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I don't think it is a bug in LB exactly. The program is trying to download and extract a zip file from Github. Github doesn't support resuming downloads so if there is a failure it has to start all over again. In my case that meant it would perpetually download and never get a valid file. It typically would get around 450 to 550 of the 670MB file. Once I used a hotspot from my phone (instead of the local ISP) everything worked as expected. Something in the routing was killing my download from completing. You can test by trying to download the project Bezel file yourself through your browser and see if it completes. Mine never did. At that point LB is not involved.

I see there are updates for MAME and MAME rom sets. I currently have 245 installed what do I need to do to upgrade to 246? Do I just need the rom set update 245 to 246? How do I get the 246 MAME emulator installed?

Several days later... I discovered that my ISP was somehow throttling my access to Github but no other site. Not only throttling but timing out a lot. They have so far done nothing to resolve the issue. Impossible to download a large file via Github at all. While waiting on them to figure out the issue I decided to make my phone a hotspot and then connect the PC to it only. I was able to download everything normally. I doubt anyone else will ever run into this odd issue again but thought I should make a follow-up post to tell what I did to resolve it.

The exe installer allowed me to get the bezels installed so thank you fromlostdays for that help!

So bottom line is I can't use bezels apparently. Since the download happens with Github and it fails constantly then I have no options. Crap.

I managed to get both folders MAME and SA-MAME downloaded via the Github desktop app in Windows. No zip file but the individual files and folders. I am including a shot of the folder structure (same in both) Can someone tell me what folders to copy to LaunchBox and where they go?

The two downloads constantly fail through firefox or chrome if trying directly. I've let Launchbox go at it overnight but it never completes. If those files were somewhere else I could likely get it intact but Github is the only site where I cannot complete large downloads. I have to find out why Github keeps failing to download while I can download other sites (with larger files) without an issue.

Found them on github: Both zip files are "invalid" and have errors when trying to extract them. bezelproject-MAME-master.zip bezelprojectSA-MAME-master.zip How can you install them manually? Importing image packs does not show an option for "bezel." Discovered that anytime I try to download the files they never get fully downloaded and therefore corrupt. Probably why the failure for the import in Launchbox as well.

That kills the download. I tried to restart it several times even selecting only system or only theme bezels but it typically gets about 40% across when it starts over again. Is there anyway to download the bezels outside the app (ftp or something?) and manually place them in a folder? Is there anyway to find out why the download keeps restarting?

I will try that and see what happens.

I installed the full mame rom set and selected to download the bezels. The application appears to download, then start over after some point. (timeout maybe?) If I hit cancel the application seems to be stuck and will not cancel. If I restart the app it starts trying to download again over and over. How can I determine what the issue is causing the download to restart over and over? Is there some way to stop the reattempting besides the cancel which does not seem to work?

I started the update all metadata and media and after it went through all the games it shows a new download "Downloading bezel pack bezelProject-Mame..." which seems to go slowly and gets about halfway? across and then starts over again. Is there a log somewhere that I can look at to see why it looks like it is failing part way through and restarting the entire download? Let it run overnight but still have the same issue. Downloads for a while then restarts. I looked in the LOGS folder under LaunchBox but there isn't anything there. Pressing Cancel causes the download to apparently stop however the download bar shows a windows spinning (busy) icon and never seems to actually stop. If I exit and restart LaunchBox then the download starts over again.