Metadata from Scraper is not saved after restart

[couchpotatotalk]

everytime I restart my retro pie all of my scraped metadata is wiped out. Am I not saving it? Am I overlooking something? Running 2.3

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[quote=82649]I think the issue has to do with the starting format for the XML files under:

/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/*/gamelist.xml

By default I think they contain (mine were actually blank):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList/>

Which messes with the scrapers. If you manually replace the contents of the files with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
</gameList>

I then run the scraper, I believe it will work…

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[davidesm]

After scraping select the quit emulation station option instead of shutdown or restart. It should save after that point.

[couchpotatotalk]

[quote=82615]After scraping select the quit emulation station option instead of shutdown or restart. It should save after that point.[/quote]
Thanks, I’ll go try that.
*4 mins later*
No go. I properly quit the ES after having added some games. I then pulled the power plug to see if things were saved when it started back up, they were not.

[proxycell]

which systems are you having trouble with?
i got mine to save for some (Sega CD) but not for others like the sega master system

[couchpotatotalk]

[quote=82640]which systems are you having trouble with?
i got mine to save for some (Sega CD) but not for others like the sega master system[/quote]
I am trying NES and SNES. Both are failing to save.

Do I not have permissions correct? I didn’t change anything from the basic install

[couchpotatotalk]

Interesting… I went to /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images and all of the scraped images are there. Weird that Retropie isn’t pulling them up.

gamelist.xml found in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes is blank. Not sure if that’s the issue or not.

[proxycell]

yeah thats the “issue” – i’m still unclear as to what causes it to not be written to the file. i haven’t done NES or SNES yet but I believe you.

i thought it was a permissions issue but I did the following:
sudo chown -R pi /home/pi

that should give me total ownership over everything under it. i have done it with other directories on this system without any issues. You should understand however that the scraper isn’t exactly the best part of RetroPie lol, it has a lot of issues overall and you should consider using the Pi version of sselph’s scraper:
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases

[couchpotatotalk]

[quote=82647]You should understand however that the scraper isn’t exactly the best part of RetroPie lol, it has a lot of issues overall and you should consider using the Pi version of sselph’s scraper:

https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases

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Thanks, I am checking this out now. Are there more clear instructions somewhere? I downloaded the zip but the directions found on the main page don’t make a lot of sense to me.

[bobbyt]

I think the issue has to do with the starting format for the XML files under:

/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/*/gamelist.xml

By default I think they contain:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList/>

Which messes with the scrapers. If you manually replace the contents of the files with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
</gameList>

I then run the scraper, I believe it will work…

[sselph]

[quote=82648]Thanks, I am checking this out now. Are there more clear instructions somewhere? I downloaded the zip but the directions found on the main page don’t make a lot of sense to me.[/quote]

Sorry my directions are very terse. Floob made a nice video but essentially:

• extract the zip and copy the scraper file to the rom directory you wish to scrape.
• ssh to the pi and cd to the rom directory ie( cd ~/RetroPie/roms/snes/ ).
• chmod +x scraper
• ./scraper -thumb_only
• if you get an error about gamesdb being down do ./scraper -thumb_only -use_cache

[couchpotatotalk]

[quote=82649]manually replace the contents of the files with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
</gameList>

I then run the scraper, I believe it will work…
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You are amazing. The gamelist.xml files were actually empty, but when I pasted the above text it now works. Thanks!

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