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XargonWan / RetroDECK

RetroDECK brings you an all-in-one sandboxed application to play your retro games (and even not-so-retro games) on Linux/SteamOS.
https://retrodeck.net
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[Multi user] Feature Request - More Robust symlink handling for Cemu #606

Open Nitrousoxide opened 7 months ago

Nitrousoxide commented 7 months ago

Right now Cemu creates a symlink in ~/retrodeck/bios/cemu/usr/save to point to the ~/retrodeck/saves/wiiu/cemu directory

While this is fine for a single user/device setup, if the user attempts to do any cross-device syncing and the two devices do not have identically named users, the symlink will break and Cemu will fail to start up on the second (or later) device.

A workaround for this is to completely delete the symlink under ~/retrodeck/bios/cemu/usr/save and recreate it as a real directory. This will avoid invalid symlink paths, though does expose the saves to possibly being blown out with an emulator reset and leaves the saves in a non-standard path for the other emulators with the possibility of the user forgetting to back them up if they are moving devices.

Better handling of this symlink (possibly through the use of environment variables), or pointing Cemu directly to the ~/retrodeck/saves/wiiu/cemu path rather than through a symlink might solve this, but I'm expert on how to best handle this.

XargonWan commented 5 months ago

I think that this should be handed by considering the multi user support.