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clrmame Discussion / Re: How do I check ROMs/ISOs split across several directories?

« on: 04 November 2021, 19:40 »

- or split up the datfile...

Duh! Of course, that's the way to go!

I need to see if mounting a directory in another directory could work (eg, mount G:\ROMS2 in F:\ROMS1). That way I'd have a single directory with everything in it (I should have mentioned I'm using Windows 10 x64, so NTFS).

Thank you for the tip! I'll get busy on the dat and make 2 or 3 separate dats.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: How do I check ROMs/ISOs split across several directories?

« on: 04 November 2021, 13:05 »

Good call!

By your terminology, I have a collection of ISOs that don't fit on the hard drive. This collection has 1369 sets, each of which consists of a single ISO of either 4.37 GB or 8.74 GB.

If that helps, we're talking about a Redump collection (I don't know if we're allowed to discuss/give details about this kind of things on these forums).

Sorry I wasn't more specific.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: How do I check ROMs/ISOs split across several directories?

« on: 04 November 2021, 12:40 »

Thank you Roman for your super-quick reply!

Well, generally multiple rompaths aren't a problem since you can setup as much rompaths as you want (Settings->Rompaths).
If you now say that one set is split up on two drives....I actually wonder why

That is correct, the set is split over 2 drives. That's because it is too big to fit entirely on a drive (complete set is about 6.26 TB, hard drive has 5.45 TB available space).

I tried setting multiple ROMs folders, but I must be doing something wrong, because cmpro either only scans the System-Default path ignoring all other paths, or doesn't scan anything if I don't set the System-Default path.

I was thinking, is there a way to make 2 or more directories appear as one outside of cmpro?

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clrmame Discussion / How do I check ROMs/ISOs split across several directories?

« on: 04 November 2021, 12:26 »

Hello,

It is my first post on these forums, so I'll start by greeting everyone!

How do I scan a set that is split across several directories/drives?

Example:

F:\ROMS_1
G:\ROMS_2

Both directories containing ROMs from the same set. How do I have to set up cmpro for this to work?

Thanks a lot for your time reading this.