zerojay/RetroPie-Extra

Logs, Paks, Saves, Screenshots dirs are written in wrong place with RetroPie 4.7.16

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On a Pi4 with latest RetroPie (4.7.16) the layout configured in funtion configure_openbor() is:

pi@retropie:/opt/retropie/emulators/openbor $ ls -la
total 5648
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Jul 24 22:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi    985    4096 Jul 24 22:55 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4566420 Jul 24 22:55 libGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       8 Jul 24 22:55 Logs -> /dev/shm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1201852 Jul 24 22:55 OpenBOR
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      36 Jul 24 22:55 Paks -> /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/openbor
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     163 Jul 24 22:55 retropie.pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      35 Jul 24 22:55 Saves -> /opt/retropie/configs/openbor/Saves
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      41 Jul 24 22:55 ScreenShots -> /opt/retropie/configs/openbor/ScreenShots

but after running a random PAK, the openbor executable writes files in another place:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie-Setup $ ls -l
total 96
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   146 Nov  4  2020 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   417 Nov  4  2020 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   635 Nov  4  2020 COPYRIGHT.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Feb  3 00:40 ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 32265 Nov  4  2020 LICENSE.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jul 24 22:53 logs
==> drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jul 25 01:23 Logs <==
==> drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jul 24 23:42 Paks <==
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi  6269 Jun 15 00:58 platforms.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi  2033 Nov  4  2020 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi  2314 Jul 21 18:17 retropie_packages.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi   520 Nov  4  2020 retropie_setup.sh
==> drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jul 25 01:33 Saves <==
==> drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jul 24 23:42 ScreenShots <==
drwxr-xr-x 7 pi pi  4096 Jul 21 18:17 scriptmodules
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi  4096 Jan 17  2021 tmp
pi@retropie:~/RetroPie-Setup/Logs $ ls -la
total 804
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi pi   4096 Jul 25 01:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 pi pi   4096 Jul 24 23:42 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi   6365 Jul 25 01:34 OpenBorLog.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 805467 Jul 25 01:32 ScriptLog.txt

Did I messed up my installation?

LNRC commented

I would like to know the answer to this, I changed the file name for a pak and lost all my save progress x_x