Wauza, it’s been quite a while, huh.
Anyways, that aside, I was wondering if it was possible to create new folders underneath your given application folder with sys.get_save_file() and sys.save() (for organization’s sake)?
For example, something like going into C:\Users\Person\AppData\Roaming\name_of_game and then making a new folder within it, turning it into C:\Users\Person\AppData\Roaming\name_of_game\some_subfolder
And if that’s not possible with sys.save() (or any tangential functions) are there any workarounds?
Okii, so.
I think I have some sort of weird workaround that kind of works?
There were a few edits to the original post because I thought I found a workaround, thought it didn’t work, but turns out it does, with just a few nuances.
Turns out with sys.get_save_file(), you can create new folders, just only one at a ᴛime.
So if you wanted to make more than one, you’d have to save something to space out the original subfolder first.
local subfolder = sys.get_save_file("app_name/sub1","can opener")
local f, err = io.open(subfolder, "wb")
-- Making another subfolder
subfolder = sys.get_save_file("app_name/sub1/sub2","can opener for the smaller can")
local f, err = io.open(subfolder, "wb")
f:close()
Something like that? I think it works.
(Edit) Turns out you don’t even need to write data to it, you just need to open it up with io.open(). Neat!
Also note that Checkpoint handles nested save directories too, using the Lua File System native extension.
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