How to change the name of a category in my steam library

[GuberDK]

Hi
So i am doing a bit of spring cleaning in my steam library, and it struck me, that several of my game categories are inaccurate so i want to change their name so that the games added to this category is a lot more precise. Only problem is that i have no idea how to do it. I have looked through almost everything and yet i cannot find anywhere that allows me to change the category title.
So anyone out there, that can explain to me, how to change or delete a category title.

My thanks for any help you chappy guys can come up with.

[Ogami]

No direct way to rename sadly. You have to remove every game from a category then it deletes itself. After that create a new category with the name you want and move your games there.

[BloodShed]

Originally posted by Ogami:

No direct way to rename sadly. You have to remove every game from a category then it deletes itself. After that create a new category with the name you want and move your games there.

You're making it more complicated then it actually is.

Select all the games in a category and add them to the new category(s) you want and uncheck the old one.
Then click OK and you're done.

[bibbis]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by Ogami:

No direct way to rename sadly. You have to remove every game from a category then it deletes itself. After that create a new category with the name you want and move your games there.

You're making it more complicated then it actually is.

Select all the games in a category and add them to the new category(s) you want and uncheck the old one.
Then click OK and you're done.

Thanks

[Lil Willy]

Just click once on the first game in the category, hold shift and click the one at the bottom and click set categories.

[Eman345]

Right click on the game you want to move to a catigory and it should say "move to catigory" or "create a new catigory" click on one of those and I think you can just click done or something

[bibbis]

Originally posted by Silver_Walls:

Just click once on the first game in the category, hold shift and click the one at the bottom and click set categories.

Originally posted by Eman345:

Right click on the game you want to move to a catigory and it should say "move to catigory" or "create a new catigory" click on one of those and I think you can just click done or something

Why do you keep answering as if BloodShed didn't already make it perfectly clear how you are supposed to do it? :P

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by Ogami:

No direct way to rename sadly. You have to remove every game from a category then it deletes itself. After that create a new category with the name you want and move your games there.

You're making it more complicated then it actually is.

Select all the games in a category and add them to the new category(s) you want and uncheck the old one.
Then click OK and you're done.

Thanks for that!

[AsMadAsHatter]

(LOL. Wishing I could thumbs up bibbis.)

[thegreatbard]

In case anyone else happen to get here trying to know how to change it, there is an easier way if you don't mind chaging a configuration file.

Basically, close Steam and open this file:

<steam_location>\userdata\<user_id>\7\remote\sharedconfig.vdf

(If you don't know your user_id, help yourself here[steamidfinder.com])

Then replace every occurrence of the category name you want to change, to the one you really want. Use Notepad++ or SublimeText to do it more easily. Bear in mind that some character are escaped here, for example, my problem was that I mistyped a category and it had an slash at the end, so to change it I had to search for "//".

I've just tried and worked flawlessly, so I'm sharing here.

The complete explanation is here: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/307284/54809

[Gonzaxpain]

Hi everyone, I have a couple apps that are in the software category and I want to see them in Games or in one of my customized folders. Any way to do that? even if I change the category I can only see them under software which is of no use to me when all my subfolders/categories belong to Games.
Any way to change that?