lua love2d not finding main.lua file

Question

file exists, and I just love is giving me "basic" window

Basically error is this:

Error

[love "boot.lua"]:323: Cannot load game at path 'C:/Users/bbaku/Desktop/random_folder/Love/main.lua'.
Make sure a folder exists at the specified path.


Traceback

[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
[C]: in function 'error'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

main.lua exists, and location is correct too. I think I set up love2D correctly and added a correct variable.

I am not using LÖVE/LuaJIT very often on Windows but the Paths on em should look like: start love C:\Users\bbaku\Desktop\random_folder\Love and because of coercion from/inside Lua you/we have to use: path = 'C:\\Users\\bbaku\\Desktop\\random_folder\\Love' - Because the Backslash is used for escaping ( like for newline \n or other escape sequences ) by Lua — koyaanisqatsi
– koyaanisqatsi, Commented Nov 9, 2022 at 20:33
Ecxeption is the Lua longstring Definition where you can place also normal whitespace like in the HTML Element <pre>Foo Bar</pre> than you can do with Lua: loadfile([[C:\Users\bbaku\Desktop\random_folder\Love\main.lua]]) or similar things. — koyaanisqatsi
– koyaanisqatsi, Commented Nov 9, 2022 at 20:47

Link_jon · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-09 18:33:44Z

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Make sure a folder exists at the specified path.

The path selected however, ends on a file. Set the path to go to Love/ instead of main.lua.

(This may not work as an answer, but I am unable to comment due to reputation)

answered Nov 9, 2022 at 18:33

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