Ventoy Persistence has become discouraging. What have I done wrong.?

[captain-sensible]

ok when ventoy formats usb stick ; the usb when mounted will display the label "ventoy"

this caused some confusion for me. Have a look at me tree of usb:

ventoy
├── ISO
│   └── linuxmint-19-cinnamon-32bit.iso
├── persistence.img
└── ventoy
└── ventoy.json

Top of tree is "ventoy" which is label for formatted usb stick.

I then have a directory called "ISO" in which i have mint 19 32 bit iso

For the persistence.img i just dragged it stright onto stick.

But look NEXT i have a directory called "ventoy" inside the usb stick called Ventoy and in that directory
I have my ventoy.json

By the way i booted up Mint 32 bit on my 64 bit laptop; i installed "medit" after connecting to wifi.

I shut down and then cold booted up. medit was there are wifi connected automatically - i.e persistence worked

So create a directory called "ventoy" and put ventoy.json in it and see if that fixes the problem,