Deleting local screenshots in the manager also deletes already uploaded cloud screenshots.

[SweatyPauls]

So, I think this bug(?) started with the new screenshot manager update.

Used to be if you uploaded some screenshots to the cloud you could then delete them with the screenshot manager and it would only get rid of the local ones stored in the steam folders and the cloud uploads would stay safely in your screenshot gallery, since it has been, you know, uploaded to the cloud.

But now if you upload to the cloud and go to delete the local ones through the screenshot manager it will delete both the local ones from the steam folders and the uploaded cloud pics from your gallery.

I've found that you can delete the local screenshots straight from the steam folders without using the manager and the cloud/gallery pics will be safe but then you will get a bunch of error icons inside the manager.

Is this a bug or intentional because it is very annoying? You should be able to delete the local pics stored in the steam screenshot folders without it affecting the already uploaded cloud pics in your gallery.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Uploaded screeenshots are the same on your HDD.
Its just online.
This behaviour is normal and expected.

[SweatyPauls]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Uploaded screeenshots are the same on your HDD.
Its just online.
This behaviour is normal and expected.

I don't think so, but if it is intentional it's a terrible change. People are unintentionally having pics in their gallery deleted while thinking they're only deleting the local files. Most people don't need to have the local screenshots taking up space in the steam folders after they've uploaded to the cloud.

Before the big update it worked perfectly fine. After the update something changed. Makes no sense to be able to upload to the cloud if deleting the local version through the manager deletes the cloud upload too. Defeats the whole purpose of the cloud. It at least needs separate options for deleting locally or uploaded cloud pictures. Or just change it to how it worked before.

[LMS ]

I've always just use the folder, a uploaded screenshot should just automatically delete from local storage.

[Tiramisu]

Originally posted by SweatyPauls:

So, I think this bug(?) started with the new screenshot manager update.

Well, it sure isnt how it always was!

Ive uploaded thousands of screenies over the years, you used to be able to select all in any folder and delete and it would only delete the local files. Now it deletes everything - without warning.

Wish I found out on a smaller scale. However, I just finished AC Valhalla which I played on and off over the last ~2 years (coz the game is stupidly big), went and uploaded maybe 30 screenies out of several hundred, job done, hit delete as usual.... except this time everything is gone.

[Santar]

Yeah his is a real annoying change they did when they added the new screenshot manager.
Before the update you could delete a local screenshot in steam and the uploaded screenshot would still be there on steams servers.
Now you have to manually delete local screenshots in windows yourself which results in a black error image when you browse screenshots in Steam, because Steam still thinks the image is there.
I really hope they fix this.

[Scruug]

I've noticed that when I went to my older computer, the now deleted screenshots still say that they are saved to the steam cloud, but they are deleted on my profile galery and I cant get them back or reupload them

♥♥♥♥ pisses me off tremendously I just want my screenshots back and the fact that they pushed out a broken BETA screenshot manager is not good.

[Hard Core Rikki]

Local operations shouldnt affect the remote image thats now stored on steamcommunity, period.
People upload screenshots, they dont sync in either direction.

For people concerned about accidental deletions, keep a duplicate copy of your screenshots as lossless png/avif and manage it locally if need be at any point, like to upload a far higher quality version to an image hosting service (steam generates and uploads strongly compressed trash-tier jpegs using an inefficient library).

[Hlebka ⛩]

Just lost more than a year worth of screenshots because of this. Steam support couldn't help either

[Challak]

Originally posted by LMS :

I've always just use the folder, a uploaded screenshot should just automatically delete from local storage.

This. OR at the very least, make it a setting so that we can opt-in to this is exactly what it does. I don't want files I've uploaded to Steam taking up local storage as well. That's just nonsense.