped short of writing an automated test suite.)

To just clear lastplayed and playcount without also clearing gametime, pass --remove-tag lastplayed --remove-tag playcount as arguments.

Lolonois

@ssokolow Nice work. Works like charm on a RetroPie setup too. Thanks for sharing it under MIT license.