Merger Dialog

What's merging anyway ? Some sets are so called 'parent' or 'clone' sets. They share some ROMs and it's possible to put these files in the same sets. That's merging. There are three kinds of storing sets:

  1. No Merging - every single gameset has all files it needs in its set.
  2. Split (Merging) - files which belongs to the parent set are stored in this parent set. Other files stay at their places.
  3. (Full) Merging - all clone files are also stored in the parent set. So you only have the parent set with all clones in it.

Unmerging is the opposite of merging and it will create sets which aren't merged. (Compare 'No Merging')

Merging can last from seconds to hours. That depends on the amount of files, the filesizes, your CPU, your HD the zipcompressionlevel and the thread priority. It's possible to stop the process at any time.

Be warned: The backup option in the settings dialog doesn't work for merging ! Use (disable) the CleanSet/Remove Old Parent/Clones instead if you don't want to lose any data. It's extremely importanat that all ROMnames are 100% ok before merging ! So do a name scan first and fix wrong named ROMs ! You shouldn't have any missing doubled ROMs either. So disable the 'hide missing double' option.

Hint: in most case the Rebuilder is the better choice.


The options:

The titlebar shows the current number of enabled games. For further information check out the settings dialog. Always be careful if the number doesn't match your selected number.


With the following two options you set your wanted merge method.

 

 

Now you can also specify what to do with the files and the old files.

With the placement options you specify where the new merged roms will be put to.

 

Gameset which are neither parents nor clones stay in their original places !

And finally the two important buttons to start the unmerging or merging process.