Father_Redbeard @ Father_Redbeard @lemmy.ml

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ah geez, you can on mine too. I just didn't scroll down far enough. All I saw were the Samsung specific shortcuts!

Agreed, I'm on a Note10+ and I love that feature. I'd setting for being able to add 3rd party app shortcuts to the little side bar thing....not sure what that's called, but it pops up when you pull the S Pen out. That wouldn't replace the screen off function, but would be a step in the right direction.

No, unfortunately it did not. I cleared them out with steam closed on both my PC and the SD, then launched it. On PC it gave the following error:

I then copied the backed up saves back to the correct folder and launched it again. Still got the same error but selected "Play Anyway". Current game save loaded fine. Then create a new save and exited the game. Now back to the Cloud Sync error in Steam on PC. Steam Deck shows Steam Cloud: Up To Date but if I load the most recent save it's several behind the current. As in, current saves are just missing entirely.

Fair point, do you have any in mind?

You know what's great? I had toggled the cloud save off last night and actually had Syncthing running between the two. Works rather well. But today I toggled them back on, played a bit, and let it sync. Sure enough it worked! Good grief. If it acts up again I'll do as you suggested and wipe and start over with backed up saves. I did have an issue in Starfield where it would give the same error that it couldn't sync, yet it did. But I'm not touching that one for awhile. Either that sync mess or something else pooched my 20+hr save and it won't load. Nor will it load any save right now. Just crashes straight to desktop unless you start New Game. Oh well, got that one for 'free' with my PC build so not too worried about it other than I likely won't ever touch it again...

Thanks for the explanation on symlinks, that helps quite a bit!

EDIT: jokes on me, still doesn't work.

Ah beans, I did make a type. You are correct, it does have 1091500 in the path. Don't know how I missed that. Likely because I was connected via SSH and changing directory and apparently it only shows the current folder instead of the whole string like I'm accustomed to.

The correct path for SD is: /home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1091500/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Saved Games/CD Projekt Red/Cyberpunk 2077

Side note, and maybe a dumb question: How can you tell it's a symlink? I'm still very new to Linux but having a blast learning.

The game is installed on Pop!_OS, ext4 file system. Windows came, so proton has the save games in a weird spot. I did notice it's different than the location of steam deck.

Pop!_OS: ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1091500/pfx/drive_c/steamuser/Saved Games/CD Projekt Red/Cyberpunk 2077

Steam Deck: ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Saved Games/CD Projekt Red/Cyberpunk 2077

What's weird is that it synchronized at least some saves form early in the game. But now it is continually failing to sync. I fired up a few indie games just last night and those synchronized just fine. Fates of Ort and Void Scrapper, if it matters ;)

Same on the laptop and Unraid server actually, lol. But I don't run any VMs on it at all. Hardware is a bit old so I don't know how much it could run effectively.

I've heard that. Boy does it need it. But I'll admit I don't like that their focus seems to be on introducing new products instead of making their existing lineup more reliable/performant. And not making many strides in the Linux world.

I tried Proton, even paid for a year. But hot damn the Android app is garbage. So I've moved to Fastmail and I like it a lot. The app is snappy and I love that it has calendar, contacts, mail, notes, and files storage all in the same app. I used a custom domain with Proton so wasn't hard to switch to a different provider. Just wish I would've known how bad the mobile app was before I plunked down the money.

The steam deck inspired me to finally ditch Windows for good. I have dealt with it for the past 15+ years professional and I grew so damn tired of it. Built myself a nice little gaming PC running pop is and I'm quite pleased!

Yeah, that is very true. For some reason I had in my mind that they were all in vaguely the same place. But then remembered 2 of the 3 games I mentioned in my original post are Windows only so the proton layer adds yet another location to consider to the mix. I'll have to think on it more. I tend to focus on one of two games at a time until I'm done with them, so might not be too bad to sync just those titles then reconsider when another games strikes my fancy....

Won't hurt to try, eh? Damn saves aren't copying at all now, so its useless atm.

Yeah, that was the original idea. Peer to peer, which is Syncthing's selling point. I certainly could link my server into play as well just to keep an always online device in the mix. Though I never turn my PC off either :)

Similar happened to me. I've had a Gmail since the beta days and a fairly common name. I get sensitive documents sent to me, random order confirmation, even a flight confirmation that I signed into to try to find his phone number so I could text him. I'll admit I wanted so badly to cancel his flight. But I didn't. Texted him and told him he needs to reset his pwd. Just so careless.

I have a pi 3 running my primary instance of Adguard Home, a pi 4 I don't know yet what to do with, and a Pi B that has RISCOS on it for fun. Seriously, if you ever just want to poke around a unique OS, download the official RISCOS image in the Raspberry Pi imager. Any UK folks reading this know what I'm talking about. But as an American I'd never heard of it and it's just friggin' neat!

I have a HP Microserver Gen 8. And about 22 docker containers including Seafile running. I've read folks had good success with it on Rpi, but I haven't tried myself. I ought to spin one up on one I have that's not doing anything.

I'm a recent convert to Rclone. I've struggled with other CLI backup tools like Borg and Restic, but rclone is very approachable.

You don't need to put it back. Rclone mount is another "portal" to the seafile data, but fully assembled. It mounts to a folder you specify. Then you reach in and pull anything you might need if all of the seafile clients and web app are down.

They do have their own tool called Seafuse that will assemble the data as well, but I've not tried it since rclone works great and has a ton of support. It's fantastic.

The android app is so bad I just straight up stopped using them as a service. Very frustrating.

I mentioned rclone and its mount function as it's an alternate method of accessing Seafile's backend. So if Seafile clients and web interface are somehow inaccessible, you can use rclone mount to "reassemble" the chunked data and then recover or copy to another location as needed.

The best way I can describe the phone example is that each Seafille client is a portal to the data on the Seafile server. I have it setup like this:

• Documents - MBP (macbook pro)
• Documents - Note10Plus (my phone)
• Documents - Pop (primary desktop running Pop!_OS)

From my phone I can pull any data in any of the 3 libraries without needing to sync the entire thing to each device, which is what Syncthing wants to do by default. I understand there is an ignore function but from what I can tell you'd have to manually mark quite a few folders as such so you don't sync all data to each client.

One scenario I tested last night was using rclone mount on the server, which "un-chunks" the data back into whole, flat files and mounts it in a temporary folder. I then used rclone to copy it to a Backblaze B2 bucket. Which now has fully assembled flat files sitting as a backup in B2 storage. My thought is to script that function because damned if I can't seem to get database dumps to work properly when performing backups on pretty much any self hosted product that uses them. Still learning though.

That is probably way more info than you needed to answer your question, sorry about that.