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clrmame Discussion / Re: My clrmame pro is in hospice. I think I killed it.

« on: 20 March 2023, 01:36 »

Yep.  I moved everything to a different external drive and it's almost done doing the entire merge.  It literally took longer to copy everything across than it will to do the merge. 

Thanks again for the help and the great app. 

-Mc

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clrmame Discussion / Re: My clrmame pro is in hospice. I think I killed it.

« on: 19 March 2023, 20:20 »

Using the exact same clrmame pro install I created another profile with dummy folders and no contents and it flew through the process.  So it's not the machine or the install. 

It has to be the drive.  It's a new drive and the health is fine but who knows.  I found another 4tb external drive I'm copying everything over to do all of the merging then I'll moved it back to the other (slow) drive once it's done and see what the MAME performance is like.

Thanks again.  I still don't know specifically what the issue is but I'm pretty sure I know generally. 

-Mc

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clrmame Discussion / Re: My clrmame pro is in hospice. I think I killed it.

« on: 19 March 2023, 17:21 »

When you first start the scan you know how it does the "testing unneeded" first?  It lists 2 roms per second.  When it's doing the scan, it's clearly finding the existing roms as I'm watching the current set/description fields and noticing the games like 1941, 1942, 1943, etc are passing with no issues so that confirms the folder path is correct. 

When I look at the Windows Task Manager it shows almost no usage for CPU, Disk, or Network.  Typically 0% CPU and 0.1 MBS Disk speed.  It's like it's simply running in slow motion.

Windows Compatibility mode did nothing either.  I'm going to install a 2nd copy of clrmame pro and run it against empty folders on the local HD and see how fast that goes.  If it runs normally the issue looks like it is related to the external drive.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: My clrmame pro is in hospice. I think I killed it.

« on: 19 March 2023, 16:40 »

I built the xml file from the official .exe so that's OK.  It was definitely a clean install  (unzipped to a download folder and manually run from the folder - not in a system folder so it isn't a rights issue).  When I initially ran it I had all fix options checked and it did repair a handful of roms (as verified by the file date and time).  It was while I was doing this that I saw how it merged files in.  Unzip, add one file, rezip.  Unzip, and the 2nd file, rezip, etc. etc.  Brand new 4TB drive. 

The fact that it's hanging up during the analysis of the file and not while interacting with an existing ROM file is what has me stumped.  I paid attention to the files it was going slow on and ended up in the "Scan Results" window and if they existed in my ROMs folder I moved them out to see if it would fly by.  It didn't.  As of right now, I'm still at 1%.

My MAME cab that I've always done this on is down so I'm merging using my 2 year old laptop with the hard drive in an enclosure.  Copying large amounts of data back and forth go pretty fast so I assumed it wasn't the drive.  I'm going to disable the Microsoft AV (which I didn't even think of as it's probably trying to scan each and every file) but I didn't think that would interfere with the original scan for files that don't exist. 

A real head scratcher.  As always, thanks for the help.  If and when I figure out the problem I'll report back as an FYI.  I assumed I was the only one having the issue and it wasn't a bug but it's good to get confirmation.

-Mc

EDIT:  Disabling Antivirus didn't make any difference.  Now to do some drive tests...

EDIT 2: I forgot to mention I'm on Windows 11 (where my MAME PC was Windows 7).  I'm waiting for clrmame pro to cancel so I can see if the firewall settings could somehow be an issue as well.

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clrmame Discussion / My clrmame pro is in hospice. I think I killed it.

« on: 19 March 2023, 13:57 »

I've been using clrmame pro since almost the beginning and am very comfortable (and fond) of it.  I hadn't kept my roms and chd's up to date for over a year and decided this weekend to finally merge everything in.  After more than 12 hours of scanning it's only at 1%.  It completes only 3 or 4 per hour and the roms it's taking for ever on aren't ones currently in my set so it's not a matter of unzipping anything. 

Here is my current environment:

I just downloaded the latest clrmame pro a couple days ago and am running the latest version.  I'm running it against the official 0.252.  I'm attempting to run a full scan checking roms, sets, samples, and chds.  I have everything under "fix" unchecked, everything in the advanced fields are set to the defaults, "show stats" and "ask before fixing" are both unchecked.  All of my files are of the .7z variety (all have been maintained by clrmame pro).  Clrmame pro is installed locally on my C drive while all of the roms are on an external drive.  There are no apps running on my PC except for clrmame pro.

I have cancelled and restarted the process a couple times (before I counted the past 12 hours for this current scan), even rebooting the PC in between restarts.  I don't know what else I can check or change to improve the speed. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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clrmame Discussion / Re: New to Software Lists but not new to clrmamepro - help

« on: 25 June 2015, 03:20 »

Thanks Roman.  That helps a ton.  I'll give the XML files way a shot. 

-Mc

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clrmame Discussion / New to Software Lists but not new to clrmamepro - help

« on: 24 June 2015, 13:51 »

Since MAME was merged with MESS, I've been trying to properly scan the MESS software.  There has to be a MUCH easier way than what I'm doing.

After saying yes to Software Lists, do I have to manually select each and every folder for all systems in the advanced tab?  And if I take the time to do that, will I have to do that again when a new MAME comes out and I perform a new scan?  When I do an auto-assign, it just has MAME\ROMS folder listed for all systems.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

-Mc