[Will "Import -> ROM Files..." download everything from EmuMovies all over again or just what I'm missing?]

On 2/15/2022 at 7:52 PM, faeran said:

The scanning tool will scan the files listed in your Game folder and import any new ROMs it finds. Right click your platform and go into Edit. Then click on the Folders tab. You'll find it there.

The next major release of LaunchBox (currently in beta), we will set this path for you automatically based on the first file path we find during your import.

This feature will not work properly if you spread out games for a given platform into multiple different folders, but it works great if you keep things nice and organized.

Everything's only in one directory per emulator, so that's not a problem. My issue was seeing art-less R.O.M.s in LaunchBox and assuming Scan would go "Hey. This is missing media. Let's check for that."

Am I missing a way to accomplish this without having to do the entire folder over again?

[Will "Import -> ROM Files..." download everything from EmuMovies all over again or just what I'm missing?]

When I go to Tools -> Import -> ROM Files..., I select the file directory with my games for a given platform, point LaunchBox to the emulator I want to use with those games, and then it goes through the rather lengthy process of downloading art/media/etc. from EmuMovies. This is awesome and working as intended during my initial setup of each respective emulator/game directory.

However, my assumption was that the "Scan" feature was essentially the abbreviated version of this (i.e. if I added 1-2 games for that same platform, it would scan that folder for just the new games and download the art/media/etc. for just them as if I had used Import -> ROM Files... for those two games and not the whole directory). Nothing happens (that I can tell) when I click on Tools -> Scan -> For Added [current platform] ROMs, though.

Am I off the mark here in what the Scan feature does? I was afraid that using Import -> ROM Files... would attempt to download everything from EmuMovies again, even existing art/media/etc., which I do not want outside of this initial setup.

Tools -> Download came close, but the first option is for all metadata. Unsure if this also accounts for existing art/media/etc.

Any direction here would be appreciated to save me a bunch of time in downloading. Thanks in advance!