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issue with installation directories on external hard drives

A topic by Roxy8Sakamoto created Jul 20, 2024 Views: 147 Replies: 3

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I switched to Linux mint and I tried using my external hard drive for installation directories. It finds the games in the directories, but then the directories change from the actual ones to something like:
/run/user/1000/doc/4188ff70
/run/user/1000/doc/7c5f21df
/run/user/1000/doc/c6037f0
These directories don't exist on my device, they should not be made on my device and even though the launcher can find the games in the actual places, it still uses the changed directories to access the games, leading to no execution or updates.
On windows, i was able to use these directories with the directory paths staying consistent for the launcher.
How can this issue be resolve?

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Roxy8Sakamoto144 days ago

Oki, a tutorial on how to do it with steam helped and the solution was to:
go to /etc
edit the fstab file
change for the line where UUID=<UUID of the Hard drive> the options so that it has rw,users,exec (no blanks in between collons) (,auto if you want it to be mounted on the mount point when PC gets booted)

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redonihunter144 days ago

Is this about the itch app?

It's been a while, but the solution would have been to first ensure that the removable drive gets mounted at the same mount point everytime or that a link reliably points to the drive. If you have some id of the drive in the fstab, that should do the trick.

It finds the games in the directories, but then the directories change from the actual ones to something like

If it finds the games after removing and replugging the drive, what exactly was the problem? Those locations might be the temporary mount points that get referenced to by a changing sym link. Or was the app told those temp locations and it failed because of this?

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Roxy8Sakamoto144 days ago (2 edits)

so turns out, another part of my problem was the xdg-desktop-portal that caused the thing with changed directories. i downloaded the launcher via the application manager and it was via flathub. so there was some protection layer between the launcher and the directories automatically.
apparently it was less an issue with the launcher but i guess an issue with another programm. i reinstalled it over the setup on itch.io now.

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