MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Stupid newb question time

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> > I wish they stop using folders on the CHDs. Really is silly. Folders aren't zips.
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> > I still have those. lol
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> What? That part actually is explained in the FAQ. A CHD is already compressed. To zip
> a CHD is silly. You'd be extracting the entire CHD to memory, then extracting the
> part of the CHD that needed to be read. The folder is there so you don't have random
> chd files scattered around the roms folder, having to jump through hoops to figure
> out which chd went to which game (or if not, it's a happy side effect).

Just saying sometimes the cmpro make copies of the CHDs and can't moved them into correct folders. cmpro sure can remove the bad ones without a problem. I had to move all out of those folders into ROM's folder and then run the cmpro again so it can move those into the correct place. Now you see my point. It happen every once a while.

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