Delete unused images and videos

You can delete unused (orphaned) images and videos in your gamelist.xml, i.e. images and videos not associated with a ROM in gamelist.xml. Orphaned images and videos may exist when you delete Roms for example.

For the Delete unused photos and videos button to work correctly, the paths declared in the “Folders” tab must be the same as those declared in the gamelist.

Example: if you have an image in your gamelist with this path:

<image>./media/images/10yard-mix.png</image>

if you have declared this path as 'image folder' in the Folders tab :

download_images

When you click on the Delete unused photos and videos button, the image ./downloaded_images/10yard-mix.png will be deleted, because it cannot find a match in the gamelist.

ARRM will search the game list for the following image:

./downloaded_images/10yard-mix.png

But it can't find it because in this example the image in the gamelist is:

./media/images/10yard-mix.png

and so he will erase it.

For the delete unused images and videos function to work correctly, it is necessary that the wheelround suffix is not empty. Likewise, to prevent additional maps from being deleted, it is advisable to put a suffix for map

Here are the steps to follow :

Select the system (only one) then click on Display

You can apply this button to multiple systems by clicking on the systems of your choice. Be careful and please test on a single system to see if it works properly before performing this action on multiple systems.

Check in the 'Folders' tab that the image and video paths are correct and correspond to the media path in the gamelist.

For the delete unused images and videos function to work correctly, it is necessary that the wheelround suffix is not empty. Likewise, to prevent additional maps from being deleted, it is advisable to put a suffix for map

When the Database is filled with the found Roms, go to the 'Selected systems' tab and click on the 'Delete unused images and videos' button