Micro SD stuck in read only mode

[Luke Hatsune]

I believe my Micro SD card got stuck in read only mode about 1 or two updates ago. This all started after my Steam deck automatically updated itself and now every time I uninstall or install a game the uninstalled game gets reinstalled after a restart and the installed game is no longer installed. Anyway to fix that?

[Clone303]

it most be the SD card there is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, i had SD card for my phone, i could almost delete eveything on it and next time it had everything again soo the card was dead in a way but maybe other know a fix for it for i sadly dont

[zBeeble]

I had an SD card for a tablet that did this, too. The Linux OS would cache what it had recently done (deleted the files) ... so you only see the files reappear after a reboot (which flushes the cache). Was a Sandisk SD card, too.

urm... you can open a shell on desktop mode and cd into /run/media/mmcblk0p1/steamapps/common and "rm -r <directory>" there ... then reboot. Make sure you put the directory name in double quotes ... since that command won't respect spaces or odd characters.

... after you reboot, re-open a shell and go there again ... if the directory is there, you've eliminated almost all of the steamdeck software and just used linux to delete the game. It might not delete things in ~/.local --- but you can always re-install the game later and then try re-removing it to get those files.

Anyways... _if_ you have a linux box, you could also do this by plugging into a linux box --- but it is very likely you've got an SSD that is refusing writes. I think they do that once they run out of spare blocks... and I don't think there's any recovering from it.

[Lordere]

I'll necro this thread because I wasn't able to figure anything straight away from reddit or steam forums .

Pre-req:
root or user account set with password on steamdeck

Basically I ran this on the steamdeck after unmounting the sd card:
sudo fsck.ext4 -f /dev/[device]
Then accept all the prompts with y or a
[device] in my case is mmcblk0p1 which is listed in the KDE partition manager

Rebooted my Pc running Ubuntu and the sd card could be written on again

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