Working with saves from all users

[GottemHams]

In pretty much all of the PS3 homebrew guides it's recommended to create a separate user with its own PSN account just for homebrew stuff, to decrease the risk of problems with your legitimate accounts. So I figured that with Apollo I could e.g. copy saves between users and unlock another user's saves, but it seems that currently Apollo only allows us to interact with the currently logged in user's saves. Perhaps I missed something because the feature list does state it's "multi-user" and "quick access to all the save files on [the internal PS3 HDD]", although it is a bit vague about what exactly it entails.

[bucanero]

Yes, Apollo only shows the current user's save-games (HDD). On USB shows everything on /PS3/SAVEDATA/

So for that usage scenario, you need to:

• copy the savegame from "user account A" to USB,
• then login to "user B" and use Apollo to resign the USB save.
• Finally you can copy the savegame to "user B" HDD.

[GottemHams]

I don't think that will work for locked saves though, in that case I'd first have to run Apollo with my primary account and that's something I'd like to avoid.

[bucanero]

then use FTP to copy anything (locked or not) from one account to the other, and just use Apollo for resigning.

[GottemHams]

Strangely enough that doesn't seem to work; I can copy a save's directory but Apollo doesn't see it. I verified that both the original and copied save directories have the same structure and none of the files have become corrupt somehow.

[bucanero]

try FTP and copy the folder to your USB drive, inside the /PS3/SAVEDATA/ path. Apollo should see the USB save files

[GottemHams]

That does seem to work, although FTP is pretty slow and when copying multiple directories at once I often lose connection. Would it be possible add a feature to Apollo to allow it to switch between users? Most of your code wouldn't have to change, you'd simply scan a different home directory.

[GottemHams]

Why was this closed without any response to my follow-up question? I think it's a legitimate feature and it may be helpful to many others as well. Not to mention the suggested workaround doesn't work reliably, so the issue at hand hardly qualifies as resolved.

[bucanero]

❌ your issue/question wasn't closed, it was just moved to the Discussions area.

Do you really think that you're entitled to get whatever you request just because "you don't like it"?

But now that you ask again, I'll give my answer: the source code is there, you're free to develop yourself.