New "Steam" adds a "Downloads" folder to the "Documents" folder every time it is opened.

[Xendrane]

Other than this, I do not give a damn about new "Steam".

[FHarbor]

yeah same, just noticed it
but why is it there?

[RiO]

Originally posted by FHarbor:

yeah same, just noticed it
but why is it there?

Probably because whatever monkeys Valve hired to program this turd are woefully out-of-date on the available special profile folders in Windows and they're using a hard-coded /Downloads path inside the profile's documents special folder - rather than the dedicated downloads special folder.

Probably it's a mechanism for some kind of content download, somewhere.
Steam has a similar /Music/Steam folder it keeps recreating, even if you explicitly remove that folder from Steam's music libraries.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Spawk:

Originally posted by RiO:

Probably because whatever monkeys Valve hired to program this turd are woefully out-of-date on the available special profile folders in Windows and they're using a hard-coded /Downloads path inside the profile's documents special folder - rather than the dedicated downloads special folder.

Luckily you're in a perfect position to fix this.

https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/jobs?job_id=14

Yeah; no thanks. I've done my fair part of looking under the hood using browser dev tools to inspect screw-ups when certain features on Steam's storefront or community forums randomly broke. If you come across errors such as JavaScript variables being non-defined, you know you're dealing with an immature environment which isn't using the proper tooling to prevent that type of crap from hitting production.

[Von-Reaper]

I really don't like that folder there when we already have a dedicated folder for this in our files.
This is a odd thing that unerves me

[jorel91023]

Oh...!! I noticed that myself and was wondering wth it came from.

[Antaiir]

That happens, when you hire wannabe developers that never heard about things like "environment variables".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable

[IonAphis]

This is really annoying because I use my Documents folder to sync to Google Drive, which already has a bunch of files and documents. So Google Sync thinks I want to download all that stuff locally. When I delete the folder from the local Documents folder, it deletes the stuiff in my Google Drive... Has been pretty annoying to even find out it was Steam doing this.. please fix this issue, it's a useless "feature".

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Probably prepping for changes to how the DL system works later on.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Probably prepping for changes to how the DL system works later on.

:qr:

Jesus I hope not.

I do NOT want them there. I want them in the Steam folder, period. My Documents is already littered with game stuff, that I also don't want there. I want... MY work. I'm an artist and writer, I only want MY stuff in those areas, so yeah this is going to continue to be a problem :/

[Satoru]

This is fixed in the steam client beta

[RiO]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Probably prepping for changes to how the DL system works later on.

:qr:

That would've been silly.

Not even Valve would be stupid enough to download game executables to a centralized folder that only needs basic logged in user permissions to have write access. Not after the huge security stink with the Steam service, when news broke that it had essentially held a huge backdoor for system-level permission elevation - for years on end even.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Probably prepping for changes to how the DL system works later on.

:qr:

It was just a bug that's already been fixed in the latest client beta

[Charlie Foxtrot]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Probably prepping for changes to how the DL system works later on.

:qr:

Jesus I hope not.

I do NOT want them there. I want them in the Steam folder, period. My Documents is already littered with game stuff, that I also don't want there. I want... MY work. I'm an artist and writer, I only want MY stuff in those areas, so yeah this is going to continue to be a problem :/

I hear it's a bug but that would be a BS move, especially since I run windows OS on an SSD and its own partition on the SSD. That drive would fill up faster than an escapee at a gas station

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Charlie Foxtrot:

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Jesus I hope not.

I do NOT want them there. I want them in the Steam folder, period. My Documents is already littered with game stuff, that I also don't want there. I want... MY work. I'm an artist and writer, I only want MY stuff in those areas, so yeah this is going to continue to be a problem :/

I hear it's a bug but that would be a BS move, especially since I run windows OS on an SSD and its own partition on the SSD. That drive would fill up faster than an escapee at a gas station

Steam used to only stage files to be writeen out where steam was installed

However steam moved from this, and now downloads and staging of files takes place in the library location whre the game is going to be installed

It hardlyl makes sense they would move downloads to my documents

In any case I generallky keep my documents on a mirrored raid array anyway for redudancy

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Havent been on the PC all day. Had to look at the patch notes.