Hacking Switch game deleted after reboot

[brokentechnology]

Having a weird issue, sorry if this is not the right place. I am converting my physical carts to digital, and found XCI is the simplest as they contain all data the cart would. I create the dump, install, and it works fine. After rebooting the system, the data is deleted from my SD card. It's as if the XCI is simply a temporary file that is not persisted. Is this the case? Mind you, I have not tested NSP format yet, but plan to here shortly.

I am running latest Atmosphere, with latest Hekate. I've verified the SD card is good, with no errors being reported. It is a SanDisk 256GB, perhaps I am better off spending the $100 and getting the 512GB Samsung Evo, as it seems that is most recommended.

Anyone have any thoughts on why games would be deleted upon reboot?

 

[Hayato213]

XCI are mounted not installed , if you want something to be there after you reboot you should go with NSP, as they are smaller than their XCI counterpart.

 

[brokentechnology]

XCI are mounted not installed , if you want something to be there after you reboot you should go with NSP, as they are smaller than their XCI counterpart.

This is exactly what my suspicion was, thanks for confirming it. I'll convert to NSP and update if I have any troubles.

 

[brokentechnology]

Following up, game is still deleted after reboot. I am using Awoo-Installer for the USB transfer from my cart dump. I've converted the XCI to NSP, and it worked as expected. I'm really not sure what's causing this behavior...