Shared library locked even when owner is offline.

[Grizz Owlbear]

Exactly as it says on the title. Does anyone have an idea about what could be causing this?

[Cathulhu]

Setting your friend network to invisible or offline does not make your account offline.

[Grizz Owlbear]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Setting your friend network to invisible or offline does not make your account offline.

I know, but my friend (whose library I'm sharing) and I are in contact throughout the whole day, and he barely uses his steam account since he mostly plays League. He also doesn't know what is causing this issue.

[Ogami]

Does he share with someone else except you who could be using the library?

[Grizz Owlbear]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Does he share with someone else except you who could be using the library?

Yes. We're all in a single group chat, actually, and none of us know exactly what's going on. I'm sorry if I haven't been helpful so far, but that's what it is.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Grizz Owlbear:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Does he share with someone else except you who could be using the library?

Yes. We're all in a single group chat, actually, and none of us know exactly what's going on. I'm sorry if I haven't been helpful so far, but that's what it is.

Chances are, the system is picking friend 1 library when friend 2 is playing locking you, friend 3 out of friend 1 library.

The system picks the library that is shared and that leads to headaches.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3784-QLBM-5731#gamevslibrary

Only other way around it is SFS Select...

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~t_schmid/sfs-select/

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/familysharing/discussions/1/3068621701744549116/

You should all use it when multiple people are using sharing for multiple accounts and own the same game that is being shared on multiple accounts.

[Grizz Owlbear]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Grizz Owlbear:

Yes. We're all in a single group chat, actually, and none of us know exactly what's going on. I'm sorry if I haven't been helpful so far, but that's what it is.

Chances are, the system is picking friend 1 library when friend 2 is playing locking you, friend 3 out of friend 1 library.

The system picks the library that is shared and that leads to headaches.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3784-QLBM-5731#gamevslibrary

Only other way around it is SFS Select...

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~t_schmid/sfs-select/

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/familysharing/discussions/1/3068621701744549116/

You should all use it when multiple people are using sharing for multiple accounts and own the same game that is being shared on multiple accounts.

:qr:

Thank you for taking the time to respond in such detail, but I'm sorry to say that what you're describing isn't really my case. I checked with my friends to make sure they were all offline at a certain moment, and Steam is still not letting me use the shared library function for one of them in particular. Again, sorry for not being too helpful, but it is what it is.