Unable to upload screenshots

[Billy Fiddler]

I understand that this is a persistent topic that keeps coming up but nobody ever seems to have an answer other than keep trying to upload screenshots. Anybody found a fix?

[Tev]

Is it only some specific screenshots that fail to upload?

As in, if you go in game now and take a screenshot, does it or does it not upload successfully?

[Billy Fiddler]

none of my screenshots upload apart from one, and the only screenshot that does upload was taken last year, where as more recent screenshots do not upload

[Tev]

Originally posted by RED:

none of my screenshots upload apart from one, and the only screenshot that does upload was taken last year, where as more recent screenshots do not upload

So, could you take a screenshot now and try that?

Perhaps some file corruption has taken place somewhere.

[Billy Fiddler]

Yes i can it works perfectly

is it possible to upload a screenshot from outside of of the screenshot manager, as i know the file isnt corrupt and i also have a copy of the screenshot i would like to upload

[Tev]

There technically is,

How to Upload Animated Screenshots 

A Guide for Steam

By: ABI TALENT

This guide explains how to upload GIF and PNG files as Steam screenshots. This guide is also the quickest method for uploading custom screenshots.

Personally I'd probably just open said screenshot in Paint (Navigate via Screenshot Manager: [Show on disk]). On Paint, click Save as and make another copy.

Name it based on its modification date (under Properties), i.e. October 11th, 2017 20:02 (+38 seconds) would be 20171011200238_1.jpg and place it under the game's screenshots\ -folder.

Make a copy of that file and plant that in screenshots\thumbnails. Right mouse click the screenshot -> Rename -> copy its name to clipboard.

Restart Steam, open up the Screenshot Manager, filter to the game and it should eventually load the new screenshot in. Now, because you can't immediately upload the screenshot (it will come with errors.)

Alternative A
Make yet another copy of the screenshot with the only difference being the _vr suffix. For example to compare to the prior:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\124698146\760\remote\%appID%\screenshots\20171011200238_1_vr.jpg

You should be able to upload the screenshot after that.

Alternative B
Exit Steam (Top left: [Steam > Exit]), go to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\124698146\760\

Open up the screenshots.vdf with WordPad

You might have to wait for a bit for all of the data to load.

[CTRL] + [F] and paste (so that the file name goes as search inquiry). Press [Enter]

Remove what's written on the vrfilename -line. So that it's written like this:

			"vrfilename"		""

Save the changes [CTRL] + [S]

Restart Steam and you should be able to upload the screenshot now.

[Billy Fiddler]

thanks ill give this a try

[Syllek™]

The last one did it for me, although I had to do a major workaround method because the game I was trying to upload screenshots from doesn't work with the overlay for me (Elite Dangerous). So I ended up having to take a bunch of screenshots in another game. Copy them into the folder for elite, then edit them with MS paint and paste in the photos I wanted and save them. Renamed them all and deleted everything out of the thumbnail folder so it would match. Then edit the screenshots.vdf file and everything finally worked.

[Xayan]

I've found a simpler solution: instead of copying files or editing them, you can just rename them. So if you have, say, "20201210123233_1.jpg" rename it to "20201210123234_1.jpg" (in this case I've incremented the number of seconds by 1). Do the same with the thumbnail. Restart Steam. You should then have one invalid screenshot you can delete and a new one that will be possible to upload.

If anyone's interested, this is the screenshot I had an issue with:

Cyberpunk 2077 

A Screenshot of Cyberpunk 2077

By: Xayan

[ᴾᴬᵀ]

My God how is this still a thing! Mine will randomly fail for no reason whatso ever. I'm trying to upload some Chernobylite screenshots as I write this - every single one is failing. I've restarted Steam, restarted my computer, tried to upload private only etc..

Unreal.

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.