Hey! Ty for the idea. I finally messed around with it now and I using FlatSeal, I gave it tons of permissions, saw that it made a new pictures directory, checked what the existing permissions were, saw that it referenced the xdg default directory for pictures, found out what that was, turns out there's a file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs saw that it didn't have a pictures directory listed, so I fixed that, set back up my existing redirect to the NTFS partition, just in case made sure to give Vintage Story permissions for the non-redirect referenced directory (/media/storagedrive/pictures/vintagestory, not just xdg-pictures/vintagestory:create) and yeah now it works fine. I'm not 100% which step was the one that I was missing, mb the user-dirs.dirs setup????? but yeah now it's working aksjhdkashdakjshd