ROM folder locked

windg

Try to reset ownership permissions for the rom folder.

RetroPie-Setup > Configuration/Tools > resetromdirs

LektroiD

Try to reset ownership permissions for the rom folder.

RetroPie-Setup > Configuration/Tools > resetromdirs

Hi, and thanks for your post. I did this, I then restarted both my Mac and the Raspberry Pi, but nothing has actually changed. I still get "The operation can’t be completed because it isn’t supported." when I try to move anything into the ROM folder.

windg

@lektroid
Saves are still don't work ?
Sorry i don't know how stuff work in MacOs. To transfer my roms i use WinSCP (sftp/ftp client). Cyberduck it is a sftp/ftp client for MacOs that you can test, don't forget to enable ssh from raspi-config.

mitu

@lektroid said in ROM folder locked:

If anyone could shine some light on this, it would be very much appreciated.

Resetting the ROM folders permissions should be enough. Do you have any other scripts that are running and would change the permissions on the ROM folders ?
Can you run, from the command line, the command

ls -ld /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/n64

and post the output ?

LektroiD

@mitu drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Dec 27 22:16 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/n64

mitu

The permissions look fine, so there's no issue here. Are you Are you sure you're saving the game in-game or that the game has support for saves (controller pak saves maybe ?).
You can try a save state (Hotkey + R) and see if it's saved.

unable to write to ROM folder via network (MacOS Finder: The operation can’t be completed because it isn’t supported.)

How are you accessing the ROM folder over the network - via the Finder (file shares) or SSH (Cyberduck or other program) ?

LektroiD

@mitu said in ROM folder locked:

The permissions look fine, so there's no issue here. Are you Are you sure you're saving the game in-game or that the game has support for saves (controller pak saves maybe ?).
You can try a save state (Hotkey + R) and see if it's saved

unable to write to ROM folder via network (MacOS Finder: The operation can’t be completed because it isn’t supported.)

How are you accessing the ROM folder over the network - via the Finder (file shares) or SSH (Cyberduck or other program) ?

I was saving in game (Controller Pak).

I access it via both Finder and Cyberduck. It refuses to move data into the rom folder.

I have executed the above command for the parent (rom) folder, since the whole folder appears to be affected, which outputted the following result:
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 40 Dec 30 16:19 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

mitu

I wonder if your sdcard hasn't been corrupted/broken. When that happens, they can turn read-only, silently discarding any writes to it.
Can you insert it into your mac and (on the boot partition that will appear) try to create a file ?

LektroiD

@mitu said in ROM folder locked:

I wonder if your sdcard hasn't been corrupted/broken. When that happens, they can turn read-only, silently discarding any writes to it.
Can you insert it into your mac and (on the boot partition that will appear) try to create a file ?

I've removed the SD as mentioned, moved a text file into it via Finder (mac) without a problem. So the SD card appears to be fine.

LektroiD

@mitu I've just noticed at startup; one failed line at boot:

[FAILED] Failed to start dphys-swapfile - set up, mount/unmount, and delete a swap file. See 'systemctl status dphys-swapfile.service' for details.

Couls this be connected to the issue?

mitu

@lektroid said in ROM folder locked:

Couls this be connected to the issue?

It may be - if the filesystem is read-only, creating a swap file would fail.

LektroiD

@mitu I think at this stage a clean reinstall is imminent. Your help and advice is very much appreciated though.