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Adding Non-Steam games to library [Problem]

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ki11fr3ak

Hey guys,

I'm a person who likes to have all my games arranged in my steam library including those that are Non-Steam.
I carefully set grid images for each of em and set their names properly.

Now, here is the problem, sometimes when I start up Steam, All the Non-Steam games vanish and I have to add them manually again and again. This is the fourth time it happened this week.

So anybody know how I can set them permanently? Or is it just a glitch on account of steam? Do you guys also experience it?

For the TL;DR guys : Non-Steam games added to library keeping on vanishing from time to time... What do I do ?

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doubledragon666

It has happened to me too

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ki11fr3ak

:D

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Arkem

Yeah, it happens from time to time. You can make a backup of "shortcuts.vdf" and restore it when it gets corrupted.

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ki11fr3ak

I can .. but ... adding games is not much of a task ... arranging them and adding custom images is the hard part.

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Arkem

If you don't move the files, and rename it as it was before, just restart Steam. It will put back your custom images.

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ki11fr3ak

I usually add the same files ....and I'm sure they're at the same path ... But they always end up with bad grid images and crumbled names ... Anyway I will give it a try thank you :3

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Arkem

Weird. It works for me for custom backgrounds and grid images.

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DavidSarif

It happened to me too. Also some games marked with "install..." while they're already installed. A recent update might be the cause.

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ki11fr3ak

Thats what I think too ...

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Epikblaznist

I thought that was just me, but it happened to me after a few recent steam client updates. Seems ok after last update.

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ki11fr3ak

Its the opposite for me .... Seems to be increased after the last update....

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NebulaProphet

I also had this problem a few days ago. It hasn't happened yet after I exit steam by clicking exit. Before I would just shutdown my pc.

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ki11fr3ak

Oh? maybe thats what I'm doing wrong ... I shutdown the PC without exiting steam ...

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NebulaProphet

exactly. give it a quick try and see if it works!

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ki11fr3ak

I will ... I usually exit steam before shutting down my PC ... but I think ive hurried it up a few times last week ... Thank you :3

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Luniaril

i dont understand the reason why would you shut down your pc...

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nath2000wild

I don't understand why you would not :P
Normal people close it when they are away from home or are sleeping.

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Arkem

Electricity. And I guess he's using Windows.

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ki11fr3ak

^This ... electricity is the main reason why I shut down my laptop ... had power been free ... my laptop would be SWITCHED on 24x7x365

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Msntrph

+1
my laptop only shutdown or restart when installing windows update lol (if i still using it..always postpone 4hours)

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konyo42

If it's really a problem for you, you might wanna consider opting out of the beta for a while to see if that helps,
it wouldn't surprise me if the beta patches are the reason your library resets that often, since those patches are experimental in most cases.
If it still happens then at least it won't happen that frequently, since the beta updates almost daily.

-edit- Considering your post above this one it's likely that you're corrupting the related steam files

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ki11fr3ak

IM not enlisted into the Beta ... and yeah maybe its to do with the shutting down thing ...

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konyo42

My bad, didn't know that it's possible to join the steam trading card beta when you're not opted in for the steam beta.

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MrAuto

If you turning off your computer, close steam first (wait some 5-10 sec) and then turn off computer
it's working for me

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ki11fr3ak

Maybe ... Thanks :3

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moyako1802

Yeah, I had that problem with GW2. At the end I got tired of adding it everytime I tunred on my PC

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ki11fr3ak

I know that horrible feel when we have to set all of em again and again :D

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1PaC

It has only happened to me once, but I only had 2 non-steam games at that moment and I don't remember the circumstances.

Do the custom images disappear from the folder?
Steam-userdata-some number-config-grid

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ki11fr3ak

yeah they disappear

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Sylar17

It happened to me too and it's kinda annoying.

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ki11fr3ak

I know right ...

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ki11fr3ak

:D

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