Option to remove games that no longer exist on-disk

[James Pyle]

Maybe I just missed this feature, but if you manually delete some files that you had imported, they stay in the file list and you would have to manually delete them.

I had imported 100 Europe files by mistake so I deleted the files, but now I would have to manually select and delete 100 files.

Is there no refresh option (similar to the refresh images option)

[Jason Carr]

Hi James, I assume "option to remove games that no longer exist on-disk" is what you mean. It will need to be an option because people may want to keep games in their collection even when the files might not exist on the current machine.

[James Pyle]

Yes that is exactly correct. The reason is because sometimes like in my instance I imported 100 files I did not intend to (didn't intend to even have) and the only fix is to manually remove them one by one, or remove them in the XML. Both very hard.

An option to remove files no longer existing would fix that :) Another similar feature would be to "remove files" also when removing something manually from the library (I think there is already a ticket for this one)

[James Pyle]

More information on this.

My intent was to leave Europe, Japan etc Regions in my collect and use custom filters to sort, however my scraped roms did not have region info at all, therefore region filters would not work.

So I wanted to remove the non USA regions.

Not sure if scraping issue or what when it comes to regions, I seem to recall NO rom having a Region listed.

[Jason Carr]

I think the lack of regions comes from a lack of data in scrapers. Maybe we could add another ticket for that, I'm not sure if the MAME data contains information on the regions for ROM files.