Emulator

What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.

I use a trick to use a webdav mount (for a home network) in Android without root, since google will never give me the ability to hack the devices.

I use RSAF https://github.com/chenxiaolong/RSAF which is to quote 'An Android Storage Access Framework document provider for rclone' to mount a webdav backend accessible to any app as long as it uses the SAF. Which dolphin does, and that's great, since big single files as opposite to many large files are if not the ideal case a ok case.

Except a UI 'convinience' sabotages the usecase.

My local webdav (among other things) server is not always awake or turned on. For other programs this is no big deal. The Android dolphin UI appears to remove already "found" game entries if it can't find them at startup however, so I always have to make sure everything is connected before starting up dolphin.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Eh. Make a webdav Linux server with access through the local network. Install RSAF and setup it to connect to that webdav address. I'm not sure if dolphin needs the toggle to pretend to be local storage it also has (it permits apps that use the Google filechooser but don't allow SAF files to use those files). After scan in dolphin files in the remote for the respective console rom dir. After waiting (quite a lot for every bit of IO), shutdown dolphin with the android task killer in the App Info, then shutdown the server, and try to open dolphin again.

All games scanned will be removed forever.

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, but I have no clue what's the latest dev version.

Is the issue present in the latest release? For future reference, please also write down the version number of the latest release.

Yes, I have 2506a according to app info