ValveSoftware / ValveSoftware/Proton

Proton 5.0-5 fails to extract bin folder on NTFS

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Description

On Proton 5.0-5 the "bin" folder within the "dist" folder will fail to extract from the archive when Proton is on NTFS. The "bin" folder may be extracted manually by opening the archive and dragging the "bin" folder from within to the "dist" folder and games should then launch. All other folders from the archive extracts correctly.

On earlier versions of Proton(4.11-13), this also fails. The extraction script, however, seems to work differently in that when it fails to extract the "bin" folder it will delete the "dist" folder and try again... only to fail over and over.

All of this is repeatable after multiple Proton install moves between the Linux drive and the NTFS one and reboots.

Distro: Arch Linux(up-to-date)
Windows chkdsk: no disk errors detected.

I'm guessing this is a bug with a system package, but no clue which.

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Research direction

Start with the Proton extraction script and reproduce the failure on an NTFS install using the reported Proton 5.0-5 and Arch Linux setup. Compare the failed extraction of dist/bin with manually dragging bin from the archive, and consider the issue done when the archive extracts the folder successfully without deleting and retrying dist.

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Assessment

Tech stack
arch-linux, linux
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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