Steam games showing up as uninstalled.

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I was trying to play GTA V and Rainbow Six but they show up as uninstalled, i've had this problem in the past with a variety of laptops/pc's and it just keeps happening.
If a game showed up like this, i just let Steam discover the files and it would be done in 5-10 minutes, but i've been playing alot of GTA lately and it's a HUGE game, so when i need to discover the files again it'll take like 45 minutes for it to finish, and even after that i have to do it again because Steam is downloading the entire thing again.

I getting sick and tired of this and i'd like some help.

FYI: I'm only available on my "Gaming PC" in the weekends, so i won't be able to give all the information instantly.

Thanks in advance

NOTE: If you post on monday to thursday, i won't be able to check if your solution works

[Tev]

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You should probably from now on store GTA5's appmanifest file. It's appmanifest_271590.acf

That way whenever it shows up as uninstalled, exit Steam, replace the corrupt appmanifest -file with the functioning one. Restart Steam and it should show up as installed again.

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Originally posted by Teutep:

View me: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8379-RYIP-2998

I've already tried/checked all of this.

[Tev]

Originally posted by Hydrogen:

Originally posted by Teutep:

View me: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8379-RYIP-2998

I've already tried/checked all of this.

Which would make sense to include in the starting post to begin with.

Anyway, I edited the first post.

Tried seeing if the download restarts after the discovery process even with non-Microsoft services disabled?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8043-EUJN-5239

You can also try to recreate the appmanifest -file using SteamCMD.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD#Windows

login <username> <password>
<SteamGuard>
@sSteamCmdForcePlatformBitness 64
force_install_dir "PATH TO GTA5"
app_update 271590 validate

Then open up the SteamApps\ -folder it creates within GTA5, drag the appmanifest_271590.acf to your actual SteamApps\ -folder and restart Steam.

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Originally posted by Teutep:

Originally posted by Hydrogen:

I've already tried/checked all of this.

Which would make sense to include in the starting post to begin with.

Anyway, I edited the first post.

Tried seeing if the download restarts after the discovery process even with non-Microsoft services disabled?

Nope, not yet, after the second time "Discovering the files" i just went ahead and play the game.

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