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    RetroPie-Setup installs retropiemenu '.rp' files with root ownership - x86

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      movisman
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      Hi there,

      Just a quick one - I noticed while messing around with a clean install on Ubuntu Server 18.04 that when retropiemenu is installed from core packages via RetroPie-Setup or retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu, it will give all the .rp files that are created in /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu root ownership. The icons folder and files are owned by $USER.

      Is this intended?

      When running:
      find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f

      These 'rp' files are the only files which are not owned by $USER, so I thought it was odd that these files would be owned by root.

      I looked here:
      https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/1446ce55fa269fc757a9deb649105405865513db/scriptmodules/supplementary/retropiemenu.sh

      Lines 37-40 look like it should change the owner on the retropiemenu back to $user recursively, so i'm not sure why those files remain owned by root.

      Any ideas?

      Cheers!

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