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clrmame Discussion / Re: Help
« on: 02 December 2010, 08:30 »
Ah...sounds like you had fix-missing enabled.
If cmpro sees that a file is missing, it checks if it finds it somewhere
(e.g. in defined addpaths, in your backup folder and in other sets you already have).
Since there are several files which are shared through dozens of sets, fix-missing finds them and creates them in the set where it was missing. This doesn't mean you get a full set of course.
The Rebuilder is something which can be used to convert collections from one datasource to another (e.g. Kawaks To Mame, etc). It checks any found source file and -if it matches something in your currently loaded dat- it creates all instances of it in the destination.
The rebuilder can also be used as an Adder. Rebuilder destination should point to your current collection then....then you can easily drag'n drop new, not cleaned, unknown files into the rebuilder (or scanner) window, and cmpro adds them to their belonging place...or skips them if they don't match anything useful.
By the way, the statistics screen isn't something you really need....the more important thing is the scanner tree output since it tells you in detail what's wrong with your sets. If nothing is listed anymore there, you're done
By default, all sets are being scanned and reported...so if you only got 1 set, the rest of the 8000 are being reported as fully missing....you can hide such entries or can even limit the number of sets to scan....but that's something for tomorrow (or read the forum sticky items).
If cmpro sees that a file is missing, it checks if it finds it somewhere
(e.g. in defined addpaths, in your backup folder and in other sets you already have).
Since there are several files which are shared through dozens of sets, fix-missing finds them and creates them in the set where it was missing. This doesn't mean you get a full set of course.
The Rebuilder is something which can be used to convert collections from one datasource to another (e.g. Kawaks To Mame, etc). It checks any found source file and -if it matches something in your currently loaded dat- it creates all instances of it in the destination.
The rebuilder can also be used as an Adder. Rebuilder destination should point to your current collection then....then you can easily drag'n drop new, not cleaned, unknown files into the rebuilder (or scanner) window, and cmpro adds them to their belonging place...or skips them if they don't match anything useful.
By the way, the statistics screen isn't something you really need....the more important thing is the scanner tree output since it tells you in detail what's wrong with your sets. If nothing is listed anymore there, you're done
By default, all sets are being scanned and reported...so if you only got 1 set, the rest of the 8000 are being reported as fully missing....you can hide such entries or can even limit the number of sets to scan....but that's something for tomorrow (or read the forum sticky items).
