I am about to yank my hair out (SOLVED)

[Vex Hilarius]

I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FIXED MY PROBLEM THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED :)

[Belanos]

If you already own a Steam game, you don't need to buy it again just to reinstall it. You can download the game as many times as you want.

[Vex Hilarius]

Originally posted by Belanos:

If you already own a Steam game, you don't need to buy it again just to reinstall it. You can download the game as many times as you want.

Thats not the problem though i cant download it thats the issue.

[Knight Siegfried]

Originally posted by Trauma:

Originally posted by Belanos:

If you already own a Steam game, you don't need to buy it again just to reinstall it. You can download the game as many times as you want.

Thats not the problem though i cant download it thats the issue.

Are you the only user on the computer? It sounds like your account does not have required permissions

[Vex Hilarius]

Originally posted by Hollow Knight Dante:

Originally posted by Trauma:

Thats not the problem though i cant download it thats the issue.

Are you the only user on the computer? It sounds like your account does not have required permissions

yes i am. no one else uses it

[Knight Siegfried]

Originally posted by Trauma:

Originally posted by Hollow Knight Dante:

Are you the only user on the computer? It sounds like your account does not have required permissions

yes i am. no one else uses it

Have you tried to start steam via admin? Just right click steam on your taskbar, right click the exe then select run as Admin.

[Vex Hilarius]

Originally posted by Hollow Knight Dante:

Originally posted by Trauma:

yes i am. no one else uses it

Have you tried to start steam via admin? Just right click steam on your taskbar, right click the exe then select run as Admin.

did that and still nothing.

I dont mod really and messed up some files i guess. I think thats my problem. I must have deleted i file that messed up my game so now i cant install it.

[Vex Hilarius]

Originally posted by Hollow Knight Dante:

Originally posted by Trauma:

yes i am. no one else uses it

Have you tried to start steam via admin? Just right click steam on your taskbar, right click the exe then select run as Admin.

heres the exact message that comes up once i click "install" on fallout 3 goty:

"An error occured while updating Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition (missing file privileges) :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\downloading\22370

[Craftian]

If it's not an issue that is being caused by admin privileges, pirated files or user accounts, try one of the suggestions below. You should also submit a refund request as soon as possible, because it has nothing to do with your version of the game. (There's no point wasting your money for the same thing, unless you don't already have the DLCs.)

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/154641879453820749/

[Baby_Cookie[WOLF]]

Originally posted by Craftian:

If it's not an issue that is being caused by admin privileges, pirated files or user accounts, try one of the suggestions below. You should also submit a refund request as soon as possible, because it has nothing to do with your version of the game. (There's no point wasting your money for the same thing, unless you don't already have the DLCs.)

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/154641879453820749/

well first off i second that

refund the second game !!!!
every copy is the exact same ( yours, mine, everyone on here ... we all download the same masterfiles ) so having 2 instances of the exact same is utterly pointless :p


as for you being afraid
you can't mess up gamefiles, steam always downlaods form the masterfile, which you can't touch no matter what
so every download is a clean one regardless
( same goes for verification, where steam just adjust what is altered back to the way it is in the masterfile )

if you delete somethign by mistake then steam is going to readjust the files to a working state regardless

so no fear there
this is on eihter your os deciding you are locked out of writing to somewhere ( aka having your priviledges as admin revoked for some reason )
or
steam having some wonky issue in where it is convinced it can't write to somewhere

neither of those are something you can invoke by just "deleting gamefiles" :)
you have to go and destory actual os files for that to happen on intend and i'll assume you didn't to that :p



other then that

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have you already restarted your pc ? and then run steam as "admin"
as simple as that is.... never deny the basics :p

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how did you uninstall it ?
by clicking 'delete local content" under the options of the game as they are given inside the steam library

if not, do so and then try reinstalling again

although technically it shouldn't be an issue but there are instances in which steam is convinced you have it installed but not really ( ? ) and then gets upset you want to do smoething pointless an becomes an ass ( yeah, i know it's stupid :p )

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-Exit Steam

-Delete whole game file from /steamlibrary ( under steamapps/common/fallout3 )( just destroy that entire folder and manually hunt down remnants like the savesfolder in "games" )

-Open Steam(*AS ADMIN*)

-Delete Local Content of the game (through steam)

-Make a fresh download on a new Drive ( especially this, if your os restricted you for soem reason chances are you can still write to a secondary drive... it's 2017 wether it be laptop or desktop you should by default have multiple harddrives ( i'll assume ) )

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and last resort ( and by god i hope you never need this )
kick the entire living crap out of steam

just erase it form existence from your entire pc

then reinstall the entire thing from nothing

and go trough reinstalling all your games ( after you obviously made a lot of backups of clientsided crap if they were to need it )

steam is just a ui, the account holds the games ( not the ui ) so regardless of where and on what version of the ui you log in... your games will always be there ready to install as long as it's your account :)
so don't fear losing anything ^^

..... steam once got stuck in an eternal loop of updating for me
where it was convinced it had to update but it already updated, so it then figured it didn't need to update but couldn't convince itself to stop either way --- making it endless

i now have a folder called steam with some stray files in it as they couldn't delete for some reason and a folder called "steam new" that actually houses the current steam
took me 2 days and a couple of reinstalls from scratch to convince it to stop :p

so i hope you can fix it without this ^^

[SuperDean]

missing file privaleges eh?
the easyest way to fix that is just restart your computer