Games/apps unavailable after restoring emuMMC

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Hello!
When I originally partitioned my sd card, I made an android partition which I wanted to get rid of.

So I decided to back up the emuMMC and copy all files over, wipe it and set it up again. I followed the "transfer sd" (title:
Changing microSD cards) guide at switch.hacks

However, my games and forwarded applications show up as archived/not downloaded and wants me to connect to the internet (Don't worry, I have the hosts file correctly set up)
I have moved over all the files and everything from the emuMMC folder to where it was previously, however I cannot start any applications despite this.

I have seen some suggestions that the Nintendo folder also has to be placed correctly on the root folder of the sd card (which it has been).
What are my options here apart from reinstalling apps/games?
 

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Hello!
When I originally partitioned my sd card, I made an android partition which I wanted to get rid of.

So I decided to back up the emuMMC and copy all files over, wipe it and set it up again. I followed the "transfer sd" (title:
Changing microSD cards) guide at switch.hacks

However, my games and forwarded applications show up as archived/not downloaded and wants me to connect to the internet (Don't worry, I have the hosts file correctly set up)
I have moved over all the files and everything from the emuMMC folder to where it was previously, however I cannot start any applications despite this.

I have seen some suggestions that the Nintendo folder also has to be placed correctly on the root folder of the sd card (which it has been).
What are my options here apart from reinstalling apps/games?
I'm new here so I'm a bit inexperienced with this ^-^ but maybe it could just be that you need to download or install the tickets through tinfoil? or maybe reinstall the games through dbi or awoo. lmk if you found a solution though because I have to change mine to partition based soon too and I'm worried about losing games and save files

also if you fixed it did you get the save files back as well?
 
Hekate has an option to fix the archive bit flag for all folders.
Some applications (and macOS) sometimes set that flag for some reason.
The Nintendo folder needs to be in the root of the SD card.
 

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