Playnite Bug - Adding covers to games

OneAngryGamer · 10-31-2021, 09:06 PM

How to replicate issue:
Import a cover for a game from a local file. Repeat with a different image. The library files folder now contains both images (the current cover art and the previous cover art)

Seen occur in several versions of Playnite up to (and including) Playnite 8.15

I wrote an extension which checks the files in the Playnite library against the current cover/background/icon images for every game and platform and moves all unlinked files to another location. I was surprised how many dead images the extension found.

**Crow** · 11-01-2021, 07:23 AM

"Import a cover" how? Using what method? Bulk metadata download or manually while editing a game?

OneAngryGamer · 11-01-2021, 11:06 PM

(11-01-2021, 07:23 AM)Crow Wrote: "Import a cover" how? Using what method? Bulk metadata download or manually while editing a game?

"from a local file" In other words, edit the game and manually import the cover art from a file on local storage.

While the old image isn't visible from the Playnite frontend (being now unlinked), it adds unnecessary bloat to the database location.

I can always run my extension to clean these up but I thought you may want to know.

**Crow** · 11-02-2021, 06:27 AM

Old file should definitely be removed, it's probably some regression bug in P9, I'll look into it.

**Crow** · 11-02-2021, 10:08 AM

I can't reproduce it, can you please provide exacts steps how to reproduce this?

OneAngryGamer · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2021, 10:57 AM by OneAngryGamer.)

I tried testing this a few minutes ago and the error didn't occur. As I can't replicate the error on demand, I'll have to assume the problem is fixed. If it ever happens again, I will let you know.

(I also ran my tool to see if any images were broken. It only found two images that weren't linked.)(UPDATE: I uploaded the extension here I was running the last test.)