Path of Application.persistentDataPath on Linux?

Hey there!

The internet wasn't able to tell me where Unity's Application.persistentDataPath points to on Linux, so I figured asking about that here. I'd love to make my save games on Linux compatible with Steam's Auto-Cloud for which I have the following options:

LinuxHome/[Company]/[ProjectName]
LinuxXdgDataHome/[Company]/[ProjectName]

Any ideas where Application.persistentDataPath points to on Linux?

 

persistentDataPath is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Company/ProjectName (XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to ~/.config)

You can get XDG_DATA_HOME (or its default of ~/.local/share) by calling Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData)

 

So I should probably fill in the following in Steam Auto-Cloud, right?

[LinuxXdgDataHome]/unity3d/[Company]/[ProjectName]

 

FWIW: Steam's documentation states that LinuxXdgDataHome points to $XDG_DATA_HOME/ or $HOME/.local/share/.

 

I guess, [LinuxXdgConfigHome].

 

After a bunch of testing, apparently [LinuxHome] was the right one, leading to: .config/unity3d/CompanyName/GameName

 

This is nearly cheating, but mind if I ask what you ended up with for the entirety of your auto-cloud config? =D

Or really, the Linux one specifically is the one I'm hoping to avoid doing a full 1/2 day+ of rebooting into various distros in order to test.

Thanks in advance either way -- I know how 'fun' this trial & error stuff is, figured worth a shot to ask.

 

My save files end with '.data', hence the pattern.

 

Ah, that's awesome -- thank you, can't thank you enough! =D

If there's ever anything we can do for you shoot us a message!

 

home/.config/unity3d/DefaultCompany/[project]

 

Sorry to up this topic but it could be great to update the docs to reflect this.

https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Application-persistentDataPath.html

 

Yeah the docs are just totally wrong for Linux. (Classic!)

 

i am having an error (UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\UmaradilAzar\AppData\LocalLow\Runner\RunnerUI' is denied)
is anyone have an idea how to get permission for linux ?

 

That path does not exist on Linux. It's not a permission problem, you are just getting an invalid path.

 

At the moment am working on windows, it is not giving me permission for persistent datapath, later on i would switch the build for linux