which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall

#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall install
#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall software
#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall download
#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall windows

It might not be a conflict anymore as that list was old, but just so you know about the possibility. Fox:I've looked through that list, and I think the only program I use that fits that list is Hamachi, but I've had Hamachi for longer than I've had steam so I doubt that is now causing issues :/ Before the support page was updated, Hamachi was once listed there. So I would assume it is the latter of your two options, steam is jsut seeing the games as uninstalled for some reason, as all the required files seem to be downloaded and present.

#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall windows

acf file stay the same as well, the only thing I can see that it changes is the 'Date modified' column in windows explorer.

#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall install

When I reinstall it, the size of the install file stays indentical, and the size of the. acf called 'appmanifest_249630' which is the ID for Delver, so I guess that is the. Ok so I ran a quick test on Delver, one of the games appearing as uninstalled to me in my library, all the files seem to be there in steamapps/common and there is a. Are the game files actually missing or are they there and Steam only sees the game as uninstalled ? There is a difference. Fox:I don't use any specific anti-virus program since I've too many issues with them messing up programs like this in the past, I jsut have windows defender, so that shouldnt be an issue.) One thing you need to do is check the files. That might be a good thing to know, so you/we can narrow down where the problem maybe is. So check the game folders for the games that give you this problem and see if the files are still there. acf files are missing or not seen by Steam. So you can still have the files in the game folders and they are intact, but for some reason, the. acf files are the files that tell Steam that game is actually installed. Are the game files actually missing or are they there and Steam only sees the game as uninstalled ? There is a difference.įor example, in the Steam/steamapps common folder, there are all your game folders. One thing you need to do is check the files. It has a monitoring mode that messes with Steam and games and that has to be disabled, or the program itself disabled or uninstalled to prevent this issue. There are other programs that can mess with Steam and games, though. But yes, Windows Defender should be fine and not cause issues with Steam and games. Fox:I don't use any specific anti-virus program since I've too many issues with them messing up programs like this in the past, I jsut have windows defender, so that shouldnt be an issue.) Some antivirus programs are bad or have poor settings for you to allow exceptions, but some are ok to use with Steam and games, as long as you make those exceptions in the real-time scanning of that antivirus. The only other thing I can think of, is I enabled the steam beta in the options a few months back, but I tried reverting that a few weeks ago and the issues are still happening.

#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall download

I have 3 games on my C drive I think, and 600 or so on my D drive that this issue is happening on, and yesterday one of the games on my C drive did the same thing, Arma 3, which when I reinstalled, decided I needed to download all 28gb of workshop files I'd had previously again, so Im nearly positive it isnt an issue with my drives. I don't use any specific anti-virus program since I've too many issues with them messing up programs like this in the past, I jsut have windows defender, so that shouldnt be an issue.

If you have Steam installed on your C drive as you said, and that is an internal drive, then do any of the games you have in the Steam folder on C ever have this problem ? Unless you don't have any games in the Steam folder on C, that is.īecause if you only see the issue with the games on that other drive, I bet that is your problem.

#Which myst game would delete your hard drive upon uninstall software

Or, security software such as antivirus or other is quarantining or blocking the access to certain files or the location of the games and then Steam is having issues launching them and has to 'discover' the files and fix the issue each time. You have an issue there that is causing this, and I suspect that the good Robin3sk above is correct, as you are probably using an external hard drive with Steam and/or games. Originally posted by The Giving One:Steam does not uninstall your games unless you tell it too.