Getting save directory items

[Hipreme]

What I wanted to do is:

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love.filesystem.getDirectoryItems(love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory())

And then get every file that the user has in it save folder, but it does not return anything

Doing

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love.filesystem.getDirectoryItems("")

instead, will return every source file plus the save folder files, how can I manage to get only from save folder?
I've tried passing to "save/" and "saves/" as parameters, but it doesn't seem to work

[grump]

Best solution is to create a dedicated save directory when your game starts.
In cases where that's not sufficient, you can use love.filesystem.getRealDirectory to check the real location of each file.

[zorg]

I appreciate the private message, but i'll answer here instead:
The love.filesystem.getRealDirectory wiki page has an example of what you want to do.

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-- Get all files in the "levels" folder.
-- There might be a "levels" folder in both the save directory and the game's source,
-- in which case this will get all files in both.
local filepaths = love.filesystem.getDirectoryItems("levels")
 
for i, filename in ipairs(filepaths) do
    -- For each filename, check whether it's in the save directory or not.
    local path = "levels/"..filename
    if love.filesystem.getRealDirectory(path) == love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory() then
        -- This file is in the save directory.
    end
end

[ivan]

as grump said you dont need that check at all, just make a unique folder in the save directory. name your folder something useful like the version of your game (in case the save format changes)

[zorg]

True, but if one doesnt want to do it that way, then it is best to expand on that alt answer... also they private messaged me so i felt like answering here instead, as i already said.