Suggestion: Support for symbolic linked folders tool about retrodeck HOT 5 OPEN

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Need to develop a new tool

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The only thing that comes to my mind is mergerfs where the roms directory can be a merged mount of retrodeck/.roms, /media/.../roms, /somewhere/else/roms and so on.

However this may be asking root rights.

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All we need to do is create GUI tools for the creation of Symlinks and we add them as subfolders instead.

So roms/psx/ SUBFOLDER Symlink Creation TOOLS

Then we don't mess with anything within ES-DE and it is not that complicated.

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We could symlink the files into the right folders every time retrodeck is started. This would also make it declarative.
How about this:
User can use configurator to specify additional rom folder paths. Saved into an array.
At retrodeck start, do:

• remove all broken symlinks in $main_roms_folder
• symlink roms:

for folder in ["~/psx", "/media/psx"]:
  for rom in $(ls "$folder"):
    ln -s "$folder/$rom" "$main_roms_folder/$(basename $folder)/"

from retrodeck.

We could symlink the files into the right folders every time retrodeck is started. This would also make it declarative. How about this: User can use configurator to specify additional rom folder paths. Saved into an array. At retrodeck start, do:

* remove all broken symlinks in $main_roms_folder

* symlink roms:

for folder in ["~/psx", "/media/psx"]:
for rom in $(ls "$folder"):
ln -s "$folder/$rom" "$main_roms_folder/$(basename $folder)/"

This approach should be deeply tested with RPCS3 as I did something like this for space issues and the games were not starting, but I cannot tell if it was because of the symlink or else.

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