DuplicateHider - Hide Duplicate Game Copies

[Gerdoner]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything on it on the previous pages.
I disabled your extension, but the hidden games don't reappear in my Library. Even after uninstalling the extention and re-syncing my library. How can i make my duplicate games reappear?

[felixkmh]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything on it on the previous pages.
I disabled your extension, but the hidden games don't reappear in my Library. Even after uninstalling the extention and re-syncing my library. How can i make my duplicate games reappear?

DuplicateHider has a main menu function that reveals all hidden duplicates. 
Alternatively, you can open up the filter panel and disable all filters except the "Hidden" filter. Then you can click on a game and hit Ctrl+a, to select all games. Then right click any game and click on "Don't hide this game" or something along those lines.

[Gerdoner]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything on it on the previous pages.
I disabled your extension, but the hidden games don't reappear in my Library. Even after uninstalling the extention and re-syncing my library. How can i make my duplicate games reappear?

DuplicateHider has a main menu function that reveals all hidden duplicates. 
Alternatively, you can open up the filter panel and disable all filters except the "Hidden" filter. Then you can click on a game and hit Ctrl+a, to select all games. Then right click any game and click on "Don't hide this game" or something along those lines.

D'oh, now I feel stupid that I didn't see that for myself. Normally I don't have the filters menu open, so I didn't see that all the games were marked as hidden. Obviously, with the name of the extension in mind it makes sense. As I said, that was pretty stupid of me

But thx for the quick reply

[billybruiser]

I had a question suggestion. Would it be possible to integrate a dlc check into this plugin?

For example, I may by default want to have Steam be selected as the store that's hidden, but if I own the dlc for a game on Steam, I'd rather another store's version be hidden.

Love the plugin by the way. It keeps my library pretty.

[DrinkFromTheCup]

For the Truth's sake, an option to keep installed variant on top (and the rest hidden) worked for me just fine. The rest can be sorted out with DLC checker just right.
Such extra enforcement of game variant's availability might cause unnecessary complications when managing games which have different sets of DLCs at different stores (assuming that we can grab all DLCs from all stores - let's say, EGS fumbles with defining clearly, what's a game and what's a DLC. My Civ VI copy is a hot mess because of that...)
Cases where different store variants can have DLCs shared with each other but we want only particular store variant to use (i. e. most Paradox's strategies, some GOG based titles, Rocket League, Dead by Daylight) complicate it further...
P. S. I never thought that I want store icons on game cards - but this plugin opened my eyes... Who knows, maybe it'll gonna be the case for DLC based hiding.

[profucius1]

Would it be possible to add more options to the dialog box "Copy Info to other Copies" ? Specifically options like "Last Played", "Time Played", "Play Count", "Date Added", "Completion Status", etc on the Advanced tab of the edit window.

I use this feature for transferring data between duplicates before I delete the unnecessary one, so having the above options would be a huge time saver for me. Thanks

[TheDarkSpock]

Thank you so much for this addon! It's fantastic, but I do have some questions about whether I can currently do some things or if these things could ever be implemented?

1. Is it possible to assign custom icons for either ROM files or Emulators? This way I can combine entries for a Genesis version and a SNES version or a GBA version and easily tell them apart?

2. Is there a list of known Themes that the UI for Duplicate Hider works with? It didn't seem to work with the standard theme, so I downloaded the DH_Theme but wasn't sure if there were other options as well?

3. Since X cloud games are always considered "Installed" they always override priority, is there a way to get around that, if needed?

[felixkmh]

Thank you so much for this addon! It's fantastic, but I do have some questions about whether I can currently do some things or if these things could ever be implemented?

1. Is it possible to assign custom icons for either ROM files or Emulators? This way I can combine entries for a Genesis version and a SNES version or a GBA version and easily tell them apart?

2. Is there a list of known Themes that the UI for Duplicate Hider works with? It didn't seem to work with the standard theme, so I downloaded the DH_Theme but wasn't sure if there were other options as well?

3. Since X cloud games are always considered "Installed" they always override priority, is there a way to get around that, if needed?

1. There is no way to assign icons to rom files or emulators. However, it is possible to assign your own icons to each platform. DH can use the icons assigned to platforms in the Library Management window (Ctrl+W) as a fallback if there is no source/library icon available. After changing a platform icon, Playnite needs to be restarted in order for DH to pick up on these changes.

2. Not that I know of. But DH_Night is far from being the only one. The ones I know of: DefaultExtent, eMixedNite, eMixedNiteMC, Grid View Cards, Harmony, Helium, Magpie GBV (Extended), Stardust all have some integration with DH.

3. There is currently no way to automatically set a certain platform to a lower priority. But you can assign [DH] High/Low tags to overwrite priorites for games individually. So you could add the [DH] Low tag to all XCloud games, which would put them at the last position.

[Gerdoner]

Would it be possible to add more options to the dialog box "Copy Info to other Copies" ? Specifically options like "Last Played", "Time Played", "Play Count", "Date Added", "Completion Status", etc on the Advanced tab of the edit window.

I use this feature for transferring data between duplicates before I delete the unnecessary one, so having the above options would be a huge time saver for me. Thanks

Second this request. I'd like to keep playtime, descriptions etc seperated from each entry, but would love to transfer the User rating across multiple libraries.

[sgtsars]

With the newest update 3.10.0 it appears that my custom group order is no longer being used. I deleted all priorities in the "common" tab and still while my custom groups are in fact grouped together, they aren't keeping the order I specified even when "keep order" is checked.

Update: Thanks for the quick fix!

[Mellified]

3.10.2 seems to cause my Playnite to be unresponsive for a couple of minutes at startup. It also makes Playnite very sluggish changing filters and other common actions. I definitely have a larger library - over 10K items, all of which DuplicateHider is checking. Seems like these priority changes need some optimization.

