Thanks, I just checked, it seems physfs' version there is the same as in 11.4. I have opened an issue about this, will keep this posted

And it seems that the latest version of physfs has this fixed; going to the GitHub repo I checked and it seems that the relevant line has been changed: retval = ( (rc) && ((statbuf.filetype == PHYSFS_FILETYPE_DIRECTORY) || (statbuf.filetype == PHYSFS_FILETYPE_SYMLINK)) ); I wonder if I'm rea...

ARGHH, that's what it is! In `physfs.c`, the function that is supposed to create (recursively) the directory is called `doMkdir`. Inside, there is a loop that splits the incoming directory name by '/' (so that it can examine one piece at a time and generate the directories recursively). If the direc...

Uuh, that's quite a good guess. I wouldn't call it weird partitioning, but I do have `.local` as a symlink to a folder in another partition (of an SSD, my home is on an HDD). I also really hope it's not this, I'm not sure I'd be able to fix it

Ok, so I'm going deep into this. I have cloned LOVE 11.4, compiled it, and I'm now running to try to figure out exactly where that fails. The failing point seems to be (as it should be obvious) in the setup of the write directory. There is a function that is called to create the save directory: bool...

I can definitely believe that it's a problem on my system, but I have no idea what it is, and I would still like to fix it. Which love folder do you want me to delete? I have tried the one in `.local/share`, but that doesn't really change anything.

I have started to look into this using `strace`, I haven't used it often so it will probably take a bit to parse the entire output. What I can say for now is that in the log there is no trace of the "abc" file, so LOVE is not even trying to actually write it. On the other hand, it seems it...

I usually use LOVE as packaged from Ubuntu 20.04, but I have also just tried using the AppImage to run my test and I get the same problem.

The slash I actually added as I was trying things, it seems to not really matter unfortunately.

I apologize for opening this thread but I'm getting desperate. I can't seem to make LOVE write files nor create directories in the save folder; I always get the error "Could not set write directory.". I am setting the identity as the first line of my main.lua: function love.load() love.fil...

Turns out that the current AppImage for Linux is not based on a super-new SDL version like I thought. And indeed for me even the AppImage has this bug!