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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0013099 | Dwarf Fortress | Technical -- Saving/Loading | public | 2025-02-12 20:47 | 2025-02-13 21:57 |
| Reporter | emerson | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | trivial | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Steam | OS | Linux | OS Version | Manjaro |
| Product Version | 51.04 | ||||
| Summary | 0013099: Game will not honor a symlink for the 'save' directory | ||||
| Description | This is a corner case, I know. I dual boot Linux and Windows. I have DF installed on each. As a poor man's Steam Cloud, what I want to do is symlink the 'save' directory, which lives on my Windows C: drive, into my Linux install, so that the savegames are transparently shared. This simply doesn't work. If the symlink is there, the Linux game acts like there is no 'save' directory, and offers to make a new world. I know I'm fiddling with the right place because if I -copy- the whole save directory over from the C: drive, same place, same name, same capitalization, everything, it works fine. So, df is somehow not correctly following / honoring a symlink for the 'save' directory. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1. Have a valid "save" folder somewhere off to the side. 2. Install DF in linux 3. "ln -s" the off-to-the-side save directory into the linux install's folder 4. Run the game -- no saves are there. 5. Bonus steps - 'rm' the symlink, 'cp -r' the off-to-the-side save directory into the right place. 6. Run the game -- save games are there. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
