Images for the roms suddenly stopped showing

Bonjour!
I turned on Retrobat and all the images for some collections were gone, (along with the favorite selections.) Some collections like the Megadrive are still there, but the mame set are all gone, I'm just left with the grey cartridge logo for each game. The games still play, and I looked in the mame folder and I still have the image folder and all the pictures are still there.

I have searched the FAQ and Googled the problem but have not found this specific problem.

If you can help thanks.

Hello

It will be hard to know how can we solve if we don't know what happen. Changes doesn't apply themselves alone.
Have a look at the gamelist and check if the path is correct, and lead to the picture.
You can also check if the option "search for local arts" in developper option.

If nothing works, add some screens that we can understand what's wrong

Thank you for the reply,
All the problems I have had with Retrobat seem to happen themselves.
I have my build on a separate hard drive which I leave permanently  connected to the pc usb drive. The first problem was all my favorites vanished on the next turn on. I asked for advise here, but never found a solution. So I did a reinstall.
I use two separate windows pc's and have changed to a new hard drive.

Thanks for your suggestion I will go and give then a try and report back.

Yep, try also to test your hdd, we never know...
with a soft like CrystalDiskInfo, or another one.

Hi
Enabled "search for local art" but that hasn't changed anything.
I've searched for "gamelist" in the rertobat folder, and there are many. The only one that is linked to mame, just contains details for one game.
Could you tell me which "gamelist" to explore,  and what screenshot would be helpful in a diagnosis?

I have a back up of my whole Retrobat set up, is there a file I could copy and paste over?

Thanks again for your time.

Paul

There should be one "gamelist.xml" file per system. It's in this document that are store the information about a game, and all medias which is associated to it.
For mame, if there is no information about the medias... they can't be displayed.

Just in case your following for a fix.
Unfortunately I never found a fix, instead I just reinstalled a new copy of Retrobat.