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    Skyscraper Not scraping some folders for Amiga games

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    • J
      Jimi007
      last edited by Jimi007

      Hi

      I am having a current issue with Skyscraper 3.2.8 scraping amiga games.
      I am using Retropie 4.4.14

      I have current amiga games in folders in alphabetical order eg A B C D E etc

      I run skyscraper and it appears to detect all the files and starts scraping ok.

      When it is finished it appears to have missed whole folders eg it will scrape A folder and B but not C folder.

      I performed a test where i moved all C file to a separate folder called amiga under C.
      I edited the input folder in config.ini and ran skyscraper.
      It then detected the C files and ran ok.

      My question is can I scrape a single folder without having to create an amiga folder under it?
      So can I specify the exact folder to scrape.

      Also has anyone come across this issue.

      Regards

      Jimi

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Hm, looks more like a throttling issue - the scraping is somehow interrupted by the source site somewhere and the rest of the games are not scraped.
        What happens if you re-run the scraper ? Are you using the --refresh option all the time ? this would make Skyscraper re-scrape your already scraped games, ignoring its cached data.

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          Jimi007 @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu Hi I have not tried the --refresh option.
          Do you know if this is available in the config.ini? I am running skyscraper through retropie through the UI.
          I am currently doing a full scrape again and will try this option after this completes.

          Regards Jimi

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @Jimi007
            last edited by

            @Jimi007 Actually I'm suggesting to not use this option, since it makes Skyscraper re-scrape already scraped games. What source of scraping are you using ?

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              Jimi007 @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu I am using Screenscraper as the source and have an account.
              I heard open retro database is good for amiga games but I prefer the images in screenscraper.

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              • J
                Jimi007
                last edited by

                Could be a throttling issue. I have decided to move the amiga games one folder at a time into the roms folder.
                So I will scrape all games beginning with A in the roms folder.
                I'll then do the same with B etc and create a number of gamelist.xmls
                I'l then do a merge of the gamelist.xmls and edit it to point to the correct folders.

                A bit of work but it should hopefully do the trick rather than scraping all at once in different folders.

                Regards
                Jimi

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