Ah yes, that's exactly what my own bash script does, it first deletes the old manifest file, and then runs update. So I guess I don't see this problem then. Yes it does take a long time to recreate the whole manifest file (I recall something like 10 hours for me right now, for over 1300 games), but that's just waiting, it usually runs on a separate PC, a dedicated old Linux laptop. I might run my script on e.g. Saturday evening, and then check sometime on Sunday if everything is nice and tidy.

I think it already does? At least for me the script has worked fine on Windows 7 where I installed only Python 3.5.

K, thanks. I was afraid it only worked on 2.x as I have 3.x on my 7 as well. :-)

As an aside, there's no problem having multiple Pythons installed.
Just don't let your "extras" put themselves in your path, then you can later do: "C:\Python27\python.exe gogrepo.py ..."

I just noticed that if you make a typo when you do a 'download -id xxxx' it instead goes through your entire manifest.

Fixed with latest commit.

That's fast.
It did sort of inform me I was missing a 10GB file by downloading it. :P

Using it down. So far very good and useful.


Thank you

@woolmethodman: Any chance you can add support to skip games that are hidden in your library?

Yep I can add that. Kalanyr also sent me some pull requests to add more filtering options.. but I need some time to review.

I keep getting timeouts :(

Trying to update Tyranny...

Any way to increase them? Ah, finally;

There was discussion about this before: have you been thinking about the ability to direct part(s) of the collection towards different paths, in case one's current partition isn't big enough for all the games?

I recall you implied you'd first make support for a separate config file (which makes sense) before adding it, so if it seems it'll take some time before this can be implemented, I might make a fork of your current work to add some quick and dirty way to channel part of my collection to a different path (like, titles starting with A => Q would be using path A, and everything else would use path B).

I would probably keep it as my personal fork as I would probably do it in some very quick and dirty way, just hardcoding something to the script, so I wouldn't feel comfortable contributing it to your work. But if you are already working on it (and have time to do it), I might just as well wait for the official implementation.

It is just that I think I think my GOG game collection (English Windows versions) has probably already surpassed the size of 2TB, which is the size of my current external USB HDD where I specifically keep my GOG installers. Hence, currently I can't really use gogrepo anymore to update or receive games. :)

So my options currently are:

1. Invest on a bigger hard drive (Nierle.de seems to be selling a 4TB 2.5" USB-powered HDD for less than 200€, that's not too bad, but still I'd need it only due to gogrepo...).

2. Make that change to gogrepo, and just extend my GOG game collection to another 2TB USB drive I have lying around unused. This would be my preferred choice at the moment.

So just if you don't think this request will materialize soon on the official gogrepo, I guess I could make that personal project fork. That would be a good way for me to revitalize my lowly python skills...

4TB for 200€?
Check WD Mybook HDDs on Amazon, they cost way less.

I said "less than 200€" because I didn't recall the exact price. Turns out it was 139.99€, so way less.

https://www.nierle.com/s01.php?shopid=s01&sp=en&cur=eur&ag=1&pp=aa&bnr=33658&news=2651_kw45&letterid=1913

If you have some much better deal on Amazon for a similar product, please point me to it (hopefully in chat, let's not derail this useful thread further). I usually don't even check Amazon as I've always felt they don't really deliver to Finland, but maybe that has changed. I guess it was back when I tried to buy some digital games from Amazon, but the pages always stated "only in US". Yes yes I know there is amazon.de, amazon.uk etc...

Eh I don't know sorry, I use Amazon.it and it's 130€ total there.
Btw, 2 years ago it was 145€ total, so it didn't go down a lot O_o
(end of OT.. :P)