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    PSX Gamelist 0B?

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    • GreenHawk84G
      GreenHawk84
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      Hello,

      Recently I tried to add a game in .RAR format to my PSX roms, and oddly I saw my scraped data was not showing.

      I looked into the gamelist file for PSX and noticed it's now totally blank. Has anyone seen this before?

      Doubtful there is a way to recover this file other than using an old backup to start over again.

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      • GreenHawk84G
        GreenHawk84 @GreenHawk84
        last edited by

        I also found this at the time of shutdown:

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by

          This looks like a full or damaged SD card. How much free space do you have on the sdcard ?

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          • GreenHawk84G
            GreenHawk84 @mitu
            last edited by

            @mitu you are always such a great help, thank you for your replies over the years here.

            I ran the command df -h:
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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator
              last edited by mitu

              Seeing your main partition (/) is at 99% usage, my bet is you can't create any more (larger) files as regular user. Free up some space and check again if the gamelist for psx is created when you close/restart EmulationStation.

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              • GreenHawk84G
                GreenHawk84 @mitu
                last edited by

                @mitu so I grabbed my backup SD card with a recent build and grabbed the psx gamelist.xml from there. I swapped it back out for the problem build and removed some cores I am not using. I deleted the problem gamelist.xml and replaced it with the backup. 99% of my scrapes are back and seems working now.

                To anyone reading this, back up your image with a 2nd SD card, or at least copy your gamelists/roms/downloaded_images to a PC. This is really critical if you spent a ton of time perfecting your build.

                I also bought a 64gb card so I can migrate and expand the space. I think over time the updates to Retropie might start consuming more space to the edge of some builds. Plus if you add a game here and there of course.

                Thanks mitu for your advice to a simple issue!

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                • sirhenrythe5thS
                  sirhenrythe5th @GreenHawk84
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                  @GreenHawk84 said in PSX Gamelist 0B?:

                  To anyone reading this, back up your image with a 2nd SD card, or at least copy your gamelists/roms/downloaded_images to a PC. This is really critical if you spent a ton of time perfecting your build.

                  I use to backup all relevant files to my smartphone.
                  This gives you the option to have all these files & folders ready anywhere and anytime :D

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