lotus Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 (edited) I'm using the current beta (7.11-14) and it won't download metadata from the Launchbox GameDB. It only grabs info from Wikipedia. The live release version (7.10) works fine, is this intended? Edited August 24, 2017 by lotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaymore Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I had the same experience with 7.11. Everything is working ok for a couple of days, then GamesDB scraping stops, for no reason, no error messages, just stops. This happened to me several times on different 7.11 betas. Had to roll back to 7.10 release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Can you guys help me reproduce this? Is it happening on imports only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaymore Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Jason, I have no idea how this could be reproduced. In all previous cases, it went like this: I upgrade from 7.10 release to 7.11 beta, play around with it for couple of days, everything works great, then scraping just stops without a warning. Regardless of what I type in "add new game" dialog, I never get any hits in gamesDB, only in Wikipedia. Tried searching for "a" — still no hits Once the scraping stops, it stays this way forever. The only way to fix it is to go back to 7.10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I see, thank you @glaymore. I'm guessing this has to do maybe with a corrupted Metadata.xml file. If by chance you can do any further testing, it would be appreciated. Once it happens, take a look at your LaunchBox\Metadata\Metadata.xml file (maybe in a text editor). Or you could attach it here and I can take a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaymore Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 @Jason Carr, no problem, I'll clone my LB install now and upgrade it to 7.11 beta. If/when the scrape bug hits again, I'll be glad to share whatever information I can. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaymore Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 @Jason Carr, aaaaand the bug strikes back immediately upon upgrade to 7.15beta. Please let me know how I can be of help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 10 minutes ago, glaymore said: @Jason Carr, aaaaand the bug strikes back immediately upon upgrade to 7.15beta. Please let me know how I can be of help. If you can zip up your LaunchBox\Metadata\Metadata.xml file, that might help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaymore Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 @Jason Carr, one LaunchBox\Metadata\Metadata.xml coming right up! Hope this helps. Metadata.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotus Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 (edited) I did a fresh install of 7.11-15 to test this bug again and it won't scrape data from GameDB right off the bat, only Wikipedia. Took a peek at Metadata.xml and it seems fine at first glance but I've uploaded it here just in case. Not sure how to reproduce this bug other than a fresh installation. I don't know if it matters but I installed 7.11-14 from the updates folder, then updated to 7.11-15 and downloaded a metadata update when prompted. Edit: I just did another fresh install of 7.11-14 without updating the version or metadata package and it also won't scrape from GameDB right off the bat. Metadata.zip Edited August 31, 2017 by lotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotus Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 (edited) I did some more testing and I think I've actually found the problem: It won't scrape from the Launchbox DB if the Platform is empty. On 7.10 it still scrapes even if the platform is empty. This could be the only issue, but I'll keep you notified if there are any other scraping issues. Edited August 31, 2017 by lotus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaymore Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 @lotus Yes that's exactly it! Tested it now. If any platform is specified, scraping works OK. If the platform is empty, it won't scrape. Thanks a lot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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