Prevent duplicate image downloads

[Former user]

Version 7 beta 19 Windows 10

Editing a game and clicking download Images, creates duplicates of all existing images. I would argue this is a bug as no one would want the same 8 images they already have downloaded again? Instead they would like only the images they don't have and/or updated versions on the ones they do have - the latter is admittedly a bit more tricky.

[OmenBoy]

I have this same issue. Even if I set it to prioritize emumovies, I still end up getting images from both emumovies and the LB DB.

[Jason Carr]

This is currently by design, as it is difficult to keep track of all the various sources and check to see what is different. That said, there are a few things we could do:

• Run a checksum check after downloading to determine which images are the same and delete them

• Somehow keep track of image IDs from the LaunchBox Games Database to no re-download the same images (though this doesn't prevent duplicates between the LaunchBox Games Database and EmuMovies)

There's really no good way to do it properly without really difficult and CPU-intensive image processing, which probably isn't going to happen. That said, there are a couple things we can do to improve the situation (above).

[Victor Tabram]

Can I suggest what my music manager software and Kodi managersoftware does for cover art? This, of course, only works for individual ROM edits, but they have a pop-up which shows all the artwork found (with size dimension details) and allows you to select the ones to download.