scraper "can't find any systems"

[Thomas Kings]

I used the scraper, scraping from screenscraper, I selected all systems,
when it starts scraping it takes almost an hour to go through all my games.
After that I'm getting the message that no systems could be found??

I have my roms all correctly stored in the folders, almost all of them are packed as zip files to save space, does this matter?

[Thomas Kings]

Ok it works using gamesdb, but its very slow, I let it run all night and its still not finished.

[lackyluuk]

You can try the standalone software "Universal XML Scraper": https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/3415/tool-universal-xml-scraper-deutsch instead.

[Thomas Kings]

I tried using that, but for some systems Recalbox resets the gamelist.xml and removes all the games or majority of them...
Why?

[Pepe]

@Thomas-Kings You must to close emulationstation before scrap with external tool, or kill -9 emulationstation process once scrap done, or perhaps works too, fast restart without save metada once scrap done. Otherwise emulationstation overwrite gamelist.xml when you shutdown or restart normally.