Thanks, it is not a big deal for me as I can download it manually. The reason I made the post is for the following reasons:
When the downloader was first announced I was one of the first to use it and was horrified by all the stuff downloaded which was not the case with the old updater and not indicated anywhere. So I stopped using it and decided to wait and see. There as been updates to the downloader and the old updater has become aggressively nasty: when running update all it first asks you a gazillion times if you really want to use the old updater, a lot of the customization has disappeared from update all when using the old updater and to finish when the update all start it first starts an un-killable timer of 20s (really nice). I don't like sticks, I prefer carrots. Anyway, I decided to re-test the new downloader, but not on my main setup which I did not want to screw up. I used a new SD card and USB drive and started to collect incriminating evidence against this malfeasant downloader
. I already found a few things which I posted on the forum but so far no feedback. I guess I will have to file a complain on Github.
That said, the new downloader is much faster, does more checks using hashes, may be more customizable but complicated to use and lacking documentation.
Time will tell, for now I still did not finish to transfer all my roms to the new USB drive and have a lot more testing to do. I can always revert to the old updater, I have 9 months left and may be in 9 months we will have a healthy baby.
