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Re: All Game Database & Update Database button "qui

sorry to hear that my plugin swept away your hard work

Yes, the "Update Database" does a complete re-scan of the available roms and rebuilds the database completely. Before that - sadly in your case - all rom entries are erased.

The solution in your case would have been to select the rom and click the DELETE button.

Things I will consider to improve:
1) improve button texts, improve warning text (any suggestions?)
2) do a less aggressive "update database" procedure which conserves the downloaded data.
3) maybe optional: automatically backup the Programdatabase file before deleting many entries.

I need suggestions for 1), I think 2) should be easy to do and I don't really like 3) cause it screams for more follow-up options ("waeberd: please lemme merge data from my last five backup files....").

Tell me what you think!

Daniel

<blockquote data-quote="waeberd" data-source="post: 21266" data-attributes="member: 10343">Re: All Game Database &amp; Update Database button &quot;quisorry to hear that my plugin swept away your hard work <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />Yes, the &quot;Update Database&quot; does a complete re-scan of the available roms and rebuilds the database completely. Before that - sadly in your case - all rom entries are erased.The solution in your case would have been to select the rom and click the DELETE button.Things I will consider to improve:1) improve button texts, improve warning text (any suggestions?)2) do a less aggressive &quot;update database&quot; procedure which conserves the downloaded data.3) maybe optional: automatically backup the Programdatabase file before deleting many entries.I need suggestions for 1), I think 2) should be easy to do and I don't really like 3) cause it screams for more follow-up options (&quot;waeberd: please lemme merge data from my last five backup files....&quot;). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Tell me what you think!Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="waeberd, post: 21266, member: 10343"] [b]Re: All Game Database & Update Database button "qui[/b] sorry to hear that my plugin swept away your hard work :( Yes, the "Update Database" does a complete re-scan of the available roms and rebuilds the database completely. Before that - sadly in your case - all rom entries are erased. The solution in your case would have been to select the rom and click the DELETE button. Things I will consider to improve: 1) improve button texts, improve warning text (any suggestions?) 2) do a less aggressive "update database" procedure which conserves the downloaded data. 3) maybe optional: automatically backup the Programdatabase file before deleting many entries. I need suggestions for 1), I think 2) should be easy to do and I don't really like 3) cause it screams for more follow-up options ("waeberd: please lemme merge data from my last five backup files...."). :-) Tell me what you think! Daniel [/QUOTE]