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Larry Laffer (privacy@aol.com) 2019/03/27 16:32

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On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:14:38 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>A tip, since I think you get your update ROMs from the same place I do.
>
>When CMPro finishes it's business, there will be a whole bunch of zip
>files in the backup directory. Create a folder and unzip all of those
>files into the same folder, overwriting when it dupes.
>
>It's very easy to do this with WinRAR, just select them all, right drag,
>and select "extract here..." It will put all the roms into folder, only
>asking about dupes once before you select "overwrite all."
>
>You'll have a folder full of individual rom dumps. Select and drag all
>those files into the CMPro scan window that shows you which rom is
>missing. It will launch the rebuilder and grab any file from that folder
>which matches the missing rom, even if the filename has changed.
>
>Generally, this fixes any oddball missing roms on an update.
>
>I'll have your fix in a moment.

Thanks.  I looked in the backups and did a search to find the file but
my search didn't come up with a match.  I didn't think of running the
files through CMP to have it find the match, which it did.

I can post the missing keyboard file now as I have a 100% set.

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