05255: any game that saves a "diff" file: cfg files are not saving

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
05255	Save/Restore	Major	Always	Aug 4, 2013, 23:57	Aug 6, 2013, 03:24

Tester	scoobydude51	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	Invalid report	OS	Windows Vista/7/8 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Closed			Driver
Version	0.149	Fixed in Version		Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	05255: any game that saves a "diff" file: cfg files are not saving
Description	cfg files are not saving with any game that has a diff file. any other games save without a problem..
Steps To Reproduce
Additional Information	the game is not saving controls, analog controls, dip switches and bookkeeping information. I have to reconfigure everything every time I want to play the game.
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Regression Version
Affected Sets / Systems	any game that saves a "diff" file

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No.09699 Tafoid Administrator Aug 5, 2013, 18:39	I tried KINST (which has a CHD) and a made a dip switch change. The resulting .cfg file when ending wrote correctly to disk - therefore, I cannot reproduce. This sounds like you have a folder permission issue or other configuration issue that is not the result or error of MAME. Have you tried setting up MAME in a different (new) folder?
No.09701 scoobydude51 Tester Aug 6, 2013, 00:40	yeah I figured it out. it's the Hard Disk Directory in the cfg file. if I rename the path to for instance, to my desktop it saves. it must be that the path name was too long or something. I don't know. but otherwise, it now saves.