Download restarted from beginning. Lost all downloaded data.

[Mendax]

Any solutions? Should i download again or wait for Steam to fix?

[Mendax]

Any reason to say no to digital only.

[I choose me]

That happens when there is a new update. When you download always make sure to put the option "Only update when started" in the properties. When the download is finished you can put it in the default mode

[Iceira]

Did you pause the DL and then exit steam, its know as right way to shutdown steam.

And technicaly low disk space can technicaly force MS windows to recover free space from temporary files, i have not test this ever, it's ms actual can clean steam files up, sense it seen as emergency procedur doing boot up at windows.

Anything lesser then 200gb aka. old advice with 90% fll disk on 2tb that's the 10% we learn from past OS7 warning or red color bar at disk near full.

ps.
And if you think steam going to fix something, they are not in controll over user use all space and if crashed you going to wait a long time, steam is a online client and it dont make it better then games is now 4 times bigger then 10 years ago then 25gb was a huge game.

maybe ask steam suggestion for better option to save current progress, see it as way out of slow bandwide to power issue like browouts as amercian call it , just because all this sounds great dont mean steam want to make it happend , this was done in the modem age as checksum recover procedur, so its nothing new, but could require a option with store files first then unpacking, and i dont need to explan steam this way, they should know this way more then me in what option they can to prevent start over.

brownouts in power grid has always been possible, but now more then ever., so i dont think this old way is outdate, its simple matter of the world have change and can happend again as we once see it in the past. ( and solar flare from sun hitting earth ) this is not the last time that will happend

dont forget all goverment claim cant happend here with standard bronout, they lie, it can happend anywhere. maybe tell steam this, its still 2 diffrent things and yet its same effect lost DL progress.power cut off and you can kiss that dl byebye as incompleated cut off dl.

only way i know this because i have to part of network eduucation in lost power or interference to cable from power , so i know a tiny bit about it.

gl with explan steam this if they dont know this already as they should but that not same as maybe do have recover files option and resume in dl. huge diffrence and actual do something about it.

[Iceira]

im talking about game dl , and maybe you mean steam client update patch dl issue, thats not same thingy.