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Updating custom collections doesn't take effect anymore

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    mitu Global Moderator @Yobiwan
    last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 17:44

    @Yobiwan said in Updating custom collections doesn't take effect anymore:

    Maybe you could explain how ES is really interacting with xml, it could help users to avoid this phenomenon in the future.

    What phenomenon ? I don't understand how ES 'messed' something . By default, if you delete a ROM file, ES will not delete its entry from the gamelist.xml, which is not an issue since the ROM will simply not be shown in the gamelist. I also don't understand what does this have to do with the custom collection ?

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      pjft
      last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 17:44

      I think that the real way to help users avoid this in the future is to actually create the collection they way it was designed to be created, which is straight in ES. Is there a reason for that not being your approach and for you choosing to resort to a text editor?

      The collections will only load any games that exist in the gamelists that are loaded in ES. The XML will not be "corrupted" as such - ES only saves and knows whatever you load into it.

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        Yobiwan @mitu
        last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 17:51

        @mitu Actually I manually paste roms names that weren't in the gamelist in cfg collections files. What I can't figure out is how these paths in the gamelist are pointing to the precedent romset. I had scrapped everything in the rules.

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          Yobiwan @pjft
          last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 17:55

          @pjft I'm using custom collections from a Wolfanoz image. I included some of his romsets in my own retropie image and I kept his collections. I added some new roms in it, so I had to edit manually the cfg files.

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            mitu Global Moderator @Yobiwan
            last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 18:01

            Actually I manually paste roms names that weren't in the gamelist in cfg collections files

            So this is the reason why the .cfg file is incorrect.

            What I can't figure out is how these paths in the gamelist are pointing to the precedent romset. I had scrapped everything in the rules.

            What are you using for scraping ? The built-in scraper doesn't prune any non-existing entries and I think scraper also has an option to only add missing entries. If unsure, you can always delete the gamelist and re-scrape to generate a fresh gamelist file.

            I'm using custom collections from a Wolfanoz image.

            We don't support 3rd party images.

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              Yobiwan @mitu
              last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 18:08

              @mitu Yes, I was afraid I did something wrong with my collections but finally no worry about that. The culprit was a bad gamelist. I don't know what exactly happened and I am very stubborn to understand how things happen !
              I'm using Scraper. Maybe I forgot to remove the last gamelist when I scrapped the new romset, it is the most plausible explanation.
              Waiting now... I hope it will be fine.

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                Yobiwan
                last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 18:16

                What would be awesome is to provide the possibility to add a rom to any custom collection through options menu. I'm regularly updating my romsets and I'm updating custom collections too, but I found anything to do it in ES.

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                  mitu Global Moderator @Yobiwan
                  last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 18:24

                  @Yobiwan said in Updating custom collections doesn't take effect anymore:

                  I'm regularly updating my romsets and I'm updating custom collections too, but I found anything to do it in ES.

                  Isn't this explained already in the Docs ?

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                    pjft @mitu
                    last edited by 9 Oct 2020, 18:27

                    @mitu Just saying, whoever wrote those is a hero. My thanks for that endeavor, whoever it was. I am a terrible procrastinator at documenting these things :(

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                      Yobiwan
                      last edited by Yobiwan 10 Sept 2020, 19:42 9 Oct 2020, 18:32

                      OMG I like to complicate my life ! Sorry for the inconvenience. I will read more the docs from now on. When I think about it... I learned a lot from my negligence. It can be enjoyable to look outside the box.

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