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I just waited for some gigabytes to be removed from 7z archives and zipped to backup folder. That is when I started to wonder if zipping could be skipped.

Uncompressed backup folder would be nice option, thank you.

If a file within an archive is unneeded it gets moved to the backup folder and since 7z does not support a direct copy of compressed data, you always have a decompress + compress step, so it doesn't really matter if zip or 7z is used. Actually zip would even be faster since it would support direct copy of compressed data (but currently I don't know if this is used when backing up data...I somehow doubt it).
Generally for backup zip is used. You can't change it.

"waste, because files will often be re-compressed with 7-Zip again"
erm...why? If cmpro moves files to the backup they usually stay there since they are unneeded.

"Too much time"....well, usually (unless you scan a completely wrong path), you only have some unneeded files which get moved to backup...so the time argument is not really that important in my opinion....and as I said, no matter if you use 7z or zip, the files get decompressed and recompressed anyhow just for backup.

Maybe I change this for the new scanner....

Hello, I am using 7-Zip as a compressor, no problem here. But when clrmamepro is backing up files to backup folder, it always zips those files (7z -> zip).

How does one stop that behavior? Uncompressed files are OK when backing up, zipping just takes too much time (and is waste, because files will often be re-compressed with 7-Zip again).

That probably is a problem only when using external packer, internal zipper handles that kind of situation OK.

I've managed to find the problem thanks to your reply: there was a zip and a 7z with the same filename. I was using BatchMode, that's why I couldn't see the warning. Thank you!

Ensure you got all sets enabled (Scanner->SetInformation->Select All), all check options enabled and do a new scan. If you like, you can somehow send me the datfile....
Or you can try to hit Profiler's "Refresh List" button.

I have nothing missing on the Watara - Supervision dat (zero on Missing Sets, Missing ROMs, Missing CHDs and Missing Bytes) but I don't get a green check mark.

Hello,

I want to bring up this topic again to ask if there are plans to add this option in a future version of clrmamepro.

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