Game files disappearing

[Dio.enn]

I suddenly got logged out of steam, then when i logged in, warframe is missing from my library. I did not uninstall it and the shortcut for it is still in my desktop. It said the whole 30gb of data needed to be downloaded. What happened?

[ack0329]

Another CLEAR EXAMPLE ... for lack of better words ... "An Intentional Steam Glitch"

I wish I could be of more help!

Things like THIS are VERY COMMON in the Steam Forums!!!

VERY COMMON!

Good Luck!

[voidCaster]

Escrito originalmente por Niko-sama:

I suddenly got logged out of steam, then when i logged in, warframe is missing from my library. I did not uninstall it and the shortcut for it is still in my desktop. It said the whole 30gb of data needed to be downloaded. What happened?

If you aren't aware of it, you can actually filter games in your Library. Just open up the Steam Client and HOVER (don't click) on Library. The first item in the dropdown is GAMES which shows you all your games, installed or not - do left click once on that. If that doesn't show Warframe in the game list...

Look for a directory called Warframe in: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common

If it's there, then look inside that Warframe directory and see if there are any files.

DISCLAIMER: Lots of folks customize their Windows installation drive so it isn't C:\, and lots of folks customize their Steam Installation so it isn't in either of the Program Files directories. You can also customize your game data directory so the path given above may just be wrong. If you customized anything with your computer, though, you should be able to find the steam installation dir and the game data dir easily on your own.

I suppose you could also just RIGHT-click once on that Warframe desktop icon, LEFT-click Properties in the dropdown, and then in the Shortcut's property pages you'll either have 2 rows of tabs and then you click the tab labeled "Shortcut" and the button labeled "Open File Location" or else you'll have 1 row of tabs. If you have 1 row of tabs just click the Cancel button because it won't be helpful at all.

Anyway, if the Warframe directory is in the game data directory, and if that Warframe dir contains files and directories of its own, then either Steam glitched or else you may have some hard drive corruption and you need to run diagnostics.

As for Warframe not even showing up in your Library, if the first suggestion in this post didn't help (just looking at your Library unfiltered) then I'm not really sure if Steam tracks installed games by using the Windows Registry or by using its own database somewhere in that %STEAM% directory tree. I think if Warframe was in the library and now it isn't, then it's more likely hard drive failure of some sort than Steam software bug or glitch.

If that first suggestion didn't turn Warframe up in that Library list view, then all the rest of this is just aimed at determining whether you may have real computer or component malfunction or whether Steam just has a software glitch. If the directory is there and contains files and directories, then all I can recommend is redownloading - if not then you need to run HDD diagnostics on whatever drive or drives Steam is installed on and also whatever drive(s) the game data resides on (which will be the same if you just let it install using its own defaults).