Shared library not working

[PomboJoseph]

Does anybody have seen the case when a shared library simply stopped of being usable? Like, all the games shared by my friends libraries disapeared and the games that already are installed are showing the "buy" button unlike the "play" button.
Help me plz

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by PomboJoseph:

Does anybody have seen the case when a shared library simply stopped of being usable? Like, all the games shared by my friends libraries disapeared and the games that already are installed are showing the "buy" button unlike the "play" button.
Help me plz

When users change/reset their password or use a new device, yes.

Redo the while process again.

[Azal]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by PomboJoseph:

Does anybody have seen the case when a shared library simply stopped of being usable? Like, all the games shared by my friends libraries disapeared and the games that already are installed are showing the "buy" button unlike the "play" button.
Help me plz

When users change/reset their password or use a new device, yes.

Redo the while process again.

:qr:

not really, legit all your friends who you sharing library with suddenly stopped working and the game just dissappear from your library and ask you to buy the game, this happens to me couple days ago, i have no idea what to do so i just simply give up for it, and the next day, my sharing library with friends is back working again when i boot up my steam


anyway, i come here because it stopped working again after of this steam new update ui lol, so im trying to look for solution here

[PomboJoseph]

Originally posted by Azal:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

When users change/reset their password or use a new device, yes.

Redo the while process again.

:qr:

not really, legit all your friends who you sharing library with suddenly stopped working and the game just dissappear from your library and ask you to buy the game, this happens to me couple days ago, i have no idea what to do so i just simply give up for it, and the next day, my sharing library with friends is back working again when i boot up my steam


anyway, i come here because it stopped working again after of this steam new update ui lol, so im trying to look for solution here

The same,
a feel weeks ago it happened too, then i borrowed the libraries from my friends again, but it happened again this week :(

[Ogami]

A tip for the future, after you set up Family Share go into the Steam installation folder and make a copy of the "config.vdf" in the "config" folder and store it somewhere safe.
That file contains all your saved Family Share connections.

In the future if a update or something else deletes your Family Share setup, just copy that file back to the same place and restart Steam. Always worked for me to restore my Family Share connections without having to setup everything again with the different accounts.

[PomboJoseph]

Originally posted by Ogami:

A tip for the future, after you set up Family Share go into the Steam installation folder and make a copy of the "config.vdf" in the "config" folder and store it somewhere safe.
That file contains all your saved Family Share connections.

In the future if a update or something else deletes your Family Share setup, just copy that file back to the same place and restart Steam. Always worked for me to restore my Family Share connections without having to setup everything again with the different accounts.

Wow,
This is a real usefull tip, i'll make a backup of this file next time to avoid any other problem to the family share, firstly i'll have to take the sharing of my friends again 😅.
Really thankfull man!