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clrmame Discussion / Problem Scanning an SMB Volume

« on: 14 March 2025, 07:43 »

This may be very well a problem with my setup and not ClrMAME itself, but maybe one of you had a similar problem and knows a workaround.

For years I've been using VMware Fusion on macOS (for Intel based machines) with a feature called "shared folder" to make an external drive accessible for scanning. Having exchanged my old Mac mini for a newer model using Apple Silicon, I noticed that the current version of Fusion does not support that feature.

A way to get around is to use macOS's built-in SMB file server and access the files using Windows built-in SMB client. I'm now able to access all the files on the disk from Windows and ClrMAME sees the whole folder hierarchy as documented in the screenshot below:



But running a scan results in the following error:

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error analyzing . failed due to directory_iterator::directory_iterator: Invalid Signature.: "."
Does somebody have an idea what's going wrong here?

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clrmame Discussion / Duplicates that don't even exist

« on: 31 January 2025, 13:50 »

I used the new 0.2 release to check my MAME 0.274 ROM set. Initially, I got the following error:

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Quizard (v1.2, Italian, i8751 IT 11 I2) [quizardi_12] [cloneof: quizard]
multiple machine: quizardi_12 [dupes: \\Mac\MAME\ROMs\quizardi_12.zip;\\Mac\MAME\ROMs\quizardi_12.zip]

Quizard (v1.7, Italian, i8751 IT 11 I2) [quizardi_17] [cloneof: quizard]
multiple machine: quizardi_17 [dupes: \\Mac\MAME\ROMs\quizardi_17.zip;\\Mac\MAME\ROMs\quizardi_17.zip]
I noticed that the file names of the 2 supposedly duplicates were identical, but there was just one of each file. Even after deleting those files, they are still shown after another scan as duplicates.

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News & Communication / CleanTalk flags my posts as spam

« on: 30 August 2024, 13:25 »

The board software is sometimes extremely frustrating because all I'm getting when trying to post something with a picture in it is a message from CleanTalk stating it is considering my post as spam.

What can I do about that?

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clrmame Discussion / Convert ClrMAME unneeded masks to new scanner format

« on: 30 August 2024, 12:44 »

Hi,

for years I've been using the following masks with ClrMAME on macOS:



The first line is for custom icon folders. The asterisk is needed because there is an invisible character at the end of the name that I don't know and can't type. The second line is for folders that reside on servers and contains some housekeeping values for that folder (like window position and size etc.).

I've tried a lot of different formats but I can't get it right on scanner. Would somebody please be so nice and show me how it's done?

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clrmame Discussion / Is it possible to use network mounts?

« on: 02 July 2024, 21:13 »

Just tried it in Windows 11 but no network mounts are shown (nor are any shortcuts to one).