I'm also seeing random crashes.

EDIT: Rolled back to 3.9 and all is well.

[felixkmh]

3.10.2 seems to cause my Playnite to be unresponsive for a couple of minutes at startup. It also makes Playnite very sluggish changing filters and other common actions. I definitely have a larger library - over 10K items, all of which DuplicateHider is checking. Seems like these priority changes need some optimization.

I'm also seeing random crashes.

EDIT: Rolled back to 3.9 and all is well.

If you get crashes caused by DuplicateHider I need additional information, preferably the playnite.log file containing the error that occurred. Otherwise it gets very difficult to track down the source of the crash.

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Also, a large number of games shouldn't be a problem in general with regards to the new priority system. This only comes into play in case duplicates were identified. How many duplicates are in your library? You can check by revealing and then hide duplicates using the main menu functions. This will display the number of hidden/revealed duplicates.

[Mellified]

Also, a large number of games shouldn't be a problem in general with regards to the new priority system. This only comes into play in case duplicates were identified. How many duplicates are in your library? You can check by revealing and then hide duplicates using the main menu functions. This will display the number of hidden/revealed duplicates.

I'll grab the crash logs if it happens again.

Duplicate hider is hiding 3,665 games.

   

EDIT: I tested with 3.10.3 - I don't see Duplicate Hider doing anything. My theme isn't showing multiple icons per game, and a new game with the same name added to the database isn't grouped.

[Mellified]

3.10.5 seems much happier. Performance is much better and duplicates are being handled as they were in 3.9.

[sgtsars]

Just a heads up, updating from 3.11 to 3.11.1 seems to have completely reset the addon to default settings, including removing all custom groups. Games that were part of custom groups are still labeled as hidden but none of the games that have duplicates are showing up as selectable from the non-hidden game. Like the "other copies" or whatever it said on the drop-down/right-click menu isn't present at all anymore, so the only way to see duplicate games is the old fashioned way of making hidden games visible.

Update: It looks like re-creating a custom group creates the group but doesn't hide any of the games added. Addon is essentially not functioning.

Update 2 (Sorry): Reverted to 3.9.0 and behavior remains the same. I tried disabling all other addons and no change. It seems that something has broken this addon regardless of version

[felixkmh]

Just a heads up, updating from 3.11 to 3.11.1 seems to have completely reset the addon to default settings, including removing all custom groups. Games that were part of custom groups are still labeled as hidden but none of the games that have duplicates are showing up as selectable from the non-hidden game. Like the "other copies" or whatever it said on the drop-down/right-click menu isn't present at all anymore, so the only way to see duplicate games is the old fashioned way of making hidden games visible.

Update: It looks like re-creating a custom group creates the group but doesn't hide any of the games added. Addon is essentially not functioning.

I can't say why the settings were reset, but showing other copies in the game context menu and automatically hiding duplicates are both disabled by default. So if the settings were reset, these options would have been returned to that value. Can you check if those options are in fact disabled and whether enabling them resolves your issues?

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Also, if you are using a custom theme, chances are that it supports DuplicateHider's UI integration (which is also disabled by default. Can be enabled in the settings under the UI Integration tab). This gives you very easy access to duplicates without the need to enable the Hidden filter.

[sgtsars]

Just a heads up, updating from 3.11 to 3.11.1 seems to have completely reset the addon to default settings, including removing all custom groups. Games that were part of custom groups are still labeled as hidden but none of the games that have duplicates are showing up as selectable from the non-hidden game. Like the "other copies" or whatever it said on the drop-down/right-click menu isn't present at all anymore, so the only way to see duplicate games is the old fashioned way of making hidden games visible.

Update: It looks like re-creating a custom group creates the group but doesn't hide any of the games added. Addon is essentially not functioning.

I can't say why the settings were reset, but showing other copies in the game context menu and automatically hiding duplicates are both disabled by default. So if the settings were reset, these options would have been returned to that value. Can you check if those options are in fact disabled and whether enabling them resolves your issues?

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Also, if you are using a custom theme, chances are that it supports DuplicateHider's UI integration (which is also disabled by default. Can be enabled in the settings under the UI Integration tab). This gives you very easy access to duplicates without the need to enable the Hidden filter.

I'm finding that it's not just this addon that had settings reset to default, looks like I'm having a bigger issue with Playnite addons in general.

Changing those options fixed my issues, thank you for pointing that out. I'd love to know what caused what appears to be all my addon settings to revert.

[Mellified]

Currently if there's a Playnite-defined icon for a source it is preferred over the user-defined platform icon.

For example, I can define icons for both the "Oculus Rift" and "Oculus Quest" platforms in Playnite's Library Manager. These are used by DuplicateHider because there's no default Source icon for the Oculus.

However, the Nintendo library importer plugin has a default "Nintendo" icon. Even if I define separate icons for the Switch and WiiU, DuplicateHider ignores these in favor of the library icon.

I can override this by placing a different icon in the DuplicateHider "source_icons" folder - but this changes the icon for all platforms using the same source.

Ideally, since platforms are more specific than sources DuplicateHider should prefer the Platform icon over the Source icon.

[El_Syd]

I have noticed that I cannot install DuplicateHider for the past week or so. I also tried installing the portable version of Playnite, but I get the same result. It doesn't seem to happen with other extensions. Is there another way I can install the latest version of DuplicateHider?

[felixkmh]

I have noticed that I cannot install DuplicateHider for the past week or so. I also tried installing the portable version of Playnite, but I get the same result. It doesn't seem to happen with other extensions. Is there another way I can install the latest version of DuplicateHider?

Try removing that 'Localization' folder that the error points to, while Playnite is not running. After that, try installing again.