This one is a doozy

[thetraveler54321]

So I recently had to do a RESET on my PC because something happened with it being off for just over a week. I had to reinstall a bunch of software, steam included. My games directories, I somehow had two, were on my extra drives, D: and F:. Some games work others don;t even show as installed, which they are.

Is there anyway to recover those installs or no?

[Cathulhu]

Not really a doozy. Common issue:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4578-18A7-C819-8620

[Yujah]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von thetraveler54321:

Is there anyway to recover those installs or no?

Yes. Noting that by "a Steam library" is meant a directory with files "libraryfolder.vdf" and "steam.dll" and a subfolder "steamapps" with the actual game data, you can add existing such libraries to your install.

In Windows there's nowadays a "one Steam library per logical drive" limit and unless you were careful it's possible that you tried to already through the Steam interface add a library as "add a local drive" for D: and F: which may/will have left you with empty new D:\SteamLibrary and/or F:\SteamLibrary libraries. Check this in Steam -> Settings -> Storage, and assuming your existing libraries were elsewhere, remove any such newly created empty library again (select the library and from its "..." menu choose to remove).

Then if the existing library is for example in F:\Games\Steam again add a library but rather than "Local Drive (F:)" select "Let me choose another location" or some such formulation from the dropdown next to that default choice while creating it, and then select F:\Games\Steam.

[thetraveler54321]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Yujah:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von thetraveler54321:

Is there anyway to recover those installs or no?

Yes. Noting that by "a Steam library" is meant a directory with files "libraryfolder.vdf" and "steam.dll" and a subfolder "steamapps" with the actual game data, you can add existing such libraries to your install.

In Windows there's nowadays a "one Steam library per logical drive" limit and unless you were careful it's possible that you tried to already through the Steam interface add a library as "add a local drive" for D: and F: which may/will have left you with empty new D:\SteamLibrary and/or F:\SteamLibrary libraries. Check this in Steam -> Settings -> Storage, and assuming your existing libraries were elsewhere, remove any such newly created empty library again (select the library and from its "..." menu choose to remove).

Then if the existing library is for example in F:\Games\Steam again add a library but rather than "Local Drive (F:)" select "Let me choose another location" or some such formulation from the dropdown next to that default choice while creating it, and then select F:\Games\Steam.

That worked. Thanks