SWTOR uninstall itself

[Tricksz]

my game uninstall itself when i restart my pc

[Giallombardo]

it's not uninstall itself, your pc restored itself to the last system backup your pc made and the backup is before you install the game

[Snake]

Originally posted by Giallombardo:

it's not uninstall itself, your pc restored itself to the last system backup your pc made and the backup is before you install the game

Are you sure? i think it just a common bug on steam. I had install 3 star wars game on steam and the next day one of the game uninstall itself. It sometimes happen to me too on another game. The only fix is just to install it again on existing directory folder.

[MightyJean]

Let me guess, you shut down your computer while Steam is still running, so Windows has to close Steam without letting it write all of its data on the disk. That's not a bug and the game doesn't uninstall itself (since files are still there).

[Giallombardo]

Originally posted by Lewis:

Originally posted by Giallombardo:

it's not uninstall itself, your pc restored itself to the last system backup your pc made and the backup is before you install the game

Are you sure? i think it just a common bug on steam. I had install 3 star wars game on steam and the next day one of the game uninstall itself. It sometimes happen to me too on another game. The only fix is just to install it again on existing directory folder.

i never knew this kind of problem exist on steam after all these years using it

[Tricksz]

Originally posted by MightyJean:

Let me guess, you shut down your computer while Steam is still running, so Windows has to close Steam without letting it write all of its data on the disk. That's not a bug and the game doesn't uninstall itself (since files are still there).

When i restart my pc only the launcher files still in the steamapps folder and the settings files still in the appdata/local folder

[Doom Sayer]

Originally posted by MightyJean:

Let me guess, you shut down your computer while Steam is still running, so Windows has to close Steam without letting it write all of its data on the disk. That's not a bug and the game doesn't uninstall itself (since files are still there).

How is this a reply? Its never happened to me at any point and I shutdown my pc without properly exiting steam twice a week. No im not op and i dont have the problem with it happening but i have seen this reply many times.

[MightyJean]

Steam uses text files (appmanifest_gameid.acf in the steamapps folder) to track installed games, games just can't uninstall themselves but Steam can loose track of them if the manifest is deleted or ends up corrupted somehow.

[SimplyRedie]

Killing Steam or closing Windows during installation/update tend to do that. Just install game in the same location and Steam will use existing files.

[Thander]

Originally posted by SimplyRedie:

Killing Steam or closing Windows during installation/update tend to do that. Just install game in the same location and Steam will use existing files.

Probably will require a full reinstall due to how Steam works with SWTOR now. Just how verifying files deletes all the game files right now. Steam only knows the launcher should be there. When installing the launcher, I think Steam makes sure folder is empty (deletes the contents). Only way around this would be keeping a copy of all the files in a backup folder, "reinstall" launcher from Steam, then copy the files back where they should be. No way to do this after the files have already been deleted though.

Edit: On second thought, I don't know enough how Steam works. I only know Steam verify tends to delete the SWTOR folder contents. Please ignore everything else I wrote.

[Doom Sayer]

Originally posted by Thander:

Originally posted by SimplyRedie:

Killing Steam or closing Windows during installation/update tend to do that. Just install game in the same location and Steam will use existing files.

Probably will require a full reinstall due to how Steam works with SWTOR now. Just how verifying files deletes all the game files right now. Steam only knows the launcher should be there. When installing the launcher, Steam first empties the folder. Only way around this would be keeping a copy of all the files in a backup folder. "Reinstall" launcher from Steam. Then copy the files back where they should be.

OR when steam forgets rename the swtor folder then reinstall then delete new swtor folder and rename old swtor folder to original name. That said i havent seen steam delete files it doesnt know about.

[-=EDF=- Kouta Seto]

i call bull**** on the OP here. Microsoft store has that error, Steam? Nope, using it since like when Red Orchestra, THE ORIGINAL FIRST ONE, came out, never encountered ANY problem, safe Valves not reading Laws in certain countries regarding censorship etc. good thing thats in the past now.

[Thander]

Originally posted by Degeneratus:

Originally posted by Thander:

Probably will require a full reinstall due to how Steam works with SWTOR now. Just how verifying files deletes all the game files right now. Steam only knows the launcher should be there. When installing the launcher, Steam first empties the folder. Only way around this would be keeping a copy of all the files in a backup folder. "Reinstall" launcher from Steam. Then copy the files back where they should be.

OR when steam forgets rename the swtor folder then reinstall then delete new swtor folder and rename old swtor folder to original name. That said i havent seen steam delete files it doesnt know about.

I only know for sure it does with "verify integrity of game cache" for SWTOR. I don't know if it does this for other games.

[Tricksz]

Originally posted by Thander:

Originally posted by Degeneratus:

OR when steam forgets rename the swtor folder then reinstall then delete new swtor folder and rename old swtor folder to original name. That said i havent seen steam delete files it doesnt know about.

I only know for sure it does with "verify integrity of game cache" for SWTOR. I don't know if it does this for other games.

I do a verification of the game cache just before so it might be what happened

[MightyJean]

Yeah, that's what happened. Don't verify files through Steam, there has been several threads about it, though none were pinned and thus ended in the abyss.

Steam only deals with the launcher installation and then the launcher does the heavy work so Steam doesn't know about most of the files. I'm pretty sure the launcher has a repair tool if you ever need one.