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    Odd error parsing certain MS-DOS games

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      SartreFan
      last edited by SartreFan

      Having trouble getting a few DOS games to show up when the "parse gamelist only" option is enabled. This is the error that is showing up in the es_log file

      lvl0: Error finding/creating FileData for ""/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/LEMMINGS"", skipping.
      lvl1: gameList: folder doesn't already exist, won't create

      I've double checked the folder and it is definitely there.

      I can't seem to find any difference between these failed folders and the ones that parse properly. Any thoughts?

      EDIT: after racking my brain all day on this I finally found the solution. Posting it here just in case anyone else runs into this issue. When scraping through Emulation Station, I was scraping the main folder for the game but it was not also scraping the files inside the folder. I had to manually add the EXE in the gamelist file to get it to show up.

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