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'Steam'-directory arbitrarily renamed to 'SteamLibrary' by Steam runtime update without informing user

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8531 · opened 2022-04-10 by cyberpunkrocker-zero · updated 2026-04-14 · 1 comments · github
Ccyberpunkrocker-zero 2022-04-10 github

Steam version 1647446817 on Arch Linux.

Whose incredibly stupid idea was to arbitrarily rename the default Steam directory name on non-system drives from 'Steam' to 'SteamLibrary' during the latest Steam Runtime update (a few hours ago) WITHOUT INFORMING THE USER OF THE CHANGE IN ANY WAY???

I have installed all my Steam games to a drive outside the home directory, and when I restarted Steam, all of the games were seemingly gone. It took me a while of panicked debugging to figure out what was wrong: In the end, I just needed to rename the (in my case) /mnt/data/Steam directory to /mnt/data/SteamLibrary and re-add it as a Steam directory.

But, WHY?

Ddaveedmee 2026-04-14 github

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