Can steam stop deleting my games

[Alex]

like i turned it off then on several hours later and my games are gone

[Iceira]

With 3000+ games im sure you have the experience with whats wrong here.

[Crazy Tiger]

Games appearing as uninstalled are usually caused by:
- Not properly closing Steam or letting Steam sync;
- Using an external drive that either isn't connected when Steam launches or gets disconnected before Steam is properly closed.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

If you use external drive, or extra internal drive you need to ensure they're ready to read before you launch Steam, if the drivers are in sleep mode, or inactive, Steam may not be able to interact with it right away which is the problem as Steam client searches for games appmanifest .act file, if it fails to see your game file it think it uninstalled, the game files will still be there just not detected.

To fix this either relaunch Steam, or readd Steam folder to the settings on Steam client.

Let say you have C, and D drive as example, you installed Steam on C drive, but it has problem seeing D drive for your other games you installed on it to fix this, rename Steamapp folder on D drive to Steamapp0, now open Steam settings for library management, if you see it saying there a folder for D drive right click remove it, now add new Steamapp folder in same place, once done shutdown Steam, go to D drive delete new Steamapp folder, and name back the steamapp0 back to Steamapp, now launch Steam it will redetect your games again.

[Alex]

Thanks everyone for your help but I always wait few minutes after game closed to close steam. Some of the deleted games wasnt touched for few days. I have plenty of space on both disks (where i have steam and games separately installed)

[Alex]

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

With 3000+ games im sure you have the experience with whats wrong here.

I know. These are rookie numbers

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Check my post, I provided a fix if client fails to see game when you launch client.

[Iceira]

im not so sure whats going on with external disk , i dont have issue with them anymore, its a DAS ( NAS server and game is still there, even after a reboot , steam seem to have fix something. ) its like storage management accept disk is off now. lets see what other steam user have discover this also.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Max Caulfield:

like i turned it off then on several hours later and my games are gone

Find out why your drive is failing.

[Alex]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by Max Caulfield:

like i turned it off then on several hours later and my games are gone

Find out why your drive is failing.

its not. its only 3 year old. and why other games are still there?

[Iceira]

Other idea, be sure this is not a Filter issue, show installed and recent only, i have even install a game that was not activated as recent so it dont show on filter selected list.

[Alex]

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

Other idea, be sure this is not a Filter issue, show installed and recent only, i have even install a game that was not activated as recent so it dont show on filter selected list.

its not. the button was Install not Play. Im dumb but not that dumb

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Max Caulfield:

Thanks everyone for your help but I always wait few minutes after game closed to close steam. Some of the deleted games wasnt touched for few days. I have plenty of space on both disks (where i have steam and games separately installed)

By close you mean Exit, using any of the 3 ways to do that, and NOT just hitting the cross in the top-right like you'd close a Web browser?

[Alex]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Originally posted by Max Caulfield:

Thanks everyone for your help but I always wait few minutes after game closed to close steam. Some of the deleted games wasnt touched for few days. I have plenty of space on both disks (where i have steam and games separately installed)

By close you mean Exit, using any of the 3 ways to do that, and NOT just hitting the cross in the top-right like you'd close a Web browser?

By close i mean exit in the upper left corner under Steam list

[Alex]

Steam again forgot where i have games installed

[Callahan420]

Do you have Steam launch on Windows startup?