How to Really Disable Cheats Updating In update_all? [Solved]

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Re: How to Really Disable Cheats Updating In update_all? [Solved]

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I read the thread, but I was asking if there is a way to run update_all that will keep all my existing cheats without having to do any renaming of folders prior.
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Re: How to Really Disable Cheats Updating In update_all? [Solved]

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Renaming the cheats folder is not really a solution, i agree!
It works, but when using the update_all skript ones a day than this is not really a great way to get rid of stressing the sd card.
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Re: How to Really Disable Cheats Updating In update_all? [Solved]

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You have to do it only once, just read the post I referred to. But I agree that it is a very elegant solution.
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Re: How to Really Disable Cheats Updating In update_all? [Solved]

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jca wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:42 pm It is what I thought but theypsilon "corrected" me: you only have to do it once.
"This is not true, after you have !cheats in the filter, you may put the Cheats folder there and it won't ever get removed."
i did exactly that and the cheats where removed...
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Re: How to Really Disable Cheats Updating In update_all? [Solved]

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neogeo81 wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 9:07 am
jca wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:42 pm It is what I thought but theypsilon "corrected" me: you only have to do it once.
"This is not true, after you have !cheats in the filter, you may put the Cheats folder there and it won't ever get removed."
i did exactly that and the cheats where removed...
You need to do this for that.
So, if you already have a Cheats folder and you'd like to keep it untouched, you may do the following 3 steps:
-1. Rename the Cheats something else.
-2. Add the negative filter "!cheats" to downloader.ini (see documentation for more details), and run downloader/update_all.
-3. Restore the original name of the Cheats folder.

That way, you won't have it updated nor removed ever again.
Cheats are now fixed on gamehacking.org so they take much less time to update. There is no much point in doing all of that anymore
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Re: How to Really Disable Cheats Updating In update_all? [Solved]

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edit: nevermind, this was to someone else and may not be true anymore.
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