Hi zigurana,

Yeah this is most likely what is happening.

As for adding my code to ES, I have submitted https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/pull/355 to ES and it is in their unstable branch. This code is somewhat out of date but it is there. Now that Go can create C modules it might be possible to refactor my code or create a small wrapper to allow ES to import it as an optional library so that it is kept more up to date. If you are a programmer and want to look in to this feel free and I’ll be happy to answer any questions.

The other solution to this is that ES was moving to using sqlite for storage and I already have some unchecked in code to also use sqlite. When this happens ES would no longer be dumping everything to the xml on exit which would probably solve the issue.