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    Can’t Remove emulator choice for ROM

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      vretro
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      Pi Model 3
      Power Supply used: 2 amp official power supply
      RetroPie Version Used: 4.3.7
      Built From: Raspbian with Retro Pie Script
      USB Devices connected: iBuffalo SNES style controller

      When attempting to change the emulator used to launch an individual game, I get an permissions error telling me that I can’t make that change. Selecting remove emulator choice does not help either.

      I have used Retropie setup and tried to use the repair permissions command to no effect.

      Any pointers appreciated:

      Error:
      sed you are not authorised to change (directory pointing to emulator)

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @vretro
        last edited by mitu

        @vretro

        @vretro said in Can’t Remove emulator choice for ROM:

        sed you are not authorised to change (directory pointing to emulator)

        Which directory is that ? Take note of it and then modify its permissions so the pi user has write access to it.

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          vretro @mitu
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          @mitu that was quick, the directory flashes up so quickly, but I’ll try to record the screen to catch it.

          I don’t know how to repair permissions via terminal, will have to look that up.

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            Clyde @vretro
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            @vretro said in Can’t Remove emulator choice for ROM:

            @mitu that was quick, the directory flashes up so quickly, but I’ll try to record the screen to catch it.

            Or try to catch it using the Pause key of your keyboard.

            I don’t know how to repair permissions via terminal, will have to look that up.

            It depends whether the owner is wrong or the actual access permissions. To change the owner, look up chown, to change the permissions, look up chmod. Or give us the output of this command after you found out the directory and we may tell you the necessary command(s).

            ls -ld name_of_directory

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