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Updated to the beta, and this seems to have fixed the issue. I am not sure if this is new behavior, or if it is something I never noticed before, but when you select the Download Metadata and Media from the Tools menu, I think it used to scan the entire library, whereas now it seems to only scan whatever is currently selected. This is actually a good thing - I prefer what it's doing now. I've been able to re-scan and redownload some of the problematic collections and so far, no stalling from EmuMovies. Good job.

I've had betas enabled on previous installs of Launchbox with no issues. Will do it again for this one, thanks.

I've been rebuilding my entire Launchbox setup, and have imported thousands of ROMs and downloaded all media and metadata available for all collections... up until this weekend. I was bringing in some largish collections - Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, and started to run into issues with coming back to the program after leaving it to run overnight, and finding it stalled in the download process partway through. The error that shows up indicated that a session has expired, or that I am being asked to log in again (I am assuming EmuMovies is the culprit in those cases). Snippet from last night's log: 2021-09-27 08:08:24 AM Downloading "http://api.gamesdbase.com/5c35342ec836375e38c8355d3531372b65336461c62ba060ffddc9f75ec86c6466c85bc5d2676455c86e72c8726ccf6e6f606262c867645fd262ce5a75c62dc65e2b363135.png" to "E:\LaunchBox\Images\Commodore Amiga\Screenshot - Game Title\Assassin_ Special Edition-01.png" 2021-09-27 08:08:24 AM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: The remote server returned an error: (404) Session has expired. Please login.. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.SendRequest() 2021-09-27 08:08:24 AM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: The remote server returned an error: (404) Session has expired. Please login.. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.SendRequest() at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() 2021-09-27 08:08:24 AM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: The remote server returned an error: (404) Session has expired. Please login.. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() 2021-09-27 08:08:24 AM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: The remote server returned an error: (404) Session has expired. Please login.. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at System.Net.WebClient.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request) at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadBits(WebRequest request, Stream writeStream) 2021-09-27 08:08:24 AM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: The remote server returned an error: (404) Session has expired. Please login.. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at System.Net.WebClient.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request) at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadBits(WebRequest request, Stream writeStream) at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadFile(Uri address, String fileName) 2021-09-27 08:08:24 AM EmuMovies 404 error, updating URLs At this point the program gets stalled and sits for a very long time in this state. I had 61 errors in the error list that all said that the session had expired. Seems to me that the appropriate thing the program should be doing is to renew the connection to the database(s) (start a new session, resend credentials) before trying again.

I've done a Clean Up Media... pass and it found quite a number of duplicate/unused images. I also deleted the Images/Cache-xx folders. Now if f I process each collection separately all seems to be working well.

Nothing really - just the progress indicator at the lower left stops updating. Can't hit cancel, nor minimize the program. I have left it to do its thing for a good long time and usually its just frozen in that state. Using Task Manager to kill the process generally gives me back control of the computer. When I restart LaunchBox it wants to continue downloading, but just runs into the same issue immediately. I should note that I think at the point it has done this, it is finished collecting all of the metadata from Launchbox.com -- the lockup happens when it begins fetching data from emumovies. And yes, I have checked that my subscription to emumovies is currently valid, and I am able to otherwise log into their website with my credentials.

I can't even minimize the program or do anything else. How long do you imagine I should be waiting when it is stuck at downloading item 7 of 16348 for more than an hour?

I've been trying to scan for metadata and media updates. The process goes through a very lengthy scan, appears to complete updating the metadata, but seems to lockup very early on in the downloading process. Has anyone else reported problems in this area? I'm trying various things to see if it is a problem local to me, or some issue with the program. Running 11.16-beta-5