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Sinn Feb 11, 2013 @ 12:06pm

Infinite Steam Cloud Sync

For some reason every time I try to close Steam, even if I open it and immediately close it, it says "Finishing Steam cloud sync" and I am forced to wait like 30 seconds before it actually turns off. This didn't happen to me before, I'm not sure why this happens if anyone knows please feel free to share any help is appreciated. It's more annoying than anything and I'd simply reinstall Steam but that seems to be like a drastic fix.

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Legendary old man Feb 11, 2013 @ 12:10pm

I thought it did that for everyone. I turn off cloud myself.

Sinn Feb 11, 2013 @ 12:12pm

Eh, on fresh Steam install it doesn't do that... which is why I found it so strange that it spontaneously started for an unkown reason.

I can fix it with a fresh install it's just a pain to reinstall all my games. If anyone knows how the cloud sync works please teach me! :D

Also, doesn't disabling cloud sync mess up multiplayer games that have online stats like CS and stuff?

Mad Medico Feb 11, 2013 @ 3:37pm

had the same problem and I did a reinstall but it came back, plus when I start steam it won't start on the store page like I've set it to but to my games library

Sinn Feb 12, 2013 @ 2:53am

Update - I disabled "Steam cloud synchronization for applications which support it" in Steam -> Settings, and still get the "Finishing Steam cloud sync" error.

Feels like someone is hijacking the sync data stream. But I might just be acting paranoid. I refuse to believe Steam's had this feature for this long and still has not fixed annoying little bugs like this. Plus I'm pretty sure my sync option was enabled by default and working perfectly fine until a couple weeks ago.

Wish Steam had like, moderators. :P

Anyway, let's report this to Wesker...

[ZeroG]SheppardSG1 Jun 16, 2017 @ 3:00am

Had the same problem today with wolfenstein keep saying sync and wont launch a game at hall + steam is acting weird as hell

✪ sway Jan 23, 2018 @ 2:14am

i just restart computer

Fraltah Apr 27, 2021 @ 4:24am

It's happened to me too any solution?

Last edited by Fraltah; Apr 27, 2021 @ 4:25am

cSg|mc-Hotsauce Apr 27, 2021 @ 7:28am

Originally posted by Fraltah:
It's happened to me too any solution?

Valve is looking into the new 2021 bug.

「最悪だ」 Apr 27, 2021 @ 11:34pm

Happening here too.

CaliberPlex Apr 28, 2021 @ 4:28am

Originally posted by Fraltah:
It's happened to me too any solution?

Temporary work around that I do; close steam manually with task manager. Idk if that will damage steam in any way though since it's attempting to cloud sync.

But I haven't had any problems yet and it checks for updates every time it relaunches so if its doing the cloud sync thing while trying to update, like me, then that could work for you too.

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Fraltah Apr 30, 2021 @ 2:24am

I found an alternative solution if you are experiencing this problem after exiting a certain game, try cleaning the save files. When a game has too many save files, steam can take too long to sync. It worked when I did it in Skyrim.

Last edited by Fraltah; Jun 19, 2021 @ 7:55am

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jjanella Jun 8, 2021 @ 6:11am

yea iv been having to 'pkill steam -9' from the terminal a lot recently too i thought it was just me

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Auster Jun 18, 2021 @ 8:12pm

Originally posted by 《K博士》:
Happening here too. :DoctorK:

Just happened to me after I tried to exit Steam right after closing a game.

What I did to fix it was open the game again, close it, then wait a bit until Steam recognized that the game was no longer running. After that, I didn't get the error.

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