Playlists disappeared

[MeTheJuggler]

After today's update on the steam deck, none of my playlists appear in RetroArch. I double checked the path and it's correct.
Luckily, the playlist files themselves still appear ok (I spent a lot of time customising them, it would have sucked to have it all wiped), but they just don't show up in RetroArch anymore.

[MeTheJuggler]

Digging deeper, it seems like RetroArch can no longer see my emulator directory on the base of my SD card. I have my roms and my playlists directories in that.

Not sure if this is a result of today's RetroArch update, or something else that changed on the steamdeck. I checked permissions, and as far as I can tell, that directory has the same permissions as the steamapps directory which it *can* see, so I don't think it should be a permissions issue (plus, it was fine yesterday)

[「Virtua Frostii」]

Same problem here. Cant seem to find a workaround either. Still working with Dolphin so it must be Retroarch.

[solarj]

Same. When i select load content all that shows up is the home directory and the directory retroarch is in. No other folders or drives show up.

[Gamblore]

Yea, /run/media/... seems no longer visible in RetroArch file browser the same way it is in desktop mode.

[UltiRaven]

Originally posted by Gamblore:

Yea, /run/media/... seems no longer visible in RetroArch file browser the same way it is in desktop mode.

I felt like I was going crazy since it worked yesterday lol. Wonder what happened.

[Rab Mac]

This is happening to me too.

My SD card has vanished and is inaccessible through Steam Retroarch.

[Rab Mac]

Originally posted by Rab Mac:

This is happening to me too.

My SD card has vanished and is inaccessible through Steam Retroarch.

^^^^^ On my Steam Deck.

Might have to watch out for the auto-updates :D

[MeTheJuggler]

Looks like they're aware of the issue, and it sounds like a purposeful change:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/14266

[「Virtua Frostii」]

That's pretty unfortunate.

[Rab Mac]

Cripes. Hopefully this'll get looked at soon.

Last night I just got everything synced between my Steam Deck and Desktop and finally started a Shinning Force fan translation.

Hey-ho. Worse things happen at sea. As long as the Retroarch team (community?) have an intent about external storage i am sure it will get looked at.

[Mats]

As a temporary workaround the launch options for RetroArch can be set to

STEAM_COMPAT_MOUNTS=/run/media/mmcblk0p1/ %command%

EDIT:
Steam Linux Runtime - Sniper has received a fix on the client_beta branch for this, you can find it under the tools category if you feel adventurous enough to use it.

[frost]

@Mats I am on PC and this does not work. My drive is mounted at run/media/whatever/data/.
What do I do now?
Retroarch doesn't recognise ANY of the folders I created in data/emulation/retroarch anymore!

[UltiRaven]

Originally posted by Mats:

As a temporary workaround the launch options for RetroArch can be set to

STEAM_COMPAT_MOUNTS=/run/media/mmcblk0p1/ %command%

Thanks boss that was driving me nuts.

[frost]

I am an idiot.. had a typeo.. My bad

[Mats]

Originally posted by crooked:

@Mats I am on PC and this does not work. My drive is mounted at run/media/whatever/data/.
What do I do now?
Retroarch doesn't recognise ANY of the folders I created in data/emulation/retroarch anymore!

Do the same but change the STEAM_COMPAT_MOUNTS environment variable to point at the mountpoint for that drive.

It is column delimited in case you have multiple drives.