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External drive issues // Symlinks not working

If you installed osu! to a custom path (ex. an external drive) and the game's not launching, please make sure you're mounting your disk at startup!

That needs to be set manually in /etc/fstab: if your disk is NTFS, I recommend looking into this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

Otherwise if you installed osu! to the usual path and you symlinked some files/folders to it (ex. ln -s /data/osu/Songs ~/.local/share/osu-wine/osu\!/Songs), then make sure that Steam's Runtime can access your disk using PRESSURE_VESSEL_FILESYSTEMS_RW.

Example, assuming my disk is mounted at /data:

PRESSURE_VESSEL_FILESYSTEMS_RW=/data osu-wine

You can also just add that to ~/.local/bin/osu-wine and it should work fine as well.