How does Ludusavi handle multiple local Steam users ?

[nicolasnobelis]

I have a native Steam Linux installation. Two users are using the PC, with two different Steam accounts.
There is a single OS user: the players just do "Change Steam account" in Steam to change their profile when they want to play..

So you can see there are several type of saves:

1. It Takes too and Little Kitty have both a save in a proton/wine hierarchy, the pfx one. Is it shared across all Steam users ?
2. Little Kitty has additionally a save path parametrized by the Steam user id.

So some questions to @mtkennerly 😃

• Why not all save paths are parametrized by the Steam user id ?
• Shouldn't Ludusavi have a filter by Steam user id to filter out the saves ? If that would be the case, how it would affect the pfx ones ?
• In your opinion, can Steam even handle muttiple Steam profiles on the same computer ? Since the pfx entry is not parametrized by the profile id, it would be overwritten every time a player plays to the game, no ?

Thanks !

[mtkennerly]

Hi! It does seem like Steam and the games are probably expecting you to switch OS users so that the data can go into the respective user's home directory. Using a shared OS user will tend to cause saves to end up being shared across Steam users. Ludusavi can't do much about that since it's up to how the games are designed.

Shouldn't Ludusavi have a filter by Steam user id to filter out the saves ?

Unfortunately, the IDs can come in many different formats (plus consider games with third-party launchers that come with their own account IDs), so Ludusavi doesn't have any filter for this currently. Much like Steam and your games seem to do, Ludusavi assumes that it should back up whatever is available for the current OS user.

Since the pfx entry is not parametrized by the profile id, it would be overwritten every time a player plays to the game, no ?

I can't tell because of the blurring - is pfx inside of the single user's home directory, or is it in a shared system folder? If it's in the home directory, then the best solution would be separate OS users.

[nicolasnobelis]

In my case the pfx is in a shared system folder.

But yes, I see that a clean profile separation was never implemented by Steam and the solution is it use multiple OS users.
Although even that won't protect you for the saves located in shared system folders.

Thanks for the thorough answer !