My games got "uncategorized".

[Pigeon]

Why would you do this? I can get used to the new look but leave the "My games" and "Friend's games" categories alone. Now I have to spend half an hour to make those manually.

[Gerdison]

Yes. Thats a shame. I've got over 2500 games without a category. That costs me again hours and hours.

[klepp0906]

2500. I wish. I have a couple shy of 20,000

all paired with artwork that no longer shows, and lumped into a single category.

literally amazed they didnt make categories transfer over.

years of my life gone to waste.

At least they saved me from years more. Steam is no longer gonna be my frontend. Shame.

[BloodShed]

Um let's try something with you guys.

In the client on the left side, under the search box is a drop down list.

in that list you should see the following:

Games
Software
Videos
Tools
-----------------
Group by Collection


Make sure 'Group by Collection' is checked.

[klepp0906]

appreciate the sentiment/attempt at help. Alas, the categories arent even there.

Ironically, theyre all there just fine in BPM. Im really unsure of what to do at this point.

[BloodShed]

Originally posted by klepp0906:

appreciate the sentiment/attempt at help. Alas, the categories arent even there.

Ironically, theyre all there just fine in BPM. Im really unsure of what to do at this point.

I find that odd.

I have a ton of categories and they all got migrated to the new library.

https://i.imgur.com/x3L6XGd.jpg


So I don't understand why yours don't appear in the client.

[Pigeon]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by klepp0906:

appreciate the sentiment/attempt at help. Alas, the categories arent even there.

Ironically, theyre all there just fine in BPM. Im really unsure of what to do at this point.

I find that odd.

I have a ton of categories and they all got migrated to the new library.

https://i.imgur.com/x3L6XGd.jpg


So I don't understand why yours don't appear in the client.

My categories got carried over but I was heavily relying on "My games" category because I was used to the order of games there, now it's all ♥♥♥♥♥♥. I'll be probably adjusting the collections for a few days then it's just a matter of getting used to the UI.

[Iron Phoenix]

Klep0906, Try the top left where the search bar says games - there is a tiny "play" icon inside a circle?
The tool tip mentions showing only games that are currently installed or ready to stream.


I found that clicking that at least restored my carefully organised game categories, so try that.

It seems the new update may defaults to some other random criteria for displaying the games instead and you need to over ride that choice by clicking the icon to revert to your prior list...



Anyway, I just updated to the new library and was horrified to see that it was listing all the games I had ever bought on Steam since I begun in 2005.
By default, and not in my preferred set categories I had been using for the past many years either so yeah.
That, plus the new lay out was quite the shock even with knowledge that the update would happen.

[red3814]

Mine didn't all my games got slapped into all category

[BloodShed]

Originally posted by red3814:

Mine didn't all my games got slapped into all category

Did you try what I mentioned in #3?

[red3814]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by red3814:

Mine didn't all my games got slapped into all category

Did you try what I mentioned in #3?

I have, unfortunately they seem to be gone and my library is a ~700 game mess

[BloodShed]

Originally posted by red3814:

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Did you try what I mentioned in #3?

I have, unfortunately they seem to be gone and my library is a ~700 game mess

Well you could try like in #4 and open Big Picture Mode and see if your categories are stil present there.

[red3814]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by red3814:

I have, unfortunately they seem to be gone and my library is a ~700 game mess

Well you could try like in #4 and open Big Picture Mode and see if your categories are stil present there.

They aren't there either. I don't think I have many options here, thanks for trying to help though

[BloodShed]

Originally posted by red3814:

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Well you could try like in #4 and open Big Picture Mode and see if your categories are stil present there.

They aren't there either. I don't think I have many options here, thanks for trying to help though

If it's any consolation the new dynamic collection at least makes recreating most if not all categories easier.

[Iron Phoenix]

Red, did you try this?

Try the top left where the search bar says games - there is a tiny "play" icon inside a circle?
The tool tip mentions showing only games that are currently installed or ready to stream.


I found that clicking that at least restored my carefully organised game categories.



Also you can disable the automatic "community" feeds in your library, reduce the size of the tiles and give a little better performance with the new options via Steam -- Settings -- Library.
Helps a little with the visual overload.

They are Low bandwidth mode, low performance mode, and display size for user interface elements.

[red3814]

I have done that, no difference. The dynamic collection is neat but I also cant tell whats mine and whats shared from friends