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[Starshadow]

I know this has been discussed before, and I know that the reason 'Recompress Files' is permanently enabled when rebuilding to 7z files is because there is no code in the 7z SDK to deal with compressed files without decompressing them. But hear me out.

If clrmamepro could determine that a source 7z file already contains a complete set, and that set is currently missing entirely from the rom path, then that 7z file could just be moved or copied straight to the rom path, avoiding comparatively lengthy compression jobs. If the name of the 7z file or the roms is wrong, that could be fixed with rename operations instead of recompression.

Is there something I'm missing that would make this not possible or not make sense? If not, then I'd like to request it as a feature to be enabled by unchecking the 'Recompress Files' checkbox in the rebuilder when 'Compress Files' is set to '.7z'. I've got some rather large 7z files that meet the above criteria and I'm finding myself cancelling the rebuilder on them and moving and renaming them by hand, and it would just be nice, as always, for clrmamepro to do the work for me.

Cheers!

[Roman]

the rebuilder is file based not set based....it actually runs thriugh all single files and all single files in an archive...it doesent really know or care about completness of sets....so a 1:1 copy is not that easy ...

[Starshadow]

Fair enough. Thanks for considering it. I'm thinking about a workaround. I can just move all of the source 7z files into the rom path and let clrmamepro rename the ones that are sets and backup the ones that aren't.

[Roman]

well...the look-ahead idea to see if everything in the source archieve will simply be taken over to the destination is not that new....
I got it on my list for a long time but had no time yet to add it...

it's pretty simple for 1-rom-per-set games or no merging...but if you want to add it generally you have to care about some many tiny things...