Unable to sync (not needed in the first place)

[scumbeggar]

Recently, Steam has been showing "Unable to sync" notice for every game, including those from early 2000s, even though sync is disabled for all games in Steam client settings. Enabling and disabling sync again to make Steam memorize the setting properly does nothing.
Great job breaking what didn't need fixing.

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Yeah man, it's annoying.

It's also been mentioned in this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3464975249557816820/

And it's also been mentioned in the last couple of replies in this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1850323802572223463/?ctp=6

Looks like a certain "fix" broke it:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3361392458123611354

Originally posted by Steam:

Steam Cloud
-Fixed issue causing some users to be unable to disable Cloud Sync for their account
-Fixed for app launch stall if there are sync conflicts but Cloud Sync is disabled for the game or account

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Still not fixed, unfortunately.

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Still unsolved.

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Issue remains after the latest update.

[Quailman]

Same for me. I got really excited that a fix was finally here but it didn't fix anything. It started on the July 27 Update for me too. I am currently trying to find out how run games outside of Steam via .exe files or through other launchers. It doesn't seem like Steam is putting enough effort into fixing this issue and I'm losing patience with them.

[Iron Monkey]

This is super annoying and started up for me some time last week. It goes off an on. I always have sync enabled for the games that have it so it's not just related to people with it disabled and/or offline users.

Sometimes it comes back if I sign out and back on or if I restart PC, right now today I can't seem to get it to sync at all.

Like the above said there has been two updates saying it's been fixed but still hasn't here is hoping today after maintenance it might come back

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Needless to say, this still isn't fixed.

[Mr.Curious]

Same problem here. Really frustrating

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Fixed yet? Nah.

[Iron Monkey]

Nope, even tough it keeps saying it is with each update.

[Ghost of Bukowski]

Getting these same issues lately while playing Elden Ring. Says out of sync and whenever I click I get the Retry sync prompt, click it and nothing happens.

[CrunchyBiscuit]

The fix remains elusive after the latest update.

[Boots of Doom]

Very very frustrating when you're modding a game needing restarts every few minutes and this window pops up (sometimes in the background) when I have syncing turned off in the first place.

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Surprise! They actually fixed it!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110?emclan=103582791457287600&emgid=3329873512156580764

Originally posted by Steam:

-Fixed showing “Cloud Sync Failure” dialog on game launch when in Offline mode

[Quailman]

Yay! We finally got our fix. Thank you to everyone here for keeping this thread (and others) active and for keeping the pressure on Valve to get this fixed.

I'm going to try and make a backup of this Steam Client version using this guide as a last resort in case this ever happens again: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1057314457