Skyscraper cache relocation

flifpront

i there

I tried to tweak skyscraper config.ini to relocate cache folder to my NAS

Everything looks ok but when I begin scrapping I get an error message telling me it can write on the folder “ can’t write on cache folder, not enough space? ”

The nas has plenty of space, I guess it’s more an write authorisation issue.

Retropie has write credentials and I don’t understand where I’m supposed to give that credential, if it’s really the problem

Red the GitHub but couldn’t find anything related to this issue.

Thanks a lot

muldjord

@flifpront Yeah, there are issues with calculating free disk space on certain network mounts. You can disable the check with:

[main]
spaceCheck="false"

It's documented here in case you want to read more about it.

flifpront

Thanks I’ll try that 🙂

flifpront

added

spaceCheck="false"

but I still get :

Warning! Couldn't add resource to cache. Have you run out of disk space?

Error writing file: '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/cache/n64/videos/screenscraper/XXXXX.mp4' to cache. Please check permissions.

I

flifpront

[main]
##Setting input, gamelist or media folder here, will automatically append '/[platform]' to path.
##If you need better control, use the same variables under a [<platform>] section instead.
#inputFolder="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms"
#excludeFiles="*[BIOS]*"
#includeFiles="Super*"
#gameListFolder="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms"
#gameListBackup="false"
#mediaFolder="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms"
cacheFolder="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/cache"
#cacheResize="false"
#nameTemplate="%t [%f], %P player(s)"
#jpgQuality="95"
#cacheCovers="true"
#cacheScreenshots="true"
#cacheWheels="true"
#cacheMarquees="true"
#importFolder="/home/pi/.skyscraper/import"
#unpack="false"
#frontend="emulationstation"
#emulator=""
#launch=""
#videos="false"
#videoSizeLimit="42"
#videoConvertCommand="ffmpeg -i %i -y -pix_fmt yuv420p -t 00:00:10 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a aac -b:a 64k -vf scale=640:480:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=640:480:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2,setsar=1 %o"
#videoConvertExtension="mp4"
#symlink="false"
#brackets="true"
#maxLength="10000"
#threads="2"
#pretend="false"
#unattend="false"
#unattendSkip="false"
#interactive="false"
#forceFilename="false"
#verbosity="1"
#skipped="false"
#maxFails="30"
#lang="en"
#region="wor"
#langPrios="en,de,es"
#regionPrios="eu,us,ss,uk,wor,jp"
#minMatch="0"
#artworkXml="artwork.xml"
#relativePaths="false"
#addExtensions="*.zst"
#hints="false"
#subdirs="true"
spaceCheck="false"
#scummIni="/full/path/to/scummvm.ini"

mitu

@flifpront Did you check the permissions on the cache folder ? Can you write to it, as the pi user (assuming you're running Skyscraper as the pi user) ?

flifpront

Hi,

Yes I use pi to run Skyscraper

tried a

sudo chmod -R a+rwx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/cache

to give R W and Execute permisson which seemed to work then rebooted

but the problem is still there

mitu

@flifpront said in Skyscraper cache relocation:

sudo chmod -R a+rwx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/cache

That's a bad idea - don't use sudo or 777 permissions.
Can you try to write a file to the cache folder - as the pi user - and see if you get an error ? How are you mounting your NAS folder on the Pi ?

flifpront

you are right

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/cache $ touch fichier.txt
touch: cannot touch 'fichier.txt': Permission denied

I don't really know how to give properly pi the permission (found my previous sudo chmod in a linux forum)

Nas is mounted in autostart.sh

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=XXX,password=XXXX //192.168.X.X/home/jeux/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie

mitu

@flifpront Try changing the mount line to

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=XXX,password=XXXX,uid=pi //192.168.X.X/home/jeux/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie

then reboot and see if you can create files in the cache folder.

flifpront

that worked. thanks both of you @mitu @muldjord