App Manifests

[geekspeak]

My issue is that I accidentally deleted about 170 of my app manifests and so steam no longer updates 98% of my games. If I install/verify my games, the game is deleted and is reinstalled. Is there a Steam supported solution? Is there any solution that doesn't include me going through every single game's manifest?

[Cathulhu]

No. You aren't supposed to touch those files in the first place.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Steam needs those files. Deleting them triggers a full download again.

[geekspeak]

@Cathulhu
I deleted them because Steam wouldn't allow me to update the games at all due to a "Disk write error". Some solutions I found said to do that but I trusted the wrong forums.

[Cathulhu]

Can't you restore them from the recycle bin?

[geekspeak]

I emptied it.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You are SOL then.

[geekspeak]

Hey man, I know I’m dumb, I just want to get around downloading everything again.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You can no longer do that now. Once you emptied your bin, that was it.

[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by Loosra:

Hey man, I know I’m dumb, I just want to get around downloading everything again.

And there is no such way now. You removed every possibility in doing so.

[geekspeak]

Alright, thanks for the help, it is at least closure.

[geekspeak]

Well in case anyone every comes back to this, wondering what actually happened, I managed to fix this by following the instructions here. It didn't give me all of my programs, no, but it turned me from having 7 of 192 to 163 of 192. I hope this helps anyone that needs it.
https://github.com/ChiefIntegrator/Steam-GetOnTop

[cat ears heroinspoon]

Originally posted by geekspeak:

Well in case anyone every comes back to this, wondering what actually happened, I managed to fix this by following the instructions here. It didn't give me all of my programs, no, but it turned me from having 7 of 192 to 163 of 192. I hope this helps anyone that needs it.
https://github.com/ChiefIntegrator/Steam-GetOnTop

thanks, the other people were a bit unhinged but thanks a lot for saving my life with this!