protontricks doesn't have access to folders

[Feden]

It's been 3 months since I switched and I had to use protontricks. some of my games are on my hdd which is on /media/feden/Data/SteamLibrary when I try to run protontricks it says

 protontricks (WARNING): Steam library folder /media/feden/DATA/SteamLibrary not found. Protontricks might not have access to the directory. 

installed steam from the steam site with the deb file and protontricks via pipx. I'm on ZorinOS 16.1 and happy to share any more details.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

open the app store of Zorin and search for "flatseal"

protontricks is a flatpak, which is sandboxed from your system and only has very limited drive access.
Once you're in flatseal, go to the protontricks tab, scroll down to file permission or whatever it's called in your language and either give it full access, or just give it access to your secondary drive, in that directory the error spit out.

[Feden]

Originally posted by The Xenoblade guy:

open the app store of Zorin and search for "flatseal"

protontricks is a flatpak, which is sandboxed from your system and only has very limited drive access.
Once you're in flatseal, go to the protontricks tab, scroll down to file permission or whatever it's called in your language and either give it full access, or just give it access to your secondary drive, in that directory the error spit out.

it was the first thing i did. it didn't do anything

[PunkHazard]

Protontricks requires the game to run (and crash) at least once so that the game folder is created in the SteamLibrary. Have you tried that?

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Originally posted by Feden:

Originally posted by The Xenoblade guy:

open the app store of Zorin and search for "flatseal"

protontricks is a flatpak, which is sandboxed from your system and only has very limited drive access.
Once you're in flatseal, go to the protontricks tab, scroll down to file permission or whatever it's called in your language and either give it full access, or just give it access to your secondary drive, in that directory the error spit out.

it was the first thing i did. it didn't do anything

really?
What about just going all out and giving protontricks full drive access like it was a normal package?
And of course, start it once so that all the windows stuff gets installed.

[halifax]

I see "/media/.../SteamLibrary" that's usually a bad idea since strange access problems can crop up in addition to things like flatpacks needing permissions granted to other mount points. "/media/..." implies your distro handled mounting that partition automatically for you, and may have some settings you don't want.

I'd recommend making a permanent mount point and adding the proper /etc/fstab entry for your distro that grants access how you want. The most important thing will be getting the fstab entry options right for the access you want to that partition, "users,exec" are good option flags for clearing up access issues to a game data partition on a single user PC.

[Feden]

Originally posted by PunkHazard:

Protontricks requires the game to run (and crash) at least once so that the game folder is created in the SteamLibrary. Have you tried that?

played the game a lot thats not the issue

[Feden]

Originally posted by The Xenoblade guy:

Originally posted by Feden:

it was the first thing i did. it didn't do anything

really?
What about just going all out and giving protontricks full drive access like it was a normal package?
And of course, start it once so that all the windows stuff gets installed.

gave the access but what do I need to start? the game or the protontricks?

[Feden]

Originally posted by halifax:

I see "/media/.../SteamLibrary" that's usually a bad idea since strange access problems can crop up in addition to things like flatpacks needing permissions granted to other mount points. "/media/..." implies your distro handled mounting that partition automatically for you, and may have some settings you don't want.

I'd recommend making a permanent mount point and adding the proper /etc/fstab entry for your distro that grants access how you want. The most important thing will be getting the fstab entry options right for the access you want to that partition, "users,exec" are good option flags for clearing up access issues to a game data partition on a single user PC.

have another drive at the /mnt it doesnt have access to that either, The drive at media has been added to fstab file before all this

 /dev/disk/by-uuid/f01b17ee-a445-4b43-bfeb-68ab9f323e13 /media/feden/Data auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-udisks-auth 0 0 

is the entry in the fstab file

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Originally posted by Feden:

Originally posted by The Xenoblade guy:

really?
What about just going all out and giving protontricks full drive access like it was a normal package?
And of course, start it once so that all the windows stuff gets installed.

gave the access but what do I need to start? the game or the protontricks?

protontricks
Chaning the permissions won't change anything until you've restarted the flatpak.
I'd just double check and restart both steam and protontricks, just to make doube-sure that everything will work as intended

[Feden]

Originally posted by The Xenoblade guy:

Originally posted by Feden:

gave the access but what do I need to start? the game or the protontricks?

protontricks
Chaning the permissions won't change anything until you've restarted the flatpak.
I'd just double check and restart both steam and protontricks, just to make doube-sure that everything will work as intended

restarted the pc, no difference

[Enigmatic]

Mount your HDD using FSTAB. don't mount to media folder. that is for things you access through thunar only.

Longer term mounts you should do through root or Fstab to /mnt or whatever directory you choose.

I mounted my SSD to my steam directory. steam see's the drive for games but not my other drives.

Because it's a flatpack you have to mount it into the flatpack filesystem. They are made to be like containers.

[Malekar]

Originally posted by PunkHazard:

Protontricks requires the game to run (and crash) at least once so that the game folder is created in the SteamLibrary. Have you tried that?

running game one time was the key ty