CFG Magician Problem

[GoTheBunnies]

Attempting to use CFG Magician to change my cocktail dipswitch - here's what I've done -

- Used RomLister to identify the cocktail/vertical games - it's found 472 of them. Created a new XML list.

- Pointed CFG Magician to the list of these games - it sees them no problem

- Pointed CFG Magician to my existing Mame/cfg folder (there's only 190 files in this folder - I assume because a CFG file is only created if you change the setting in an individual game?)

Anyway, here's where the problem starts - when I run it, it doesn't find any existing CFG files - the Excel exception file lists all of my 472 starting games as 'CFG not found'. Ok, I thought, I'll point it to the CFG file list that comes with CFG Magician. Same result - it says it's not finding any of the files. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[GoTheBunnies]

I've made some good progress with this - I've got CFG Magician to change the dipswitch settings, and create a bunch of new CFG files. So far, so good - but even though I move the newly created CFG files into my MAME/cfg folder, when I go into the game and check the settings, the Dipswitch has not been changed (even though I can see in the new CFG file that it HAS been changed). When I exit the game, the CFG file has been overwritten.

I must be missing a simple step? Anyone had a similar issue?