Syncing Yuzu save files

[KaraTurtle She/Her]

I have found a solution to my problem, its at the bottom of my post. Saving in case it helps others.

TLDR: those of you who sync yuzu saves between your Deck and your PC, how do you do it?

I have Yuzu installed on my Deck and my desktop. On the desktop, i have save files for my games, and while I can simply drag them over to the Deck via flash drive, I want to use Syncthing, which I've already used on my phone and my laptop for syncing my save files. This way if I play on my desktop the saves will transfer to my Deck automatically.
However, Syncthing, no matter what I do in Flatseal, will never detect another flatpak. I go to .var/app/whatever and I can access only syncthing's own directory. I've tried using symlinks, but Syncthing refuses to even go through those.
Ironically, one of the best features of flatpak is being the biggest headache of flatpak.

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To make syncthing able to sync files like Minecraft worlds and Yuzu saves, create a symlink in the program's folder so that the saves are put outside of ~/.var
To create symlinks, think with portals. Go into Desktop mode, and go to the directory above where the program saves in Dolphin, the file manager. Right click and hit "open terminal here" (or something like that). Move your saves to a directory in the home folder OTHER than .var, like in "~/yuzusaves/". Then, type:
"ln -s /path/to/where/you/sent/your/saves/ NameOfFolderWhereProgramSavesTo/"
This should end up with the program saving just as it normally does into its normal save folder, unaware that its actually saving wherever you want it to be.

I have done this to sync the nand for yuzu on my desktop and deck, so far so good.

[浪速菜狗]

Thank you for sharing! will try it

[Ashade]

Still helpful in 2024. Thank you my man!