mucan
September 21, 2022, 10:27pm
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The issue is from proton itself.
opened 11:12AM - 24 Aug 18 UTC
closed 08:21AM - 15 Nov 18 UTC
I have installed games on an exFAT-formatted HDD.
But when I try to start the g… ame, I receive a following error.
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/harddrive/arch/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 3.7/proton", line 100, in <module>
tar.extractall(path=basedir + "/dist")
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2081, in extractall
self.extract(tarinfo, path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2118, in extract
self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2202, in _extract_member
self.makelink(tarinfo, targetpath)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2280, in makelink
os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath)
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
```
It might be happened because exFAT doesn't support symbolic links.
Proton prefixes need symlinks to work but they don’t work on exfat drives.
One sollution is to move all games from the drive and formatting it as NTFS and then moving them back onto the drive. Thus you can still use it with both Windows and Linux.
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