gonna try asking a question here, though this might not be the right spot. noob linux user. fedora 38 prettty vanilla install. i've had what appears to be a similar problem with lutris, and heroic when using the epic game store. when i select a directory that is on my second HDD (btrfs) (/data/heroic/) to install a game from the store, once i choose the directory, it filles in the dialog with a directory that is in /run/user/1000.... . i thought it weird, but the game installed and ran. recently i ran some updates and rebooted, and then heroic was saying my game wasnt installed. and the directory previsouly configured was now empty, picking again through UI (/data/heroic) got me a different "/run/user....". i did some searching, and the internet is telling me this is some kind of mechanism normally meant to give an individual user transient "temp space" i guess, so it makes some sense to me now that it got emptied when i rebooted. since then, i did the install picker again, and "hand typed" the directory path in the chooser field. this seems to be working. my question is, why is the chooser filling in the path selected as one of the "/run/user...." variants, when that is NOT what i'm picking through the chooser ? running on 'flatpak' version btw. any thoughts ?
(20:22:06) INFO: [Backend]: Heroic: Setting defaultInstallPath to "/run/user/1000/doc/fb807606/heroic" (previous value: "/run/user/1000/doc/a4841af5/heroic")
(20:22:24) INFO: [Backend]: Heroic: Setting defaultInstallPath to "/data/heroic" (previous value: "/run/user/1000/doc/fb807606/heroic")
that is some info in the log, showing me (re)setting the install directory through heroic.