help steam deleted my games for no reason .

[Nuriyokan]

Before anyone tell me to let it scan my drives ... I downloaded a game last night . I was playing my game a few hours ago. The game is not in my trash bin and i didn't delete it. The game was just here . I logged out of steam and logged back in and now the game is gone. I checked steam / steamapps / common and not just that game is gone . Multiple games are gone. The big game says " update " but its trying to download another 150gb of space . I know that it shows you two bars one green and one blue . Green is it reading existing files from the disk , the blue is it downloading from the network.

When i browse files .... it shows the game folder with only a few kilobytes in it . It's trying to redownload my games and i have all of the original space back on my drives . The game is actually deleted but i didn't delete it ....

I'm going to try to use the software called recuva to recover the files . My PC has not been restarted . I've added no new files and i haven't downloaded anything else . I know that when you delete files they're not really gone.

Question : Where does steam put games when they delete the game ? Your trash bin ? Some random place on your drive ? My trash been has 3 items in it and they're txt fles I wrote from 3 days ago . All i did was log out and log back into steam and now my games are gone ... this makes no sense .

I'm going to try recuva program on my steam folder for the games install and try to put it back into the game folder and let steam find most of the files .

150gb shouldn't just magically disappear WTF STEAM !

[Wolfpig]

If you delete a game with steam... Then it gets deleted from the disc.
No temporary delete into a trashbin.

Such stuff often happens when external drives are used and the client is not properly closed at shutdown or drives get removed or added before closing/starting the client.

[Nuriyokan]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If you delete a game with steam... Then it gets deleted from the disc.
No temporary delete into a trashbin.

Such stuff often happens when external drives are used and the client is not properly closed at shutdown or drives get removed or added before closing/starting the client.

I have internal drives . I never deleted anything ... I just logged out of steam and logged back in and now suddenly there is no game on my disc anymore ...

[pckirk]

Originally posted by Nuriyokan:

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If you delete a game with steam... Then it gets deleted from the disc.
No temporary delete into a trashbin.

Such stuff often happens when external drives are used and the client is not properly closed at shutdown or drives get removed or added before closing/starting the client.

I have internal drives . I never deleted anything ... I just logged out of steam and logged back in and now suddenly there is no game on my disc anymore ...

Steam can not delete or remove game files without human interaction on the pc in question. Not a Steam problem or issue.

[ShelLuser]

Steam doesn't even delete removed or expired products... Back in the good ole days I grabbed a whole anime series from Steam; my all-time favorite series Ghost in the Shell which I already had on DVD, but now also have available on my all-time favorite gaming platform.

As you probably know Steam no longer sells such video licenses; the whole "media market" has been discontinued a few years ago. It's been 4 years since I last watched some episodes, but they're all still available in my library (and online) to this very same day.

The only difference and I suppose a bit of a bummer is it's now provided online and also played through my browser, so it doesn't show up anymore on Steam itself as me watching.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2142035495
Pictures or it didn't happen, eh? ;)

Bottom line: Steam doesn't delete stuff "just like that".

[Nuriyokan]

This ♥♥♥♥ makes no sense . I downloaded the game last night , played the game today . Simply logged out to take a shower . I came back and logged into steam and several of my games are deleted . They’re not even on the hdd when you browse files they’re just gone for not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason . My other files are just fine . The only games missing are just a few random steam games but not all and they’re all on the same disc .... this makes no sense .

[Covarde]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If you delete a game with steam... Then it gets deleted from the disc.
No temporary delete into a trashbin.

Such stuff often happens when external drives are used and the client is not properly closed at shutdown or drives get removed or added before closing/starting the client.

nice resp

[mldb88]

I'd check to see if the path to your folder where the games are stored is still recognized by steam. Sometimes if you use an external drive or after an update, the path saved in the client kind of just gets dropped for some reason. Go to Settings, Storage, and make sure the folder path to the steam library you saved the game to is listed. If not, click the drop down, click add drive, and re-link it to where the steam folder is.

[Nuriyokan]

Originally posted by mldb88:

I'd check to see if the path to your folder where the games are stored is still recognized by steam. Sometimes if you use an external drive or after an update, the path saved in the client kind of just gets dropped for some reason. Go to Settings, Storage, and make sure the folder path to the steam library you saved the game to is listed. If not, click the drop down, click add drive, and re-link it to where the steam folder is.

I already stated this in my post ... the files are not there I already checked . The folders were empty .

[Nuriyokan]

This is probably going to bug me for a few days until I find out why it happened . Something is wrong .... glitch ? Hard drive issue ? Or logging out while it was writing to the disk ? Something happened but I don’t understand how you log out of steam with games fully intact then come back and the games are just uninstalled upon logging back in .

[SLG]

I have not read the whole topic, but did you look under the hidden filter in your library to see if they are there?

[Shargash]

>logged out of steam to take a shower
>doesn't know about the quantum gnomes in 2024
ngmi bro, leave an offering of nuts and berries on your mousepad next time

[Callahan420]

Was the PC sleeping or hibernating when you came back from the shower?

Do you use one drive or have steam startup with windows?

[Nuriyokan]

Originally posted by Lee:

I have not read the whole topic, but did you look under the hidden filter in your library to see if they are there?

This is why you gave this response ...... you should have read the whole topic .

[Nuriyokan]

Originally posted by Ayatollah Gazan Almalik Ibn Bibi:

>logged out of steam to take a shower
>doesn't know about the quantum gnomes in 2024
ngmi bro, leave an offering of nuts and berries on your mousepad next time

You have humor and I’m willing to bet you’re a chill person.

[Nuriyokan]

Originally posted by Callahan420:

Was the PC sleeping or hibernating when you came back from the shower?

Do you use one drive or have steam startup with windows?

Yes is was hibernating when I came back . Hell no I don’t use one drive and I left windows as a whole a week ago .