Steam Folder on D: drive is read only and write protected

[Timothy Dexter]

I need this to not be the case so that I can actually delete files. Any game I delete on the program of steam shows that it is now uninstalled and must be downloaded but in file manager the game is still its own folder and taking up space.
If I try to remove the "read only" check in the box under the steam folder properties it then says that the folder is write protected, so i need a way to remove either of these things.This is also only an issue on my D: drive, my C: drive lets me delete files as I please

[Tristin]

Originalmente postado por Timothy Dexter BASED:

Steam Folder on D: drive is read only and write protected

I need this to not be the case so that I can actually delete files. Any game I delete on the program of steam shows that it is now uninstalled and must be downloaded but in file manager the game is still its own folder and taking up space.
If I try to remove the "read only" check in the box under the steam folder properties it then says that the folder is write protected, so i need a way to remove either of these things.This is also only an issue on my D: drive, my C: drive lets me delete files as I please

You should still be able to delete it. If you cannot, it either means that the said files are in use, or that you don't have the permissions. Reboot and try deleting again. It could be caused by 'Controlled folder access' in Windows Securities, that you may try to temporarily remove. If still don't work, you could try giving yourself Full Control. And if that doesn't work, boot in safe-mode to delete it.

[Timothy Dexter]

I have tried both deleting the files with steam completely closed, so I assume nothing was in use, as well as checking that I am the admin, which I am, on this computer.

And if that doesn't work, boot in safe-mode to delete it. [/quote]

I have also tried deleting the files in safe mode, and I think I did it right. I opened safe mode correctly, then opened CMD panel, used the command "/del /f /q /a" as per the video I watched. "/f" being for force delete and q/a being for something else but as far as I know still useful to the command. All I got back was "media is write protected".
Do you have any other suggestions? Or know of a way to contact steam, I checked all their help issue trees and nothing is relevant to my issue so I never sent one in there, and the email I contacted just told me to go back to the help tree.

[Wolfpig]

Have you recently switched PCs and took that drive over from the old one?
Then it might be a permission problem that the folders are registered to the old user and need to "given" to the current one.

[Knee]

I know I’ve had trouble with permissions on my D: drive but those have been mostly resolved by modifying folder permissions in the folder properties window.

[lx]

for a starter, steam did not do that, you did it. find out what you did to your pc and tell us more.

[Timothy Dexter]

Originalmente postado por lx:

for a starter, steam did not do that, you did it. find out what you did to your pc and tell us more.

I would love to tell you what I did to my computer to make this happen but if I knew I would be tracing my steps backwards to undo it already, I just assumed steam did that because steam made their own folder on my D: drive to download things, I had no other input besides allowing steam to recognize the drive so it could make downloads onto it.

Originalmente postado por Knee:

I know I’ve had trouble with permissions on my D: drive but those have been mostly resolved by modifying folder permissions in the folder properties window.

Did you do anything prior to modifying the permissions because I have tried this too. In my initial post I explained that I got a "write protected" error blocking me from changing the folder to not be read only. Did you not get this error or is there another step you took to get around the folder being write protected.

[SKARDAVNELNATE]

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Reboot to safe mode
Reset permissions

[lx]

Originalmente postado por Timothy Dexter BASED:

... what I did ... if I knew...

are you plugging and unplugging devices? your D: might be changed to another device.
can you make a new file on D:?
run disk management(right click on start) and see what is D: and if there is a problem. dont do in there, if you dont understand, just look.