Retropie not creating directories on thumb drive

[modsbyus]

I have completed the retropie 3 setup on my pi 2 band eveything has gone smoothly on the setup. The only issue I have is with the directories being created on my thumb drive. I have a 16GB thumb drive formatted fat32. I shutdown my pi, insert the thumb drive power on the pi, and ….. no magic. :-(
No directories are created Nothing happens to the drive at all other than being mounted in /run/usbmount/Mass_Storage_Device_1 . I have also tried just plugging it in while the pi is still on and nothing happens then either. What do I need to do to get the directories to be created on the thumb drive?

[petrockblog]

you need to make an initial “retropie” folder on the drive. This was changed from previous releases, so that users who don’t want the sync functionality can easily avoid it.

[petrockblog]

This is mentioned in the changelog for the beta1 image (it’s worth reading through the changelog to see highlights of changes etc).

[modsbyus]

Where can I find the changelog?

[herbfargus]

I maintain a complete changelog on the wiki

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Changelogs

They are also on the downloads page

https://www.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/download-info/retropie-project-sd-card-image-for-raspberry-pi-2-version-3-0-beta/

[modsbyus]

Thanks! I’m good now.

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