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This might be a stupid question. But can you have a general import folder were you just dump a rom and the app IDs it and moves it to the correct system folder?

I have this installed on my unRAID instance and haven't yet figured this out..

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That's not possible (yet), you can upload a ROM from the web UI (button in the navbar) but you need to select the platform it belongs to. When we implement hash-based matching with Hasheous (https://hasheous.org/) you'll be able to upload a bunch of ROMs, or throw them into an import folder, and the ones that are detected correctly will be moved to the "right" platform folders.

I use igir for this. It's a bit of work to setup though.

(Pro tip: Use the {datName} template token instead of --dir-dat-name if you use clean with single DAT files, or the "only delete from folders we touched" rule doesn't apply, learned the hard way).

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