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Hi, Got a creative game (scriptorium) running through steam on bazzite. In that game you can save projects as pngs. If I click on show folder in the game in opens an emulated windows explorer with path c steamuser ... As a workaround I can copy it here and paste it into my actual files but does anyone know there I can find these emulated windows paths?

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[–] Goingdown@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here is how you can find it.

  • First, in Steam, go to Settings -> Storage. There you can see the path for your library.
  • Click ... icon and select Browse Folder
  • Open compactdata folder
  • Open folder 3119540 (3119540 is Steam ID number for Scriptorium)
  • Open folder pfx
  • Open folder drive_c - this is emulated C drive of the game
  • Most probably pictures are in users/steamuser folder somewhere

Perfect, thank you this was the solution. <3

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

Based on what I see on my Steam Deck (not sure on Bazzite specifics), it looks like the WINE prefixes are stored in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata

I think the number in each folder name is the game's steam ID, which makes it a bit cryptic. You can probably find that ID by running grep -i "name of game" *.acf in the steamapps folder. The files are named like appmanifest_STEAMID.acf, if I understand how this works correctly. You might also just be able to search for the file you're looking for directly though if you know what the name is inside the prefix and it's distinct enough.

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

These "emulated windows paths" are called prefixes. For Steam it depends on the game where it will put the save files, for Bazzite I would start looking at following locations as mentioned in this post (even though this is about a different game, but the information is still valid): https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/saved-games-for-2-steam-accounts/10900/2