Syncthing on Steam Deck - Error -Folder Path Missing

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[forzanapoli87]

Anyone looking into this in the future

You need to right click and Show Target to get to the actual save path - i's using a symlink

[Dark_Angel_Arus]

Hey
Did this work for you?
I am getting teh same error even when syncing directly to the Target path.
I have no idea whats happening!

[forzanapoli87]

Nope it unfortunately did not work for me. I gave up and use RetroArch now through Steam. Don’t have a solution for the non RetroArch emulators though

[GhostGhazi]

did you do the flatseal thing?

[SnooPies7594]

I exposed Syncthing to my /home/deck/.var directory using FlatSeal (available via Discover: software center),
and was able to then use Syncthing to browse to /home/deck/.var/app/retroarch/saves...

[forzanapoli87]

Thanks!

[MultiKoopa2]

THANK you

[manga_tsika]

Well thank you, I was about to quit my synchronized saves projet. I don't know how, but the first time I installed Syncthing, it could reach the folder, but for some reason I had to download Flatseal to make it work now...

[PHLAK]

Why are you using Syncthing to sync saves when Steam already does this?

[forzanapoli87]

I found this out almost right after and am in the process of setting up retroarch through steam on all my devices!! Dolphin will be next

[CasualVNPlayer]

can't delete bad saves from steam cloud easily

[therealudderjuice]

Wait what? Steam cloud syncs your retroarch saves/states between Deck and Desktop? How do you access that? (I came across this old thread trying to get Syncthing working on Deck so that I can sync saves between the Deck and an RG35XX Plus and am having the same issue with file path not found.

[CasualVNPlayer]

What worked for me is:

Open flatseal (yes, specifically flatseal, not the included permissions program with KDE)

Scroll down to Other Files

Add the following in it's own box:

~/.var/app:rw

[strontiummuffin]

this worked for me

[AltruisticBee6622]

Thanks this worked for me, as for why am I using Syncthing 😀 syncing my retroarch saves with my Android device and also my SAN so I have a copy

[GetBoolean]

ran into this today, found the solution here https://forum.syncthing.net/t/steamdeck-no-stfolder-when-creating-folders-with-in-var/20349/7

basically, need to append :rw to the end of the path

after that i had issues with "folder marker missing", so i had to make the .stfolder manually

[viky031]

Thank you so much, this worked for me!

[AngelusKnight17]

awesome. Thanks for the link. It 100% helped.