Hi there. I got down the latest Snap DAT from here (.92) and ran it against my snaps - just as a curiosity really, as I have a picture for virtually everything, but wanted to know how many un-needed files were in there. The end result was around 1600 files skipped - the filenames are right so what could be the reason? Thanks in advance.

> Hi there. I got down the latest Snap DAT from here (.92) and ran it against my
> snaps - just as a curiosity really, as I have a picture for virtually
> everything, but wanted to know how many un-needed files were in there. The end
> result was around 1600 files skipped - the filenames are right so what could be
> the reason? Thanks in advance.


A file is skipped if it already exists in the rebuilder destination or doesn't match anything from the database. If you want to know which are unneeded, you can also scan them with the belonging datfile.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

> > Hi there. I got down the latest Snap DAT from here (.92) and ran it against
> my
> > snaps - just as a curiosity really, as I have a picture for virtually
> > everything, but wanted to know how many un-needed files were in there. The
> end
> > result was around 1600 files skipped - the filenames are right so what could
> be
> > the reason? Thanks in advance.
>
>
> A file is skipped if it already exists in the rebuilder destination or doesn't
> match anything from the database. If you want to know which are unneeded, you
> can also scan them with the belonging datfile.
>
> Roman Scherzer
> ClrMamePro
>
Thanks, Roman - I'll give it a bash.