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Steam extracting to desktop

SinisterHumanoid
By SinisterHumanoid
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Anyone know why? Like two days ago it started extracting to desktop every launch, and forcing me to re-login

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Extracting to desktop? Like all of your files are being moved there? 

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4 minutes ago, SinisterHumanoid said:

Anyone know why? Like two days ago it started extracting to desktop every launch, and forcing me to re-login

Are you using a desktop shortcut to launch steam? Maybe that could be an executable rather than a shortcut.

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1 minute ago, SinisterHumanoid said:

Yup. And not showing ANY of the games I have installed. https://gyazo.com/23acf3aaea05a27f380feaff2fa1e019

This issue is wild lmao

 

Did you try checking the installation path(s) in your steam settings? Maybe somehow the path got changed. I've heard of any program behaving like this before

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Just now, ModuleLFS said:

Are you using a desktop shortcut to launch steam? Maybe that could be an executable rather than a shortcut.

I had it set as a shortcut. But for some reason it launches and downloads everything to my desktop.

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Just now, SinisterHumanoid said:

I had it set as a shortcut. But for some reason it launches and downloads everything to my desktop.

Check the shortcut's properties.

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4 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

Check the shortcut's properties.

Yeah I just forced all the files into my documents and reset the location of everything, aswell as forcing it to have a shortcut on desktop and taskbar. for some reason renaming it changes it to the exe for some stupid reason

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8 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

Check the shortcut's properties.

Also. If anyone has the same issue, tell them to not set shortcut to run as administrator. That also fucks everything up and changes it to the exe instead.

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