Game List and Favorites changed with update

[emphatic]

When I installed 5.70, I had to do a "Update Game List" because all games beyond the letter B got lost from MAME. And my Favorites goes to B then only my Non-MAME favorites are showing. Anyone else experiencing this? I have tried reinstalling, and now I'm using the latest build, but still no return of my MAME favorites.

As AdvanceMAME updated to 104, I started to use it with my GameEx setup again if this has something to do with anything? I switched binary at the same time as installing GameEx 5.70. Before AdvanceMAME was released, I used Mame32+ 104.

I'm thinking that perhaps these builds use different ways of listing games? But them again, since this was a HUGE GameEx update, a bug might have crawled in.

Emph

[coffeeman]

This has also happened with me, though its the magic letter "S". Unfortunately those favourites are gone (post S). I haven't quite narrowed down what is causing this. (Its happened three times so far). My current thinking is it might be caused by a hard exit from Game-ex (ie Resetting your PC without a proper Game-ex exit).

I'd love to suggest that there's some separate form of recording/importing/exporting Favourites for moments like these... But I'm sure TS's time can be spent on more important things. Actually.. thinking about it I should put a donation thru, because this product rocks!!

[Tom Speirs]

This has also happened with me, though its the magic letter "S". Unfortunately those favourites are gone (post S). I haven't quite narrowed down what is causing this. (Its happened three times so far). My current thinking is it might be caused by a hard exit from Game-ex (ie Resetting your PC without a proper Game-ex exit).

I'd love to suggest that there's some separate form of recording/importing/exporting Favourites for moments like these... But  I'm sure TS's time can be spent on more important things. Actually.. thinking about it I should put a donation thru, because this product rocks!!

Yeah I am almost certain its caused by hard reset of GameEx. GameEx saves the MAME game list on exit, and if this file gets corrupted currently MAME favorites will be lost.

Sorry, Ill have a think what to do about it. For now just backup the data directory if youve spent hours adding favorites.