I created the rompath in the root directory totally away from the original directorys I was using. Well I just now uninstalled clrmamepro, and installed the new version, then added the new mame.exe to create the new dat file. I then went to setting and added the test rom path. I enabled all the check marks on the scanner screen so it could find and fix all errors. But even after all that, when I go back to the test directory the file is still there and clrmamepro does not report that it is unneeded. Should I be enabling another setting, I'm confused as to why it's not detecting unneeded files. Here's a screen shot
i just took http://home.comcast.net/~vaultofhorror/test.jpg

Let me know what you think...

> > For a test, I made a new directory and put a few mame roms in there, and also
> > added a fake zip file with only a text document in the zip.
>
> Of course you created that directory in an active rompath, didn't you? The
> folder will be listed as unneeded then (if set + unneeded is enabled). It won't
> list the zipfile inside the folder since the folder itself is already unneeded.
> Enabling 'fix unneeded' will remove it.
>
> Look at this picture. It shows the created folder inside a rompath and how cmpro
> lists it as unneeded.
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
> ClrMamePro
>