script to create shortcut to the LOVE game's save folder

[sanjiv]

Since love.filesystem contains knowledge about the game's save directory, how would one go about creating a lua script that can generate a shortcut to that directory? It seems like that would save people significant time and energy.

[Robin]

What do you mean by shortcut?

[substitute541]

As in a .lnk file or similar. (.lnk is Window's shortcut files).

[Zeliarden]

The shortcut would be saved in the directory that it´s linking to
Just make a shortcut with this in it

%appdata%\LOVE\

or

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function lazy() -- win love dir to clipboard
	savedir = love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory( )
	lovedir = love.filesystem.getAppdataDirectory( ) .. "/LOVE"
		
	success = love.filesystem.write( "clipboard.txt", lovedir)
	--success = love.filesystem.write( "clipboard.txt", "\%appdata%\\LOVE")
	print(lovedir .. " --> clipboard")
	os.execute("CLIP < " .. savedir .. "/clipboard.txt")
end

[Zeliarden]

You can make a Explorer .love shortcut

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function winexplorer() -- opens up win explorer at love save dir
	lovedir = love.filesystem.getAppdataDirectory( ) .. "/LOVE"
	lovedir = string.gsub(lovedir, "/","\\" )	
	os.execute("EXPLORER" .. " " .. lovedir)
	love.event.quit()
end

[Boolsheet]

Note that love.filesystem.getAppdataDirectory returns a UTF-8 encoded string and os.execute may be expecting something different (it's very unlikely that it takes UTF-8 on Windows). Passing the string without modification won't work with paths that have characters outside of ASCII. If you use the %APPDATA% macro instead, then Windows will expand it into the full application data path.