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tralph3 / Steam-Metadata-Editor

An easy to use GUI that edits the metadata of your Steam Apps
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Unable to find config files in flatpak installation (Steam Deck) #33

Closed olee closed 1 year ago

olee commented 1 year ago

Hi, I tried running the flatpak installation for this app on the steam deck, however I cannot find out where this app saves the config files to make the changes I need. I checked in ./local/share/Steam-Metadata-Editor, but the directory does not even exist and I was not able to find any other location where it could be.

tralph3 commented 1 year ago

Flatpak creates an environment in ~/.var/app/io.github.tralph3.Steam_Metadata_Editor but I can't find the modifications json there...

I have deleted the folder in ~/.local/share, re-run SME with flatpak, made some modifications, and sure enough, there's no folder in ~/.local/share, so it's storing them somewhere else.

I ran updatedb and then locate to try and find it, but it couldn't. So I must assume it's not stored with the regular name, it must be encrypted in some way.

If anyone knows how flatpak manages these things, please let me know, I'm kinda puzzled about it.

EDIT: Do note that the modifications are persisting, so the file is stored somewhere, somehow.

olee commented 1 year ago

I found the solution: I used Flatseal to adjust the permissions of the application to include ~/.local/share/Steam-Metadata-Editor as allowed file access location and then it worked! Seems like whoever setup the configuration here didn't add this path to the config.

tralph3 commented 1 year ago

My bad! I have updated the manifest to allow access to that folder. This shouldn't be an issue anymore.