[Bug 47408] New: Katamari Damacy: AppData\Local mismatch causes Steam Cloud to be ignored

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47408

Bug ID: 47408
           Summary: Katamari Damacy: AppData\Local mismatch causes Steam
                    Cloud to be ignored
           Product: Wine
           Version: 4.10
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Hi,

This game seems to have hardcoded the directories for the AppData\Local and
AppData\LocalLow folders, and that means the game isn't syncing with Steam
Cloud, because Steam is a good program and knows where to store the files
correctly and this game doesn't.

Specifically, Steam saves in the right directory ("%LocalAppData%" ->
"%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data"), and the game is looking for
"%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local"; thus, Steam can't see the files that the game
writes and vice-versa. Note that the game loads and saves correctly; it just
does it in the wrong directory.

There is also the issue of LocalLow being missing entirely.

Now, obviously, this bug sits entirely with the game; but there seems to be
more reports about games missing these specific folders (see bug #45713). And
this bug is very easily fixable, too, by creating symlinks.

That said, the AppData directories are standard since Windows Vista, and Wine
is using the very old, XP-style Application Data structure.

I propose that we create symlinks from AppData\Local and AppData\Romaing
pointing to the correct directories, and create AppData\LocalLow on prefix
creation. Hopefully that would be simple to do, and it'd fix every bug of this
kind.

[Bug 47408] Katamari Damacy: AppData\Local mismatch causes Steam Cloud to be ignored

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João Ferreira  changed:

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João Ferreira  changed:

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soredake  changed:

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[Bug 47408] Katamari Damacy: AppData\Local mismatch causes Steam Cloud to be ignored

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Anastasius Focht  changed:

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           Severity|minor                       |normal
         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #1 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello João,

thanks for the report. I'm merging all issues which suffer from same underlying
problem into bug 46320 ("Multiple applications and games need support for
Windows Vista+ User Shell Folder layout, specifically 'Local AppData'").

--- quote ---
There is also the issue of LocalLow being missing entirely.
--- quote ---

'AppData\LocalLow' is supported/created since a long time.
Maybe you have an old/broken prefix?

Regards

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46320 ***

[Bug 47408] Katamari Damacy: AppData\Local mismatch causes Steam Cloud to be ignored

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Alistair Leslie-Hughes  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Alistair Leslie-Hughes  ---
Closing Duplicate.