Lost my download's progress.

[76561199063087050]

How do I restore my download's progress or where it left off? I'm downloading war thunder and it stopped in 18.1 GB and suddenly went back to 0 when the wifi came back. There was a forum made by aKill in 2017 about "Fix for the Steam reset / progress lost bug." but I don't know how to do all the steps because I just reinstalled steam after almost a year. Back up doesn't help either since there is no backup files.

[76561199063087050]

Please reply, I don't wanna wait for like 17 hours.

[76561199063087050]

I looked at the steamapps in downloads and I can see the files before it got reseted, how do I link it or atleast restore the lost progress?

[Elucidator]

Steam detects those automatically when you let it download the files.
that said, it needs to validate them so it will still scan them and that will still take a lot of time.

What is your internet speed? Maybe steam is downloading slow for reasons within your control.
And also you want to test your HDD speed (if you download to HDD at least) using CrystalDiskMark.
Specifically Random 4K Write speed. (that may explain slow downloads)

Also make sure no other program is busy using internet.
and just let it download over night if you need to wait that long no matter what you do.


Edit: You look at bars.
I recommend you to look into the logs instead to see what Steam is actually doing.

Those bars are just a 'progress bar' and the remaining time is an estimation based on information it can access, which is a guess that usually not ever correct. It could say 4 years and 10 seconds later its done, because it works in a weird way.

The progress bar doesn't indicate whether or not it redownloads the same files or pieces of a file.
It is trying to guess its current progress.
It needs to validate what it already has so it goes back to 0% and then 100% being done with validation, then knows based on that where it left off, so it shoots to for example 63% and then continues.

[76561199063087050]

Does Steam actually reset my downloads when I exit steam while disconnected to it?

[Marazipan]

Originally posted by CreamCypress:

Does Steam actually reset my downloads when I exit steam while disconnected to it?

People have reported that if you shutdown your PC with a paused download and don't exit Steam first then it will effectively reset your download progress and start from scratch.

Apparently you can avoid this issue if you exit Steam first (using the Steam drop down in the top right corner of the client and select exit), before shutting the PC down.

[76561199063087050]

Originally posted by Marazipan:

Originally posted by CreamCypress:

Does Steam actually reset my downloads when I exit steam while disconnected to it?

People have reported that if you shutdown your PC with a paused download and don't exit Steam first then it will effectively reset your download progress and start from scratch.

Apparently you can avoid this issue if you exit Steam first (using the Steam drop down in the top right corner of the client and select exit), before shutting the PC down.

Ah, thank you! Now I became an example of what not to do. XD

[Marazipan]

Originally posted by CreamCypress:

Ah, thank you! Now I became an example of what not to do. XD

No problem, although I apparently don't know my right from my left. The Steam drop down is on the left not right of the client, you probably worked that one out though.

[76561199063087050]

Originally posted by Marazipan:

Originally posted by CreamCypress:

Ah, thank you! Now I became an example of what not to do. XD

No problem, although I apparently don't know my right from my left. The Steam drop down is on the left not right of the client, you probably worked that one out though.

Maybe.

[76561199063087050]

I lost my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ download's progress again.

[76561199063087050]

I don't know what I did wrong, the wifi is ok, I exit steam properly, I doubled check everything and it resetted the moment I went on.

[76561199063087050]

I SWEAR TO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GOD, I'M NOT COMING BACK IN STEAM AGAIN

[Elucidator]

Not everything I said was useless.
Look in the logs to find out why it happened.

[76561199063087050]

Originally posted by Elucidator:

Not everything I said was useless.
Look in the logs to find out why it happened.

Wait, there's logs?

[Elucidator]

Look in the directory where Steam is installed
There is a 'logs' folder there.
Its somewhere next to the 'steamapps' folder.
There is a specific log text file that is about the download progress of apps you download on Steam.

Edit: The file you want to look at is called "content_log.txt"
It looks a bit messy, but each step of the download progress is described in there. You can see why it starts over if it did.

[76561199063087050]

Originally posted by Elucidator:

Look in the directory where Steam is installed
There is a 'logs' folder there.
Its somewhere next to the 'steamapps' folder.
There is a specific log text file that is about the download progress of apps you download on Steam.

I can't find it.