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boppreh / steamgrid

Downloads images to fill your Steam grid view
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Steamgrid processes one game then fails on Linux #15

Closed GermainZ closed 8 years ago

GermainZ commented 8 years ago

The following error is shown:

An unexpected error occurred:

open /home/germain/ (original).local/share/Steam/userdata/37118191/config/grid/241910.jpg: no such file or directory

/home/germain/.local/share/Steam/userdata/37118191/config/grid/241910.jpg is successfully created, but steamgrid seems to be checking /home/germain/(original).local/share/… instead.

boppreh commented 8 years ago

Oh, I see the problem. Before it created the file it tried to backup the previous image by adding (original) at the end of the filename, but added it to the wrong location because of this stupid line.

Totally my fault, rookie string manipulation mistake. I've already committed the fix, but unfortunately releasing a new version may take a couple of days (the pesky UI library I used got abandoned).

In the meantime, you can avoid such errors by cleaning the /home/germain/.local/share/Steam/userdata/37118191/config/grid/ folder manually before running the program (and optionally backing up those images, if there's any image you put there yourself). This bypasses the backup process and thus this bug.

Sorry for this mistake, and thanks a lot for reporting it.

GermainZ commented 8 years ago

No rush. Clearing the Steam/…/config/grid/ has no effect, though -- steamgrid still fails after the first image it downloads, while trying to back it up (presumably before applying the overlay?). Cheers.

GermainZ commented 8 years ago

An easy workaround is to create a symbolic link to the Steam directory (such that its path contains no dots), then passing that as an argument to steamgrid.

Gameranand commented 8 years ago

How do I create a symbolic link to steam directory. I am noob in linux.

boppreh commented 8 years ago

Hi Gameranand. Answered the question in the other issue you opened. Hope that helps.

boppreh commented 8 years ago

Path handling code has been overhauled, fixing this and other similar bugs.

I can't reproduce the problem, but please reopen the issue if it persists.