Can't select other hard drive as a steam library location

[lennythewicked]

I have multiple hard drives and steam by default installed to my C drive, which is a 225GB SSD. I want it to install games and such on my D drive, which is 1TB. But when I try to select the other drive in my steam library it doesn't actually give me any option to add it, it lets me select the drop down and mark "choose another drive" and doesn't save it.

What do I do here?

[crunchyfrog]

Well it obviously should.

So are these external USB drives at all? If they are, you should NEVER EVER use sleep mode and always start your PC properly.

Next when the drives are recognised under windows, THEN you start Steam. They will show up properly then (or should).

Also make sure you have no power savings settings on either.

[lennythewicked]

Aight, I realized it was just the UI; I couldn't see the scroll bar and had to scroll down to the "add" button. It should be working now.

[Stryder]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Well it obviously should.

So are these external USB drives at all? If they are, you should NEVER EVER use sleep mode and always start your PC properly.

Next when the drives are recognised under windows, THEN you start Steam. They will show up properly then (or should).

Also make sure you have no power savings settings on either.

I am having the same issue as the poster, windows recognizes the drive (it's an internal ssd) and I have migrated other files to the drive so I know it's working however when go to add a steam library it is not listed there as an available drive.

[Mario]

There's a tiny blue downwards facing arrow overlapping with the drive size, clicking on it will reveal the full list of available drives.

[/Agnos|Recreant]

Originally posted by lennythewicked:

Aight, I realized it was just the UI; I couldn't see the scroll bar and had to scroll down to the "add" button. It should be working now.

Nope, not for me. I can see the blue [Add] button after I select "Let me choose another location" in the drop-down, but it does nothing. Nor are there any controls to browse drives and actually select any location. I can click [Add] which does nothing, or click [Cancel] which closes the dialog.

But how do I actually add another location.

(Full disclosure: old drive is dying, I've already moved the files out from the old "other location" that is now the only other option in the other-location drop-down dialog, even though there's no longer any Steam library content at that path.)

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by /Agnos|Recreant:

Originally posted by lennythewicked:

Aight, I realized it was just the UI; I couldn't see the scroll bar and had to scroll down to the "add" button. It should be working now.

Nope, not for me. I can see the blue [Add] button after I select "Let me choose another location" in the drop-down, but it does nothing. Nor are there any controls to browse drives and actually select any location. I can click [Add] which does nothing, or click [Cancel] which closes the dialog.

A Windows File Explorer window should open providing you the ability to browse to the exact location you want to use.

[/Agnos|Recreant]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

A Windows File Explorer window should open providing you the ability to browse to the exact location you want to use.

Linux, but yes, it should, and it doesn't.

Saw some people talking about it on Reddit who got it solved by installing 'xdg-desktop-portal'. I did that but I all I got was a new blank dialog when clicking [Add], which has only 3 buttons at the bottom - [New Folder...], [Select] and [Cancel]. Guess which one is the only one that does anything out of these 3. :D

LE:
OK, I worked around it for now: I found the library folder paths were being kept in ~/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/libraryfolders.vdf and I just changed the path of my old "off-site" library folder to where I had copied it today, getting ready to put the old SSD out to pasture. Size was the same, numeric IDs mumbo-jumbo was the same since I just moved my old content to a different path, so it recognized everything as usual and all the games are showing up. Just hope I don't need to make a fresh library folder anytime soon.

[Wren]

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