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ℜoygatto ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2014 年 10 月 12 日 下午 12:52
WTF?! Games in my library uninstalled themselves.
I got off last night and turned off my computer, when I got on this morning about half of all the games in my steam library were uninstalled. I didnt uninstall them they just uninstalled themselves apparently. Is there any way that I dont have to sit here and reinstall all of them again? Or is that my only option? Any help would be much appreciated.
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ELK 2019 年 7 月 16 日 下午 9:59 
I don't feel like reading through this thread but every game has an app manifest file which tells steam it is installed. I've never tried downloading the app manifest as I assume they are updated as the game is updated but maybe i'm wrong. I always grab them from my friends. They are in the Steam\steamapps folder and look like this "appmanifest_346110.acf" Every game has a different number

This only applies if the game still exists in the folder it should Steam\steamapps\common most likely
最後修改者:ELK; 2019 年 7 月 16 日 下午 10:00
PPlank 2019 年 7 月 18 日 上午 7:03 
引用自 The Giving One
It's not a bug. There are several reasons this can happen, and I think they were covered here, and from the support page.

When several people have computer issues, hard drive fails/corruption, forced shutdowns due to OS problems or hardware problems or running unsupported operating systems on their computer, etc., etc., etc., that is not a Steam bug.

If your D drive is internal, and not external, then I would suggest a disk check to be sure the drive is in good health. And what happened right before the games went missing ? Did you have a problem or other issue right before that ? Usually, they don't just totally disappear, unless there is some kind of issue like CCleaner going in overdrive mode and "Cleaning" up your PC where it does not need to.

That is just one example. There can be other software that can cause things like this.

I understand, thank you.

To add some flavour, it's as if it's a fresh installation of Steam, but it still remembers all my login details as I'd set it up as just a game machine to play platform games and racing games with Steam controllers.

At boot, it's set to login to (a fairly much vanilla) Windows 7 on the Windows "Games" account and then auto login to Steam using my Steam account details and go into Big Picture mode. In other words, it's set to behave as a console.

There is no anti-virus or cleaning software installed and internal software like Windows Defender and Windows update are disabled as its only use is as a games machine via Steam. The D: drive is a partition of the single internal 1TB hybrid drive. I've run a disk check and it's fine. Last use of the system was 2 weeks prior, and all was well. Last boot up as I said, all my games were uninstalled and the D: drive was empty apart from an empty Steam installation - which logged into my account as it should do.

I have two other machines with Steam installed, this 10yo laptop I'm typing on now (puzzle games and Impossible Creatures), and a more powerful rig I use to play games like Rust. I haven't used the powerful machine for 4-6 weeks as I've been ill after chemotherapy (long story, but I'll be fine).

It's a puzzle. If it's not a Steam bug, and there's no HD issues, and there's no software other than the default that comes with Win 7, I don't know why it should have completely removed all my games including manifests etc. I re-installed them and all is fine again. I've just fired it up to check, Steam updated and the games are still there.

I saw this thread in a Google search and came to see if there was a known reason and post my "me too."

It smells like a random Steam bug, but yes, it could just as easily be a random or obscure hardware issue. I built the PC myself and is just another in a long line of home built machines. ;-)

If it does it again, I'll be back and report any new findings. Thanks again.
ELK 2019 年 7 月 18 日 下午 2:02 
You checked before re-installing the games and they no longer existed on your hard drive? I would reseat your sata data and power cables if so. Are you sure you never setup a different folder for your games? Some games have problems being within the program files folder as it is a protected folder. You would have gone into steam -> settings -> downloads -> steam library folders
The Giving One 2019 年 7 月 18 日 下午 3:10 
引用自 PPlank
The D: drive is a partition of the single internal 1TB hybrid drive.
If you have a whole TB, why do you have this as a partition ? Have you considered testing this with just using the 1 TB hard drive without any partitions ?

Is it an SSD or HDD ? If it is an SSD, check the manufacturer's website for any firmware updates to the drive, and only use the official tool recommended by that manufacturer to install any that may be available.

If it was just a file or two that went missing or that Steam could not see, then maybe it could be one of the issues on the support page.....

BUT

You said everything goes missing, including the .acf files (manifests) as well as all games and game folders. Yea, sounds like a hardware issue to me also, such as a firmware issue or what the good Cleveland said above, maybe. Check you connections and reseat them all.

Sometimes, especially if the PC is moved around, things can become bumped loose, and you said you built this PC so we all make mistakes sometimes, so maybe you left some connections loose and they need to be reseated.
ltolman4 2019 年 7 月 18 日 下午 4:16 
I don't know anything about .acf files but since I added my 2cp in earlier pages I have a 4TB Hard Drive that I partitioned and made a 2.8tb section just for games. Steam is installed on this section of the hard drive and of course the games are too.

What happened with me was that when Iaunched the Steam Client and clicked on the game, it was greyed out; and the thing said "Install" but the folder was still on my drive and the size of the game was correct too. And I just re installed.
The Giving One 2019 年 7 月 18 日 下午 4:19 
引用自 ltolman4
I don't know anything about .acf files but since I added my 2cp in earlier pages I have a 4TB Hard Drive that I partitioned and made a 2.8tb section just for games. Steam is installed on this section of the hard drive and of course the games are too.

