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How does the "sync with installed epic games" feature work?

The Linux version has a setting for synchronizing an existing Epic Games installation. How can this be used? I've pointed it to the wineprefix, but this didn't change anything. What path does it expect, exactly?

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sunny-green•3y ago

You mean save sync or importing games?

foreign-sapphireOP•3y ago

I'm not quite sure what the option does, to be honest. It could be either? Probably importing games, though?

CommandMC•3y ago

What path does it expect, exactly

Exactly what you gave it, a path to a Wineprefix with the EGL installed EGL sync syncs your games installed in the EGL with Heroic & your games installed in Heroic with the EGL Most of the time you just want to import your games though, yes

foreign-sapphireOP•3y ago

Hm, weird. So the root path before drive_c?

sunny-green•3y ago

Importing games is done individually iirc, you go to game page and click install then you get import option

foreign-sapphireOP•3y ago

I know that, yep. I've done so for a game already.

CommandMC•3y ago

That's not what they're trying to do here; EGL sync is a different option in the global settings

sunny-green•3y ago

👍

foreign-sapphireOP•3y ago

Trouble is that I like to install games outside of the default wineprefix (e.g., on an NFS drive that I've mapped to Z:).

CommandMC•3y ago

Yup You can check the Heroic log to see what exactly it's doing when you give it a path

foreign-sapphireOP•3y ago

Oh, right, log files. Hm, yeah, uhm... that's just showing me that I set the egsLinkedPath value to something, but nothing else.

CommandMC•3y ago

Yup, can confirm that. That's definitely not what's supposed to happen

foreign-sapphireOP•3y ago

However, if I reset it, it refreshes the game library.

CommandMC•3y ago

Gonna have a look at the code, IIRC this wasn't touched in a long time so that might be part of the problem For now, you could run /path/to/legendary egl-sync --enable-sync --egl-wine-prefix /path/to/your/prefix (/path/to/legendary can be found in the logs)

foreign-sapphireOP•3y ago

[cli] INFO: Reading EGL game manifests...

Checking for importable games...
The following games are importable (EGL -> Legendary):
 * 329064225aaf4df29c4658f141173905 - Shop Titans
 * 8b556e7471ac46eda46445d93fa2e73f - Insurmountable
 * 40cb42e38c0b4a14a1bb133eb3291572 - Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
 * bb406082b69a47208489d3616b22b5c2 - Horizon Chase Turbo
 * 8a0173bbe3ac48ac903f5bc7277e7b4e - Alba - A Wildlife Adventure
 * 1e9c3a9a10c6463e9c065f371b8b42bf - Duskers

Note: Only games that are also in Legendary's database are listed, if anything is missing run "list-games" first to update it.
Do you want to import the games from EGL? [Y/n]:

[cli] INFO: Reading EGL game manifests...

Checking for importable games...
The following games are importable (EGL -> Legendary):
 * 329064225aaf4df29c4658f141173905 - Shop Titans
 * 8b556e7471ac46eda46445d93fa2e73f - Insurmountable
 * 40cb42e38c0b4a14a1bb133eb3291572 - Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
 * bb406082b69a47208489d3616b22b5c2 - Horizon Chase Turbo
 * 8a0173bbe3ac48ac903f5bc7277e7b4e - Alba - A Wildlife Adventure
 * 1e9c3a9a10c6463e9c065f371b8b42bf - Duskers

Note: Only games that are also in Legendary's database are listed, if anything is missing run "list-games" first to update it.
Do you want to import the games from EGL? [Y/n]:

Well that's more like it! Thanks!

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