WTF?! Games in my library uninstalled themselves.

[ℜoygatto ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

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.

[PoorOldSpike]

My DCS world just uninstalled itself tonight and when I tried to reinstall it I got a message saying "Free up some disk space to install".
But i don't get it, its been playing fine for months and i haven't installed any new games, so why is it suddenly telling me I need more disk space?
I hope i've not got the hassle of having to take my PC (win 10) down the shop to get a bigger HD fitted?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

引用自 PoorOldSpike：

My DCS world just uninstalled itself tonight and when I tried to reinstall it I got a message saying "Free up some disk space to install".
But i don't get it, its been playing fine for months and i haven't installed any new games, so why is it suddenly telling me I need more disk space?
I hope i've not got the hassle of having to take my PC (win 10) down the shop to get a bigger HD fitted?

2TB HDDs are $55 on Newegg.

[PoorOldSpike]

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

引用自 PoorOldSpike：

My DCS world just uninstalled itself tonight and when I tried to reinstall it I got a message saying "Free up some disk space to install".
But i don't get it, its been playing fine for months and i haven't installed any new games, so why is it suddenly telling me I need more disk space?
I hope i've not got the hassle of having to take my PC (win 10) down the shop to get a bigger HD fitted?

2TB HDDs are $55 on Newegg.

:qr:

Thanks i suppose i'll have to buy a new HDD as a last resort.

[Span_Wolf]

This has been happening for a while to me. I have many hundreds of games installed on my 10TB HDD and every time I restart steam a random couple hundred games just show up as uninstalled. It would take an entire day to go through the verification process of finding existing files for each and every one, but it would be pointless since the next time I turn on my computer I'd be right back to square one.

I wish there was some way that you could just run a bulk discovery & verification of the game files for your entire game library at the push of a button. I mean it would take hours and hours to do, but I'd like to think of it in the same way that you occasionally run a deep scan with your virus software that takes a while, and it would be a hell of a smaller pain in the ass than pressing the install button and waiting a while and then repeating the process one at a time for over 100 games.

[PoorOldSpike]

引用自 Span_Wolf：

This has been happening for a while to me. I have many hundreds of games installed on my 10TB HDD and every time I restart steam a random couple hundred games just show up as uninstalled. It would take an entire day to go through the verification process of finding existing files for each and every one, but it would be pointless since the next time I turn on my computer I'd be right back to square one.

I wish there was some way that you could just run a bulk discovery & verification of the game files for your entire game library at the push of a button. I mean it would take hours and hours to do, but I'd like to think of it in the same way that you occasionally run a deep scan with your virus software that takes a while, and it would be a hell of a smaller pain in the ass than pressing the install button and waiting a while and then repeating the process one at a time for over 100 games.

In future I'm going to try to buy games direct from the game companies instead of from Steam.I'm currently reinstalling DCS World from Steam after it uninstalled itself, and to add insult to injury it's taking 1 day and 14 hours to reinstall!

[The Giving One]

引用自 PoorOldSpike：

In future I'm going to try to buy games direct from the game companies instead of from Steam.I'm currently reinstalling DCS World from Steam after it uninstalled itself, and to add insult to injury it's taking 1 day and 14 hours to reinstall!

And if you don't have enough disk space to have them installed, how is that going to solve your problem here, such as in this case ?

引用自 PoorOldSpike：

My DCS world just uninstalled itself tonight and when I tried to reinstall it I got a message saying "Free up some disk space to install".

Not having enough disk space on drives can cause all kinds of issues, namely the very one you witnessed.

So if you "by them direct" or get them on Steam, the hard drive is still going to need plenty of free space for disk operations to work right, and not cause the error you had.

[Span_Wolf]

While this isn't a complete fix, it turns a painful process of having to go through your library and find all of the games falsely labeled that aren't installed and manually verify them one by one.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2274-IFLV-5334
Second point on here "Clear Download Cache" is a quick and easy way of fixing things whenever my library borks itself and tells me a bunch of games aren't installed anymore when they are.

[PoorOldSpike]

引用自 The Giving One：

...the hard drive is still going to need plenty of free space for disk operations to work right, and not cause the error you had.

It's alright, the disk space message was wrong, I had to uninstall the old corrupted DCS to get back the disk space, then re-install it and it seems to be working fine.
PS- I write tutorial stuff at the DCS forum which people might want to take a look at.

[ELK]

引用自 PoorOldSpike：

引用自 The Giving One：

...the hard drive is still going to need plenty of free space for disk operations to work right, and not cause the error you had.

It's alright, the disk space message was wrong, I had to uninstall the old corrupted DCS to get back the disk space, then re-install it and it seems to be working fine.
PS- I write tutorial stuff at the DCS forum which people might want to take a look at.

Thanks bro I will go check that out right now by clicking the link you supplied.

[✪ BERSERK]

Has anyone found a fix for this yet?

In my case, 2 of my games on steam just vanished all of a sudden. The folders on my hard drive are empty, and I have not uninstalled them myself. This has never happened to me before, and it is completely beyond me how such a thing is possible.

[Bee🐝]

引用自 BERSERK：

Has anyone found a fix for this yet?

In my case, 2 of my games on steam just vanished all of a sudden. The folders on my hard drive are empty, and I have not uninstalled them myself. This has never happened to me before, and it is completely beyond me how such a thing is possible.

See the first link to the official FAQ on page one - it's is the most common cause for this.

[ELK]

引用自 Bee：

引用自 BERSERK：

Has anyone found a fix for this yet?

In my case, 2 of my games on steam just vanished all of a sudden. The folders on my hard drive are empty, and I have not uninstalled them myself. This has never happened to me before, and it is completely beyond me how such a thing is possible.

See the first link to the official FAQ on page one - it's is the most common cause for this.

Thanks bro I will go check that out right now by clicking the link you provided.

O NOT AGAIN >:(
lol

Here is the link he is referring to but for some reason didn't copy and paste.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8379-RYIP-2998

[MysticVibrate]

woooooow ♥♥♥♥ you VALVE. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2021 and this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ still happening are u ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me. woke up to every single one of my games deleted and uninstalled. smfh just eat a ♥♥♥♥ and fix this most destructive bug on the platform plz for the love of God

[Tev]

引用自 MysticVibrate：

woooooow ♥♥♥♥ you VALVE. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2021 and this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ still happening are u ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me. woke up to every single one of my games deleted and uninstalled. smfh just eat a ♥♥♥♥ and fix this most destructive bug on the platform plz for the love of God

Close Steam down appropriately when shutting your system off.

I very rarely have this issue nowadays, and I have a ton of stuff installed.

[ELK]

I've never had steam "delete" my games. Steam has however multiple times "lost" the location of my games. I have always been able to find them on my HDD and point steam back to the folders.

Are you certain the steamapps folder is empty of your games now?

To point steam to your games location in the top left corner. Steam -> Settings -> Downloads -> STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS (underneath Content Libraries) [with description Manage content locations on multiple drives]