Gamelist does not update correctly: deleted games are still shown
As described in this post: https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/21952/game-list-visibility-after-delete-roms
In a clean installation, without modifications, adding games, deleting them and updating the list of games by ES, makes it appear that the list has been updated correctly. But, when restarting, the game is still shown on the gamelist. With the option of gamelist only enabled, repeating the process, the game in question disappears, but, after redoing the procedure, the next deleted game will have the same problem (the option of gamelist only enabled or disabled generates the bug anyway. Changing sometimes it gives the impression that the bug was fixed - but it was not). To reproduce the error, just add some games in a clean install (gamelist only disabled), delete a ROM, update the game list, and restart. The error happens randomly after restarting, but the percentage of times it happens is higher than the percentage of times it doesn't.
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I can confirm the issue here. I have deleted games using the ES interface (mostly the games included by default). When booting Recalbox, those games are displayed. If I select UI Settings > Update Game Lists (which causes ES te restart) it temporarily fixes the issue… until the next reboot.
Edited by djibI figured it out what part of the issue is, but I don't know why it happens:
- If you delete all roms, there is one more file present in the rom directory: gamelist.xml
- After choosing UI Settings > Update Game Lists, the systems (from which you deleted all roms) are not visible anymore.
- But if you now restart the whole system, the games show up again based on the presence of the old gamelist.xml file.
I cannot understand why when using the Update Game Lists (which just restarts ES) behaves correctly and does not show the games, but when restarting the whole system the games show back.
The easy fix is to delete the gamelist.xml. Anyway, there is an inconsistency here, easy to reproduce and investigate. Maybe someone has time to look into it.
