Emulator Issues #11212
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Dolphin cannot import Wii savefiles if the "wii\title\[...]\data" folder doesn't exist
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Description
What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.
If you import a .bin savefile of a specific game and the \data folder of that games savefile(the one that opens with "Open Wii save folder") doesn't exist, the import will fail and you'll get an error message "Failed to import save files".
It will import properly as long as the folder exists, even if it's empty.
Is the issue present in the latest development version? For future reference, please also write down the version number of the latest development version.
Yes 5.0-8074
Is the issue present in the latest stable version?
The issue wasn't present in 5.0-7964 so probably not.
If the issue isn't present in the latest stable version, which is the first broken version? (You can find the first broken version by bisecting. Windows users can use the tool https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-green-notice-development-thread-unofficial-dolphin-bisection-tool-for-finding-broken-builds and anyone who is building Dolphin on their own can use git bisect.)
5.0-7972
What are your PC specifications? (CPU, GPU, Operating System, more)
Windows 10
Updated by leoetlino almost 6 years ago
- Status changed from New to Working as intended
This is working as intended. It shouldn't be possible to import saves for games that you haven't ever launched because it messes up filesystem information. (The system menu and even homebrew save managers won't let you do it on console.) In old versions, Dolphin let you do it and the system menu would crash.
Maybe we should have a more descriptive and useful message for it, though.