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vanilla gorilla Jul 19, 2015 @ 6:19am
Steam Games all uninstalled but still exist in control panel
I got on Steam for the first time in two weeks today and found all my games had been uninstalled, I checked my hard drive and it still had the same amount of remaining memory as it did when the games were installed. So I went to my control panel to reinstall steam and saw that my steam games were still on the control panel meaning they are still located somewhere on my PC. If I try to install the games it just goes through the whole install process again and doesn't find the previous installation of the game. Does anyone have a fix for this? I've checked other posts but nothing seems to be working.
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Stix6029 Jul 19, 2015 @ 6:26am 
Install a game in the same location you installed it previously,after that all the games that are in that location will be installed and you don't need to download them again,this is a small bug that happens sometimes.
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SirEpicFail Jul 19, 2015 @ 6:30am 
Steam article that may help you.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8379-RYIP-2998&l=English
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vanilla gorilla Jul 19, 2015 @ 6:37am 
Tried that Stix hasn't worked :/
I've read that post, didn't help unfortunately.
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Stix6029 Jul 19, 2015 @ 6:42am 
Are you sure the files are still on the drive ? Check again,maybe they got deleted or some files are missing.
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Tev Jul 19, 2015 @ 7:22am 
Maybe the appmanifest -files have reset.

How are they under the SteamApps\ -folder if you open them up with WordPad? Anything next to BytesDownloaded for example?

If there's no appmanifest -files, try to install in the same location and the Steam -client should (theoretically) detect the pre-existing files.
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