Hi Roman,
I'm noticing a strange behaviuor since some time:
1) This is a picture of my present situation: I'm using clrmame 3.122c and pointing it to a freshly compiled mame0.129u5.
After a "new scan" with all fixes activated I'm missing 20 sets and 70 roms
see picture here http://www.citylan.it/immagini/clr1.JPG

2) I do a rebuilt with following result:
created files 57
see picture here http://www.citylan.it/immagini/clr2.JPG

3) I do a "scan" and get the following:
missing sets 20 (as it was at the biginning, like if nothing was rebuilt)
missing roms 12 (which of course is the correct number of what I'm really missing, but it computes bad from 70-57=13 !!)
see picture here http://www.citylan.it/immagini/clr3.JPG

4) I do a second "scan" and finally get the correct count both for sets and roms
see picture here http://www.citylan.it/immagini/clr4.JPG

Is it normal that I have to perform 2 consecutive "scan" to get the right numbers in the statistical window?

ciao
f205v

Rebuilder created files count has nothing to do with scanner's statistic counts so you can't subtract that number from the other count.

"scan" only scans files which were not listed with a problem before...depending on your settings.
Rebuilder can rebuild to any set....

...so in the end...you don't compare apples with apples here.

However the difference from 3) to 4) is a little bit weird


Roman Scherzer

why does it report 20 missing sets in your 1st scan when http://www.citylan.it/immagini/clr1.JPG shows that you don't miss any fully-missing sets?


By the way...I can't repeat your described behaviour.
Try to send me a setup where it is repeatable (minimum dat + config + files + description how to do it...)


Roman Scherzer

> why does it report 20 missing sets in your 1st scan when
> http://www.citylan.it/immagini/clr1.JPG shows that you don't miss any
> fully-missing sets?
That's because I'm scanning only roms (sets, samples, CHDs are de-selected)
This maybe is the cause to this strange behaviour

ciao
f205v

> That's because I'm scanning only roms (sets, samples, CHDs are de-selected)


If you got 'sets' enabled and the multi fish sets are missing why does the tree show the 'X' icon (red cross) instead of the 'fully set missing X' icon (red cross with folder)?
Only possibility is that you're using full merged sets and you got some files of the parent already. But then it shouldn't list any sets as missing in the stats....(at least it doesn't do that here...)

Weird setup ;)


Roman Scherzer

> If you got 'sets' enabled and the multi fish sets are missing why does the tree
> show the 'X' icon (red cross) instead of the 'fully set missing X' icon (red
> cross with folder)?
> Only possibility is that you're using full merged sets and you got some files of
> the parent already. But then it shouldn't list any sets as missing in the
> stats....(at least it doesn't do that here...)
>
> Weird setup ;)

No, no!
Sets is disabled! (as well as samples and CHDs)
I only enable roms.
I keep my roms split.

I have to disable sets, otherwise CHD-only games (like haremchl) are shown as missing. I only keep roms, no interest for samples and CHDs.

Maybe I'm missing something in the way clrmame works; what is the suggested setup if I'm only interested in roms and do not want to have samples and CHDs?

ciao
f205v

> I have to disable sets, otherwise CHD-only games (like haremchl) are shown as
> missing.

You know that you can fool cmpro's setcheck here by simply adding empty rompath subfolders for the chd-only sets in question. :O) You shouldn't disable 'sets'. So you can bypass the missing set warning...however you will still get of course missing chds....

*edit*

Don't turn off sets!!!! There is no reason to turn this off at all!!! Since you're interested in e.g. correctly named setnames (e.g. pacman.zip), aren't you. "Sets" checks the archive itself while "roms" checks the files in the archive.



Roman Scherzer

> You know that you can fool cmpro's setcheck here by simply adding empty rompath
> subfolders for the chd-only sets in question. :O) You shouldn't disable 'sets'.
> So you can bypass the missing set warning...however you will still get of course
> missing chds....
Yes, I know I can foul it, but I do not like "cheating" ;)


>
> *edit*
>
> Don't turn off sets!!!! There is no reason to turn this off at all!!! Since
> you're interested in e.g. correctly named setnames (e.g. pacman.zip), aren't
> you. "Sets" checks the archive itself while "roms" checks the files in the
> archive.
Ok, now I understand better how clrmame works.
My question now is: why is sets selectable at all when the correct way to use clrmame is leaving it always on?
Shouldn't it be logical to wipe away the "sets" parameter avd leave only the other 3?

ciao
f205v

> Shouldn't it be logical to wipe away the "sets" parameter avd leave only the
> other 3?

No. :) why should it be more logical to keep 3 instead of 4?

However I will try to repeat your reported issue next week now that I know you didn't enable sets...if you can repeat it in any way, let me know.



Roman Scherzer

> > Shouldn't it be logical to wipe away the "sets" parameter avd leave only the
> > other 3?
>
> No. :) why should it be more logical to keep 3 instead of 4?
>
> However I will try to repeat your reported issue next week now that I know you
> didn't enable sets...if you can repeat it in any way, let me know.
>
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
>

Dear Roman,
It is some what related to the "sets" setting.
If I enable it statistics show correctly.
If I disable it (leaving only "roms" active) it takes 2 scans to have the correct statistics.

BTW why show statistics for something that has not been scanned at all? Maybe it would be better to only show stats for the things that have been scanned.


ciao
f205v

btw...just changed the stats to report missing/wrong named/etc... only for the enabled stuff...so if you don't have sets enabled, you will see - from now on...