What happened with me was that when Iaunched the Steam Client and clicked on the game, it was greyed out; and the thing said "Install" but the folder was still on my drive and the size of the game was correct too. And I just re installed.
And that is what those .acf files are for. Without them, those games will be greyed out.

Because as I said above, Steam cannot see they are even installed :
引用自 The Giving One
You don't necessarily lose the data. It is just that Steam cannot see it is there. The library data becomes corrupted, and the games need to be "seen" again.

It's explained on the support page linked in the thread.
Those .acf files are supposed to be in the steamapps folder.

Have you read the support page on this ? It has been linked in this thread several times.
PPlank 2019 年 7 月 19 日 上午 11:29 
You checked before re-installing the games and they no longer existed on your hard drive? I would reseat your sata data and power cables if so. Are you sure you never setup a different folder for your games? Some games have problems being within the program files folder as it is a protected folder. You would have gone into steam -> settings -> downloads -> steam library folders

Yes thank you, all gone before I reinstalled them. I've been using Steam for a good few years now so I'm aware of the usage of library folders. It was like Steam had just been installed on the machine and no games had been added yet. The HDD was nearly empty. BUT. The machine was still aware of the fact to autologin to my Steam account when Steam started, so it wasn't a new install. As I said it's a puzzle, but all is working now as it should. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
PPlank 2019 年 7 月 19 日 下午 12:21 
引用自 The Giving One
引用自 PPlank
The D: drive is a partition of the single internal 1TB hybrid drive.
If you have a whole TB, why do you have this as a partition ? Have you considered testing this with just using the 1 TB hard drive without any partitions ?

Is it an SSD or HDD ? If it is an SSD, check the manufacturer's website for any firmware updates to the drive, and only use the official tool recommended by that manufacturer to install any that may be available.

If it was just a file or two that went missing or that Steam could not see, then maybe it could be one of the issues on the support page.....

BUT

You said everything goes missing, including the .acf files (manifests) as well as all games and game folders. Yea, sounds like a hardware issue to me also, such as a firmware issue or what the good Cleveland said above, maybe. Check you connections and reseat them all.

Sometimes, especially if the PC is moved around, things can become bumped loose, and you said you built this PC so we all make mistakes sometimes, so maybe you left some connections loose and they need to be reseated.

I did say in my previous post that I partition drives against OS reinstalls. It's good practice. If you install everything on a single C: drive like MS would have you do, and the OS screws up, then you also have to reinstall everything else too. Plus, with other regular machines, its nice to do a format and fresh OS install every so often. For the same reason I tend to use PortableApps on the D: drive rather than a direct indidividual software install into the OS drive. If I have to reinstall the OS, I'm back up and running with everything back just as it was in a couple of hours. If you've never used PortableApps, it's worth checking out their site. All my docs and media are kept on a 6TB unRAID array on another machine on the network and the important things (docs and photos) are backed up to a remote server (SOSOnlineBackup). I did all this to this games machine out of habit and personal good practice. That's why. ;-)

The drive is a hybrid. I think something like 4GB (or maybe 8GB) of onboard cache with the rest of it HDD.

As for connections and reseating cables, I haven't checked yet as it's a VERY heavy case (I didn't check how thick the steel was before I ordered it) and I'm a bit reluctant to move it out of its little corner niche at the moment. If I have the problem again, I'll take it all apart for sure. The cables were all new braided and a new PSU and water cooler, but even new quality gear can be faulty sometimes.

But I'm not convinced it's a hardware issue - from your comments I know you're fairly certain it is - I still feel it's a Steam issue. I've had no other problems with the machine other than my Steam games uninstalling themselves. Tickling my brain is the thought that I would have seen other problems if it was a faulty drive or cable.

I dunno. ;-)

Thanks again for taking the time to comment and make suggestions, I'm sure everybody reading this at a later date appreciates it, I certainly do.



Mike 2019 年 7 月 19 日 下午 12:48 
I have had the same problem in the past, but they were games that i didn't care about!
BobbyOlsen 2020 年 8 月 1 日 下午 12:42 
Today X-plane 11 is deleted ;(
That's my favorite game! I also contacted steam to know what could have happened... X-plane 11 is located in the steam files too, where all the other games are located...
Hope i can wake up tommorow, and have this working again!
ELK 2020 年 8 月 1 日 下午 4:00 
Sometimes my steam library folders that aren't in the same location as my steam.exe are no longer recognized by steam and I have to re-add them
pcuser2113 2021 年 2 月 8 日 上午 11:11 
Wow this happened to me twice this week, once with Cyberpunk 2077 and with Fortnite. There's no way I'm bothering to install them again. Instant refund for Cyberpunk, I refuse to waste my time with this garbage.
pcuser2113 2021 年 2 月 8 日 上午 11:13 
How pathetic are you as a developer to release & charge money for a faulty product that DELETES itself from your machine?!!!
cSg|mc-Hotsauce 2021 年 2 月 8 日 上午 11:14 
引用自 pcuser2113
How pathetic are you as a developer to release & charge money for a faulty product that DELETES itself from your machine?!!!

Usually happens when you incorrectly exit Steam. A restart usually fixes it.

:qr:
Alasthor 14 2021 年 2 月 26 日 下午 5:46 
Just hapened to me but just partialy when i installed Outrider demo
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