> Am I understanding your concern correctly?
yep. Because I use a NAS as a single repository and access it using a couple different computers (saves me disk space, gives me redundancy, and keeps me from having to manage multiple instances) it is VERY slow to rescan. After I made my last filter change last night I'd estimate it took 3 to 4 hours for a rescan. Today I turned on my PC, started MAME Classic again and it started to rescan again as if it had never done it before. With IV/Play it assumes you have everything and shows everything immediately. If you click on a game that you don't have ROMS for it just gives you an error that it can't find the ROMS and you're back in business.
So if there was a setting in a future version of MAME Classic were to assume you have everything and you were to filter some choices out, it just needs to filter them from the available list, not do a rescan.
I'm sure I'm the outlier in this situation as most people just have all of their ROMS on the HD with their MAME installation.
Thanks!
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