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Problems with detecting steam games

42thgamer

Hello all

I had some trouble after an Windows Update and I had to reset my PC. I did it with keeping my personal files but it did delete most programs. But most games were installed on other drives so those did not get deleted.

But steam does not see these games any more and deleting them en re-downloading would take a day or two I think.

 

Is there a way I can tell Steam where does games are? I have a very similar problem with QTorrent, I have multiple donwloaded torrent and was wondering if I could make them auto detect without having to find the torrent info.

 

Thanks in advance!

42thgamer

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If you uninstall them (which steam can't because they cant detect the games) and then reinstall the games in the same location where the files for the preexisting game files are, steam should detect the preexisting files and and just update the games.

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3 minutes ago, Owen Wetzel said:

If you uninstall them (which steam can't because they cant detect the games) and then reinstall the games in the same location where the files for the preexisting game files are, steam should detect the preexisting files and and just update the games.

If I select the folder where the game is installed it gives me this error "Failed to add new Steam folder" "Folder must be empty"

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Dou you have your games on your c drive or on a different drive.  

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2 minutes ago, Owen Wetzel said:

Dou you have your games on your c drive or on a different drive.  

They are on other drives.

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Are the games installed in a folder on the drive Like for example: E:\Steam\steamapps\common or on the drive directly so its  E:\steamapps\common ?

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3 minutes ago, Owen Wetzel said:

Are the games installed in a folder on the drive Like for example: E:\Steam\steamapps\common or on the drive directly so its  E:\steamapps\common ?

All games but one are like this: E:\Steam\steamapps\common

But I see now that one has this filepath: E:\steamapps\common

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Ok, for the ones that are installed like  E:\Steam\steamapps\common install them in the folder which they are. It should work. i dont know what to do about the other one.

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3 minutes ago, Owen Wetzel said:

Ok, for the ones that are installed like  E:\Steam\steamapps\common install them in the folder which they are. It should work. i dont know what to do about the other one.

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I tried that and it doesn't work. Any other ideas?

Thanks for all the help so far btw!

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3 minutes ago, Owen Wetzel said:

what is the issue you are having?

When I select the folder it says I have to select an empty folder.

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3 minutes ago, Owen Wetzel said:

Odd, i have not had that issue before.

Well, thanks for your time. I have some downloading to do I guess.

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