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STEAM: Favorites keep disappearing

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4577 · opened 2016-08-01 by longboardtard · updated 2019-08-23 · 8 comments · github
Llongboardtard 2016-08-01 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version: steam 1.0.0.52-2
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): ArchLinux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

This is a long lasting bug, I can't believe it still exists. I've been a long time user of steam and have had my share of this bug already. It's happened across many steam and system updates. The first time it happened to me was in Windows, but now that I use Linux almost exclusively, and have been using it for some years now, I'm just getting tired of it happening here too. The description of the problem is simple:

I add some servers to my favorites, and everything is fine, they are there, but then if I happen to go into offline mode, when I come back into online mode, my favorite servers disappear. It doesn't always happen, meaning I can't get it to happen consistently 100% of the time, but I can get it to happen 75% of the time which is still significantly annoying. Sometimes I believe it's just happened randomly instead, even without going offline/online.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Add servers to your favorites.
  2. Go offline, then online again.
  3. Enjoy.
Iitzexor 2016-08-02 github

Same issue here, except I don't use offline mode. It used to only occur once in a while and be resolved by a steam restart, but lately my favorites have been disappearing completely or just showing up as "No internet games responded to the query" every time. This is really annoying.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2016-08-02 github

#3511 reports something very similar on Windows.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2016-08-02 github

Note that this forum is for Linux-specific bugs and since this appears to happen on Windows also this is not the ideal place to report it.

Llongboardtard 2016-08-02 github

Please, read my description again. This is happening on Linux. I only mentioned the fact that it's occured to me in Windows as well just to point out that this isn't Linux specific, it's a general problem, and it's been there for a long long time.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2016-08-02 github

Right, this forum is for problems that only happen on Linux/Mac (this forum is for the porting team). Things that happen on all platforms are passed over to the regular Steam team.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-07-12 github

Hello @longboardtard, @itzexor, have either of you seen this issue on an up to date system?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-08-23 github

Closing pending feedback.

Llongboardtard 2019-08-23 github

This happened to me again a couple of weeks back, sorry I hadn't replied. At the time it happened it was the latest steam package available in archlinux:

steam 1.0.0.61-1

Nothing extracted yet.