errors downloading metadata

[Soop]

I just got this going yesterday and set it downloading metadata overnight, but despite it chugging along to begin with, I came down today to see a load of sign-in errors and barely any progression.  I googled the problem, and it seems like one that's been around for a long time, but it doesn't seem like anyone is sure what the cause is, or if anyone has actually fixed it.  I see some posts by the admin stating that it "should be fixed in version x", but it's obviously still an issue.  It seems like the timeout for a failure needs to be significantly decreased for one thing.  Can anyone tell me if this is possible?

The second part is that the UI informed me that I could cancel the metadata download and restume it at any time, but I had several thousand items left to download this morning, and after a restart, I can't seem to get LB to progress.  I've tried Tools > "download metadata and media" but this just downloaded media for one game.  How do I resume the downloads?

Edited August 7, 2021 by Soop

[Retro808]

1 hour ago, Soop said:

I just got this going yesterday and set it downloading metadata overnight, but despite it chugging along to begin with, I came down today to see a load of sign-in errors and barely any progression.  I googled the problem, and it seems like one that's been around for a long time, but it doesn't seem like anyone is sure what the cause is, or if anyone has actually fixed it.  I see some posts by the admin stating that it "should be fixed in version x", but it's obviously still an issue.  It seems like the timeout for a failure needs to be significantly decreased for one thing.  Can anyone tell me if this is possible?

Not sure what version you are on. However, the issue seems to be a timeout issue if you are also downloading from Emumovies. If memory serves me correct I believe there is a 15 minute or so timeout involving EmuMovies API. So until something is figured out the work around is to either uncheck downloading media from Emumovies or run it in chunks of say 500 games at a time.

1 hour ago, Soop said:

The second part is that the UI informed me that I could cancel the metadata download and restume it at any time, but I had several thousand items left to download this morning, and after a restart, I can't seem to get LB to progress.  I've tried Tools > "download metadata and media" but this just downloaded media for one game.  How do I resume the downloads?

This is likely because you only had one game selected. You have to select all the games you want to download the media for. That option is not a general one that runs the downloader for all games if you select it. So you either go to a specific platform and select all the games or you can be in the All Games view and choose you full library.

[Soop]

3 hours ago, Retro808 said:

Not sure what version you are on. However, the issue seems to be a timeout issue if you are also downloading from Emumovies. If memory serves me correct I believe there is a 15 minute or so timeout involving EmuMovies API. So until something is figured out the work around is to either uncheck downloading media from Emumovies or run it in chunks of say 500 games at a time.

This is likely because you only had one game selected. You have to select all the games you want to download the media for. That option is not a general one that runs the downloader for all games if you select it. So you either go to a specific platform and select all the games or you can be in the All Games view and choose you full library.

Got it, I'll try again and see if I can get it working - thanks for the reply

Edit:  that seems like it's working, and it's waayyyy faster - thanks a lot!

Edited August 7, 2021 by Soop