The culprit is MAME (mame_0.206+dfsg.1-1 in my buster machine). I deleted the directory, ran MAME thru the menu and voila, it showed up again.
changing .mame/io.ini so that the key historypath starts with .mame/ is enough to make the problem disappear for me. HTH, -- []s; Massa⠠⠵ via GMail Inbox
