Shared Folder (simple command line request)

Addison

Hi.

I would like all of the files that are read and written from this folder:
/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup

To have all that be done here instead:
/home/pi/RetroPie/saves

The reason for this is that I use Cloud Saving and have everything in a single folder.

Cheers. :)

sleve_mcdichael

Would a symlink work?

ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup /home/pi/RetroPie/saves

Or flip-flop if you need to. First one is the "real" directory where the files exist, second one is the "shortcut" that will point to it. Most things won't care which is which but cloud saving might.

Addison

@sleve_mcdichael said in Shared Folder (simple command line request):

Would a symlink work?
ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup /home/pi/RetroPie/saves
Or flip-flop if you need to. First one is the "real" directory where the files exist, second one is the "shortcut" that will point to it. Most things won't care which is which but cloud saving might.

Yes and no on that working.

For some reason, Drastic is very much different than the other emulators so it doesn't trigger the cloud saving feature script I have installed.

ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup /home/pi/RetroPie/saves

How can I remove that symlink please?

I guess with Drastic, I'll just do manual file transfers using FTP on a tablet.

EDIT:

Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing here. :D

pi@retropie:~ $ rm -f /home/pi/RetroPie/saves
rm: cannot remove '/home/pi/RetroPie/saves': Is a directory
pi@retropie:~ $ rm -f /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup
rm: cannot remove '/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup': Is a directory

sleve_mcdichael

@addison

rm: cannot remove '/home/pi/RetroPie/saves': Is a directory

That means the directory already existed; thus, the symlink was unable to be created.

Use rmdir to remove a directory (it has to be empty. Or you can use rm -r to recursively remove the non-empty directory and everything in it. Be careful with rm -r.) A symlink, since it's not a directory, can be removed with a simple rm.

RapidEdwin08

@addison
Could try to mount the folder instead of symbolic link?

mount --bind /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/backup /home/pi/RetroPie/saves

Try it first manually, if it works for you, add the mount command to autostart.sh or rc.local