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etabeta
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Re: Problem with WarGods chd?
06/06/12 07:25 AM


> > I would suggest that this is a case where there's no reason MAME shouldn't just do
> > the right thing: if there's any kind of non-filesystem related reason a diff chd
> > doesn't open (version mismatch, damaged header, whatever), delete it and create a
> new
> > one. Obviously if some error comes back from the underlying OS (bad path or I/O
> error
> > or whatever) then you'd show a message and halt.
>
> It doesn't do that because you may want to keep/upgrade the contents of the DIFF.
> There may be high scores or other data you want kept, so just deleting it isn't a
> viable option. And renaming + silently upgrading it isn't great either because you
> won't know what happened or why changes you made are suddenly gone.

is there any way to upgrade the contents of the diff?







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Problem with WarGods chd? mesk 06/05/12 04:50 PM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? TafoidAdministrator  06/05/12 05:00 PM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? mesk  06/05/12 05:16 PM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? B2K24  06/05/12 06:28 PM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? etabeta  06/05/12 06:27 PM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? R. Belmont  06/05/12 11:33 PM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? AaronGiles  06/06/12 12:03 AM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? etabeta  06/06/12 07:25 AM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? R. Belmont  06/06/12 04:59 PM
. * Re: Problem with WarGods chd? AaronGiles  06/06/12 11:23 PM

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