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steam client creates too many files in home folder: .steam .steampath .steampid

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6308 · opened 2019-06-07 by Jimbolino · updated 2019-06-07 · 1 comments · github
JJimbolino 2019-06-07 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1556574584
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 19.04
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Issue:

Steam creates too many files in the home folder of the user.
I suspect this is probably legacy, because one of them is a broken symlink.
There are currently 3 files/folders in the user's home directory:

.steam
.steampath -> /home/username/.steam/sdk32/steam (broken symlink)
.steampid -> /home/username/.steam/steam.pid

i suggest moving these folders, or the content of these folders to the appropriate location:
/home/username/.local/share/Steam

Or if that's not possible, at least move the .steampath + .steampid inside the .steam folder.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Install Steam
  2. Run Steam
  3. open a console and type ls -al
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-06-07 github

Hello @Jimbolino, this is a duplicate of the feature request at #1890 and also the legacy Steamworks hacks being tracked at #5245. My understanding is that it's not trivial to move these without breaking some games.

Closing in favor of the existing issue reports.

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