Issue Report: [resolved] Reinstall Makes Games Unusable

[SavvyWolf]

Anyway, my computer crashed or something, and for some reason ~/Steam/steam.sh was blank. I had to remove it and Steam asked me to install it again, and it did. And I think the install went okay, and steam runs now, at least after the recent update.

Unfortunately, none of my installed games exist on the install. I checked the SteamApps folder, and the files where there, and looked to be intact. The entries in the game list are greyed out, and clicking the install button presumably starts the installation.

System Info:

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 2401 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    2 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Supported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported
    
Network Information:
    Network Speed:  
    
Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.7.0-4-generic
    X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server release:  11300902
    
Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GT 540M/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.19
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0xdf4
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  2
    Primary Display Resolution:  1366 x 768
    Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
    Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.64"  (15.51" diag)
                                            34.4cm x 19.4cm  (39.4cm diag)
    Primary VRAM: 2047 MB
    
Sound card:
    Audio device: Intel CougarPoint HDMI
    
Memory:
    RAM:  7880 Mb
    
Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_CA.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  32253 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  7348 Mb
    
Installed software:
    
Recent Failure Reports:
    

[SUSEd]

No no no! Its because Steam moved its folder from ~/Steam to ~/.local/share/Steam
Move your SteamApps folder there. Listen to me.

[SavvyWolf]

Yep, that seems to have worked. Symlinked the latter to the former and forced Steam to download itself again, and all my games are there! Yay!