Artwork for frontend on SD card with ROMs on CIFS share is not working.

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Source: Zaparoo / #support

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Reporter - 2026-05-26 06:04 UTC

i want my ROMs on a CIFS share, but the artwork for frontend to be on the SD for speed. can't add a symlink to a cifs share pointing back to the sd card, so how do I pull this off (tried absolute path to a different directory in gamelist.xml already, too)?