Non-Steam Shortcuts disapearing

[Cosmonaut Tom]

Anyone else having this problem?

[Kargor]

There is an old bug in the Steam client, where it basically writes out the shortcut file when its shut down. If that shutdown happens during a windows shutdown, however, it might not get to finish that, leaving a corrupted file that will be ignored on the next start. Hence, shortcuts lost,

Solution: in your Steam folder, go to the userdata folder. There's probably just one folder in there, with a name made of digits -- that's your user folder. Inside that, there's a "config" folder, which has a "shortcuts.vdf" file. Use the properties panel from windows to set this to readonly, and you're set.

Note: with this, you can't add new shortcuts since the file is now readonly. Unprotect it to add the new shortcut, then readonly it again.

[DocDickem]

cool

[Cosmonaut Tom]

Awesome, thanks for the info!

[Coltypo0o]

the shortcuts.vdf doesnt exist in my config folder then the #s folder it is only a localconfig.vdf?

[Alpha-Breeze]

I do NOT have a shortcuts.vdf folder at all ONLY a sharedconfig.vdf folder. I reinstalled steam 3 times and still NO shortcuts.vdr folder.