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clrmamepro [English] => clrmame Discussion => Topic started by: geekbrain on 28 January 2017, 15:20
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Every few releases, the support files (cabinets, cpanel, flyers, marquees, titles, etc.) seem to lose an entry here or there. I think I realized what is happening. On new releases I was doing a rebuild BEFORE scanning the pack with the new DAT file. I suspect the rebuilding process was overwriting an entry that should have been renamed FIRST. Can anyone confirm my suspicions? If these suspicions are true, I can avoid doing so in the future but is there a way to alter the rebuilder to prevent others from suffering the same lapse of judgment (i.e. at least a warning)?
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The rebuilder is a pure "adder". It adds files (which match the checksum) from a source to the destination. If a different file already exists at that place (and doesn't match the checksum), this file is moved to backup first.
So yes, it's pretty common that files which might belong to a different place (due to renames, reorganizations) gets overwritten by the rebuilder....but they are not lost, they are in the backup folder (unless you untick the belonging make-backups option.
The standard way to update sets is running the scanner first with all check/fix options, THEN use the rebuilder to add the missing stuff.
So you only need to rebuild your cmpro backup folder and you get your files back.