/home/<username>/.local/share/ruffle is not generated using nightly desktop

[idealemu]

Describe the bug

I just tried nightly desktop running a file for CannyonDefense2.swf and while looking for saves, which I found should be in /home/<username>/.local/share/ruffle I found that the nightly desktop version, installed with flatpack, does not create this folder ? I assume this is a bug since, this issue says that it is where the saves should be made.
I know that the browser version of this game, when flash was still a thing, had saving functionality.
Ruffle preferences are set to save to disk.

Expected behavior

Folder path /home/<username>/.local/share/ruffle should be generated and contain saves ?

Content Location

SWF can be downloaded from https://www.play-games.com/game/37945/canyon-defense-2.html, the file can be seen on the network tab and is called 2v4.swf.

Affected platform

Desktop app

Operating system

Linux, PopOs 22.04

Browser

No response

Additional information

Ruffle Version:

[Croworbit]

if you don't see any save data (assuming this is a completely fresh install of ruffle), most likely no save data has been created yet.
the game may not save at all, or you may not have reached a point in the game where it does save

and then there is the matter of when. some games save only after the game is closed, some save at points you can interact while the game runs, some auto save and some do not save at all, even on original flash

since you say this game does have saving, try seeing at what point the game saves
if that doesn't work, it might indeed be a bug

[kjarosh]

Hi @idealemu!

Flatpak doesn't store local data inside ~/.local/share/ruffle, check instead ~/.var/app/rs.ruffle.Ruffle/. We should probably update information about save files location.

Please let me know if the path works for you

[idealemu]

Hi @idealemu!

Flatpak doesn't store local data inside ~/.local/share/ruffle, check instead ~/.var/app/rs.ruffle.Ruffle/. We should probably update information about save files location.

Please let me know if the path works for you

This path does indeed exist ! I'm not sure what form, or where inside, save data should go, but the folder does indeed exist 👍

[idealemu]

if you don't see any save data (assuming this is a completely fresh install of ruffle), most likely no save data has been created yet. the game may not save at all, or you may not have reached a point in the game where it does save

and then there is the matter of when. some games save only after the game is closed, some save at points you can interact while the game runs, some auto save and some do not save at all, even on original flash

since you say this game does have saving, try seeing at what point the game saves if that doesn't work, it might indeed be a bug

I can confirm that using ruffle on web, through this website produces saves. In the sense that I can reload the page, and/or refresh Ruffle, and progress remains.
From what I have seen of local desktop nightly behaviour this does not seem to be the case.

But I am also facing some unrelated graphical issues which makes further testing difficult, where using Ruffle makes me graphics card glitch out and my screen go white, but I do not think this is specific to Ruffle itself, or at least not entirely.

[kjarosh]

This path does indeed exist ! I'm not sure what form, or where inside, save data should go, but the folder does indeed exist 👍

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. The directory is specifically ~/.var/app/rs.ruffle.Ruffle/data/ruffle/, it's the equivalent of ~/.local/share/ruffle for Flatpak. Inside of it, the directory SharedObjects contains save data.