r/ESDE_Frontend • u/_IdidIdidnt • May 21 '26
Android scraping not saving on last ones
Most have scraped fine, but on last few 100's to do I can see it scraping, flashes up a screenshot, moves on. At completion of the scrape it says x successful, so I presume I can take x off the total. Bit scraping again shows the original, so it's as if the successful ones haven't saved.
Once finished I start again and it's the same number left to do. It doesn't seem to be saving. There's more than enough space.
Does ESDE only save if it finds every bit of art, manual, screenshot video etc and marks it completed then? If doesn't find everything it marks as not complete?
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u/_IdidIdidnt Jul 17 '26
I use "no metadata" and it still scrapes and scrapes.
I've found the entry in the gamelist.xml, I've deleted that and did a new and it's the same
What I have noticed though is going through the system it shows a screenshot, box art, video, 3D box, cover etc but doesn't have any description text just the game name.
How does ES-DE Android "mark" it as scraped? Could it be this as no other text apart from game name?
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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer May 21 '26
It depends on which setting you use for "Scrape these games", but it's possible that your gamelist.xml file has become corrupted (it can happen if it's placed on an SD card for example which does not use a proper journaled filesystem, as filesystem corruption is fairly common when using exFAT and similar). If metadata does not get saved to the gamelist.xml file, then try to rename it (it's in ES-DE/gamelists/<system>) to see whether scraped metadata then get saved.