Inconsistent behaviour in NON folder-mode view

[jandal55]

I am noticing that only 48 of ~250 bin/cue format games are populating the games list I am using a number of multiple bin/cue folders - mostly from the redump romset. Some games with multiple bin files do work, but the majority dont. It seems to disproportionately affect them, but it may be coincidence.

Initially more of these were fine but when I cleaned up file names (removed region, languages etc), most became broken. The method i used to rename everything was something like this:

for folder in /Volumes/X-Station/ do echo "sed -i s/ (USA)//g $folder/*.cue" done

and doing multiple rename for files/folders from the MacOS GUI.

I know what youre thinking - but I have confirmed CUE files point at the correct filename, and all folder names match both BIN and CUE. Case matches too.

I initially suspected it was some kind of encoding problem or a difference in the way MacOS does carriage return or something, but have ruled this out by editing a fresh CUE file from the Redump CUE set. Also used tool at (https://www.duckstation.org/cue-maker/) to download a fresh CUE built from current folder contents. I also tried clearing out both TXT files and having them re-populate from scratch to confirm no writing issues to SD. Finally, I also attempted to re-flash the firmware with the latest version again - this was successful but had no effect.

My Firmware version is 1.6.1 and im using a PU-18 NTSC mobo.
SD is 128GB and in ExFat format. Everything works correctly in the folder view.

Interestingly, If i manually add a game (eg Parodius) to both the games.txt and gamescache.txt, it works just fine, but then if i refresh my game list it will be cleared out again.

Ive included my .txt files, as well as example CUEs (renamed to TXT - Alundra working, Parodius not working) and md5 hashes for BIN files, and directory listings. Hopefully this can rule out some kind of metadata issue.

NOTE: Parodius is the PAL version, but this problem affects NTSC region games also - I've used Parodius as the example because its a single-word filename. MD5 does match the redump disc hash though (http://redump.org/disc/19126/).

Parodius.TXT Alundra.TXT games.txt gamescache.txt history.txt config.txt

% ls -la /Volumes/XStation/Alundra total 1173504 drwxrwxrwx 1 user group 131072 9 May 2020 . drwxrwxrwx 1 user group 131072 1 Jan 1980 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 600359760 9 Oct 2019 Alundra.bin -rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 70 9 Nov 11:27 Alundra.cue`

% ls -la /Volumes/XStation/Parodius total 1021952 drwxrwxrwx 1 user group 131072 10 Feb 20:13 . drwxrwxrwx 1 user group 131072 1 Jan 1980 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 522741408 24 Dec 1996 Parodius.bin -rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 74 16 Feb 12:04 Parodius.cue

% md5 /Volumes/XStation/Parodius/* MD5 (/Volumes/XStation/Parodius/Parodius.bin) = 6876275f34e437a99d1bc07d176dcd38 MD5 (/Volumes/XStation/Parodius/Parodius.cue) = b535f3c15fca83335c74334fa64295fe

% md5 /Volumes/XStation/Alundra/* MD5 (/Volumes/XStation/Alundra/Alundra.bin) = ff911668c363132913f5d06f31780340 MD5 (/Volumes/XStation/Alundra/Alundra.cue) = 45292873c556298fecab5e0b73365c6a

[ramapcsx2]

Hey, I'm sorry there's issues. Let's try to find out what goes wrong :)

So the file scanner totally ignores .cue files. Anything about them doesn't matter. The scanner iterates over all directories and adds all .bin files by extension. That's all it does (hence the scan speed).

What can go wrong though is those awful MacOS metadata folders and files. I try to skip those that I know of, but every now and then, there seems to be a new edge case.

I think you'll find that if you were to clean the SD card and copy your games using Windows, it would work. As an alternative, maybe there is something you can change on your Mac that fixes the metadata creation. Simply not hiding metadata files, so you can manually delete them, should also work.

[ramapcsx2]

It would also be best if you could undo all the file renaming, as there's some risk that it's not to expected standards.

[jandal55]

Hi Rama - Thanks for the quick reply. This context on how the list populates is useful - i saw another closed ticket that said it does some filtering based on parenthesis and was worried.

Your suggestion helped me to solve the issue though:

1) I disabled indexing on mac but that didnt really help me. 2) Inserted the SD into a PC 3) Noted that MacOS creates folders which CANT be delete in MacOS -.fseventsd, .Spotlight-V100 and .Trashes - and deleted these in windows (this likely clears up a minor issue in folder view where a "?" empty folder is displayed) 4) Deleted any .DSStore files - there were about 3 of these 5) Searched for all . named files and deleted them - there were about 6 of these - 2 in game folders (including parodius) but i think more pertinently, there were some created for ._games.txt ._gamescache.txt ._history.txt ._config.txt

After the above steps, all games are showing up correctly, and i get the same game count in folder and non-folder view. Thankfully i didnt need to re-format or re-transfer games. Hoping the above steps can help you with any filtering x-station might do - if you want me to go back and break it to determine which exact step fixed the issue, just let me know - my suspicion is step 3 or the 4 files in step 5. Still unsure of the difference between Alundra and other games that didnt show up but also didnt contain ._ files in the game folders - but i suspect that the ._games/._gamescache contain some legacy info that just stops the list from updating properly maybe

[ramapcsx2]

Cheers :) The file walker probably cancels out in one of these metadata folders, for one reason or another. When it didn't find any more files or folders, that top level folder "is done". It's just one big headache with Apples metadata files on external storage media..