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    empty /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml

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      Aryetis
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      Woke up this morning, started the pie, for some reasons it had 0 literally bytes left. Did some cleaning, some updating. And I don't know if it's due to my cleaning or a faulty update but my /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml is completly empty. Would someone kindly upload its gamelist.xml please ?

      RetroPie Version : 4.1.15

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        paradadf @Aryetis
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        @Aryetis it doesn't work like that. Didn't you know that the gamelist.xml depends on the roms you have? If you use someone else's gamelists, you'll end up with a list of entries pointing to roms you (modt likely) don't have.
        The best you can do is scrape everything again. But I suppose you know how to do it already ;)

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          Aryetis @paradadf
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          @paradadf Yeah I noticed but there is a gamelist.xml specific for each "emulator"/"EmulationStation Entry" . And I'm asking specifically for the retropie's entry gamelist.xml <=> the one repertoring retropie-setup, raspiconfig, etc etc .We should all have this one in common at least (using retropie 4.1.15 btw, will edit my post to add this). This is the only one who got corrupted for some reason.

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            Aryetis @paradadf
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            @paradadf So can you help me on this one please ?

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              paradadf @Aryetis
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              @Aryetis sorry, I have no idea what your are talking about. I'm into the scraping stuff, but I don't use retropie.

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                BuZz administrators @Aryetis
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                @Aryetis run sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh from terminal and reinstall the menu from packages -> core -> retropiemenu or so

                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  Aryetis @BuZz
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                  @BuZz That's the first thing I did, sadly it didn't fix anything. Moreover there was a bunch of errors during the reinstallation process. Nothing showing up in /var/logs/* but I managed to catch a glimpse at a bunch of those flashing lines and it was something about "empty directories"

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                    Aryetis @BuZz
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                    @BuZz Any other ideas ? Does retropie_setup.sh have logs or do I have to keep track of it (console outoutput in the background) myself to track down what seems to be a bug in the reinstallation process ?

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                      BuZz administrators @Aryetis
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                      @Aryetis it makes logs in RetroPie-Setup/logs/

                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                        Aryetis @BuZz
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                        @BuZz Thanks for the help, sadly it didn't contain any important information .... the log was just complaining that gamelist.xml (the file I'm trying to rebuild) is empty .... Here's the log : http://pastebin.com/ZkzhxRYR

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                          retronoobie3000
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                          I know this is an old topic, but I had the same issue recently. The way it got fixed was by going into retropie_setup.sh as suggested above and uninstalling the retropie menu and immediately reinstalling it. The gamelist.xml was rewritten and everything world great.

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                            ataylor @retronoobie3000
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                            @retronoobie3000 I can confirm this to work. I had my retropie gamelist.xml get wiped somehow and attempted to update the package via RetroPie-Setup. A bunch of errors showed that the xml was empty. I then removed and reinstalled the menu package and that repopulated my xml file just fine. Everything is working now.

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