[Bug] Steam download lost - 50GB

[Supply Side Jesus]

I am very upset that a bug in Steam resulted in me losing 50GB download of a new game. This bug is 100% repeatable.

1. Start game download.
2. Shut down Steam Client manually or power off your computer
3. All download progress is lost

Past versions of steam client were a lot more intelligent in how it handled downloads, simply shutting down Steam did not result in all download getting lost.

[Bing Chilling]

interesting, just tried it with a smaller game, shut steam down, also turned off my pc,
when i came back, the download was still at 150mb
i didn't loose any progress.

[Zekiran]

"Shut down Steam Client manually or power off your computer"

This should be, "shut down steam client properly" and on a new line, "power down your computer". not "either/or". It's one, THEN the other. This may be very closely related to why this is happening.

Stop shutting your computer down improperly. Stop shutting steam down while it's trying to download and install something. Start it up early, don't let it hibernate / sleep, and your download should finish.

[Supply Side Jesus]

This isn't 80s where you had to park your hard drive, it is just shutting down, via OS "shut down" option. Which Steam doesn't seem to handle well.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Supply Side Jesus:

This isn't 80s where you had to park your hard drive, it is just shutting down, via OS "shut down" option. Which Steam doesn't seem to handle well.

That is entirely correct. Which is why you should always - even in the 2020s - shut down your programs FIRST, and THEN your computer.

It doesn't matter how much time has elapsed since the dawn of PCs. They still work the same, and they still break when you shut them down wrong. Steam does this, reliably, consistently enough, that it's "known". So, now that you know: don't do it that way, do it properly like you should always.

[Supply Side Jesus]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by Supply Side Jesus:

This isn't 80s where you had to park your hard drive, it is just shutting down, via OS "shut down" option. Which Steam doesn't seem to handle well.

That is entirely correct. Which is why you should always - even in the 2020s - shut down your programs FIRST, and THEN your computer. .

No, it is ridiculous to suggest that a program that designed to run as a background process s**ts the bed when you shut down your OS.

[Nixamus]

One thing that may have happened: the game pushed an update and therefore invalidated the previous download's progress.