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StreamingAssets on Linux builds

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by stn1986, May 13, 2013.

  1. stn1986

    stn1986

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    Good day,

    I use the StreamingAssets folder on Windows/Mac builds. The client has recently requested a Linux build which would be awesome indeed. However, I noticed the StreamingAssets folder is not being copied on build and manually copying it does nothing, it doesn't seem to be able to access it.

    Is this a known issue?

    Thanks,
    Sander
     
    stn1986, May 13, 2013
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  2. stn1986

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    No one?
     
    stn1986, May 15, 2013
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  3. Nition

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    I've got the same issue. Unfortunately I can't find any information about it either, but I can confirm that any Streaming Assets stuff just doesn't work on Linux.
     
    Nition, May 17, 2013
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  4. skateborden

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    I just tried to make a linux build of one of my projects for the first time and ran into this same issue. Have either of you submitted a bug report?
     
    skateborden, Jun 13, 2013
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  5. Nition

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    Actually, contrary to what the original post says, it looks like I can work around the issue by manually copying the StreamingAssets folder into the build (it goes in the _Data folder). I managed to successfully load a file from there in Linux.

    Here's a bug report for it not being copied, anyway: [edit: Removed the bug report link as it was causing my email to show up on Google in a roundabout way].
     
    Last edited: Jul 4, 2017
    Nition, Jun 13, 2013
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  6. skateborden

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    Good to know that manually copying the StreamingAssets in seems to be working for you. I just noticed that StreamingAssets was missing and assumed that's why my project was crashing, I guess maybe it's also some other reason. ;)
     
    skateborden, Jun 13, 2013
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  7. Nition

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    Got a reply from Unity QA: "That issue is already fixed internally and will ship with a future version of Unity (not a 4.1.x version though)." :)
     
    Nition, Jun 14, 2013
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  8. stn1986

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    @Nition: Nice, I'll try copying it manually again.

    We've contacted support about this and they told us it wouldn't be 4.1.x indeed, but 4.2.
     
    stn1986, Jun 21, 2013
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  9. acidjunk

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    We did some simple tests in 4.2: streaminassets are copied and can be loaded on linux!
     
    acidjunk, Aug 6, 2013
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