Deleted Workshop Content should remain installed locally in Wallpaper Engine.

[VectorMane]

I find it extremely bothersome to subscribe to something you love so much, but when it gets taken down from the workshop, wallpaper engine just decides to delete it from your local files too, which is honestly a very terrible idea.

I suggest allowing deleted workshop content that you downloaded and installed remain in your local files, even after the workshop item is deleted. BUT, if it was deleted in violation of TOS, it should still remain in your local files, but blacklisted from being uploaded.

I've had at least 20 items in the past that I really liked get deleted from my local files because the workshop item was deleted/banned, which is truly sad and really annoying to me.

[Biohazard]

I'm afraid it is not Wallpaper Engine that does this.

Steam does this and it's the same for all games that support Workshop on Steam, we really can't do anything about this directly, we are not the developers of Steam. You should send this feedback to Valve, because yes, we agree absolutely, but Valve needs to hear this from everyone who doesn't like this too.

This is the best we can do from our end: https://help.wallpaperengine.io/en/steam/backup.html

[VectorMane]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

I'm afraid it is not Wallpaper Engine that does this.

Steam does this and it's the same for all games that support Workshop on Steam, we really can't do anything about this directly, we are not the developers of Steam. You should send this feedback to Valve, because yes, we agree absolutely, but Valve needs to hear this from everyone who doesn't like this too.

This is the best we can do from our end: https://help.wallpaperengine.io/en/steam/backup.html

Ah, ok. I wasn't really sure if it was a Wallpaper Engine thing or a Valve thing.

[EmperorWSA]

Is this a new change? I had a video wallpaper that had been deleted from the workshop, but when I searched the my local workshop for *.mp4 I found it and was able to add it as a local file. It would be nice to have a place holder or something to let you know something had been removed. Backing up the entire workshop can take a TON of space depending on what you have.

[Biohazard]

Originally posted by EmperorWSA:

Is this a new change? I had a video wallpaper that had been deleted from the workshop, but when I searched the my local workshop for *.mp4 I found it and was able to add it as a local file. It would be nice to have a place holder or something to let you know something had been removed. Backing up the entire workshop can take a TON of space depending on what you have.

No, Steam has been working like this since even before Wallpaper Engine existed. Steam just tells Wallpaper Engine that you are not subscribed to that file anymore.

[EmperorWSA]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

Originally posted by EmperorWSA:

Is this a new change? I had a video wallpaper that had been deleted from the workshop, but when I searched the my local workshop for *.mp4 I found it and was able to add it as a local file. It would be nice to have a place holder or something to let you know something had been removed. Backing up the entire workshop can take a TON of space depending on what you have.

No, Steam has been working like this since even before Wallpaper Engine existed. Steam just tells Wallpaper Engine that you are not subscribed to that file anymore.

Thanks for answering. I edited my original just before you replied, so I will move it here.

Acutally. Would there be a way to transfer them from workshop to local? It would be great if it would take them out of being modified. I am sure that others have disappeared on me and I didnt realize. The one I referenced above was in a Dead Or Alive playlist, and I noticed it was skipping one. I think it still showed up in the list at the time since I had not reloaded it. After I changed them around, I noticed it was missing one, and that triggered the search.

[Biohazard]

Yes, I posted a link on how to back them up in my first reply.

[EmperorWSA]

Yea I did see that. However, I tried this with a few test cases. It works fine if they are in the root. I try to keep wallpapers organized and in categories. I moved one that I had in a favorites folder inside of Wallpaper Engine. After moving it into the projects, it was considered a brand new wallpaper, and lost its organization. Is there something I did wrong here?

That was why I was thinking more of a check box or something in each of the wallpapers themselves that could change it to a local wallaper, that way I wouldnt have to reorganize it AGAIN. Have the program itself handle the move. I would think it could also keep the original uploader linked to the file.

[Biohazard]

Originally posted by EmperorWSA:

Yea I did see that. However, I tried this with a few test cases. It works fine if they are in the root. I try to keep wallpapers organized and in categories. I moved one that I had in a favorites folder inside of Wallpaper Engine. After moving it into the projects, it was considered a brand new wallpaper, and lost its organization. Is there something I did wrong here?

That was why I was thinking more of a check box or something in each of the wallpapers themselves that could change it to a local wallaper, that way I wouldnt have to reorganize it AGAIN. Have the program itself handle the move. I would think it could also keep the original uploader linked to the file.

That's how it's supposed to work, yes. Wallpaper Engine uses absolute file paths for everything so those are identified as new wallpapers.

I understand it would be nice to make this easier, but that's just taking this a bit too far I'm afraid. Most of the time that something is removed, then it should stay removed, because it was illegal to begin with and obviously we do not want to facilitate sharing illegal files directly from the program. Sometimes creators remove their content just because they want to do that even though nothing was illegal, and that's what's really unfortunate. There is no way for us to differentiate this however, so right now this is as much as we can do.

[EmperorWSA]

Sounds good. I was afraid that was what the situation was. Thanks for taking the time to respond. You guys have a great program.