> As the subject heading says, when I try to scan my Control Panel Packs (from the
> .dat file downloaded in WWW mode), ClrMame 3.87a hangs.
>
> If I open SysInternals Filemon, I see that when CMP scans the last file in the
> (cpanel) directory, it starts back at the beginning again, resulting in a never
> ending scan loop.
>
> Steve
>



It's not a never ending loop.
Well...most likely you got fixmissing enabled in combination with scanner's advanced option "fix missing scans all sets". This is of course overkill. It will scan each and any file in addpaths and backup and maybe even the cpanels.zip itself for any missing file.

Working and especially fix operations on huge zipfiles (huge in terms of archived files) take long. Very long under some circumstance. Enabled virusscanners will easily double the time, too.

For the "art" sets it's always much more clever to do a full rebuild instead of using the scanner to fix names etc. It's much faster (esp. when you don't use 'recompress').


Roman Scherzer