Steam says "Not Installed" on my entire my-games list??
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Okay so I started up steam this morning on Windows 7 only to find out my entire mygames list is wipes with all my games that I have tied to steam saying "not installed"
This pisses me off because I spent a good deal of time backing up my entire Steam directory and all the mods I had installed (including external exe files) so I wouldn't have to redownload my entire 50GB directory when I installed steam.
Weird thing is, it was working yesterday just fine.
Is there some file I have to delete here to get it to work and detect everything again?
Restart Steam, restart your computer, etc.
If they still show up as uninstalled, try running one, sometimes Steam just needs to unpack files and the like.
Check your steam directory to make sure everything's still there.
Just try running them.
Delete all your non-essential steam files, basically everything except steamapps and the .exe itself.
Create a Steam folder in either C:\ or C:\Program Files, where ever you want. Inside the Steam folder put the steam.exe and the steamapps folder with all your backed up games. Then run steam.exe, it will then install itself into that directory. Mission Accomplished!
Awesome that worked, thanks. I still have to redirect all my non-steam exe's I guess but thats no big deal.
you must have had your steamapps folder in the wrong place
Ugh nevermind. I restart steam and EVERYTHING is reset again :sigh:
Why the fuck is this happening??
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Okay, setting it to XP SP3 compatability mode seemed to have alievated the issue for now
I thought SP3 of XP just made it worse, so they would force you to upgrade to vista. I've had more problems with SP3 than SP2.
Delete clientregistry.blob from the Steam folder.
[QUOTE=Unreliable;16970849]I thought SP3 of XP just made it worse, so they would force you to upgrade to vista.[/QUOTE]
no
inb4 massive trollfest
Didn't work (deleting client registry).
Every time I restart my PC it appears as if things "reset" and I have to remove my Steamapps folder, start steam, then replace it back in there and restart steam. Really annoying...
Same shit happened to my friend.
He just restarted it. Then restarted his desktop.
Is there anyway to fix this?
I keep getting this EVERY SINGLE time I restart steam/my pc.
Run Steam in administrator mode, it seems like it doesn't have permission to read files.
Is there anyway to make it so admin mode is always on?
Right Click > Properties > Compatibility Tab > Run this program as an administrator
Well I meant in-general and all the time for all programs I use.
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Nevermind, I'm dumb.
Did it work?
No, but I just totally uninstalled steam and re-installed it again + run in admin mode for the first time, restarted, and it appears to work.
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