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SaltySamurai 23 Jan @ 7:38am

Steamworks common redistributables deleted when ejecting SD card

Can a fix be implemented to prevent redistributables being deleted in this case? I assume steam thinks they are no longer needed because the game they were for is technically no longer installed.

But steam DOES know that a game was installed to a drive that is no longer connected, surly this information could be used to prevent the Steamworks common redistributables from deleting and needing to redownload every time you insert the SD card?

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James Cuyper 23 Jan @ 11:55am

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Originally posted by SaltySamurai:
Can a fix be implemented to prevent redistributables being deleted in this case? I assume steam thinks they are no longer needed because the game they were for is technically no longer installed.

But steam DOES know that a game was installed to a drive that is no longer connected, surly this information could be used to prevent the Steamworks common redistributables from deleting and needing to redownload every time you insert the SD card?

Crashed 23 Jan @ 2:57pm

Originally posted by SaltySamurai:
Can a fix be implemented to prevent redistributables being deleted in this case? I assume steam thinks they are no longer needed because the game they were for is technically no longer installed.

But steam DOES know that a game was installed to a drive that is no longer connected, surly this information could be used to prevent the Steamworks common redistributables from deleting and needing to redownload every time you insert the SD card?

Try uninstalling the redistributables while the SD card is inserted then reinstalling when it is removed. That should force it to install to your internal storage.

SaltySamurai 23 Jan @ 3:26pm

Originally posted by Crashed:
Originally posted by SaltySamurai:
Can a fix be implemented to prevent redistributables being deleted in this case? I assume steam thinks they are no longer needed because the game they were for is technically no longer installed.

But steam DOES know that a game was installed to a drive that is no longer connected, surly this information could be used to prevent the Steamworks common redistributables from deleting and needing to redownload every time you insert the SD card?

Try uninstalling the redistributables while the SD card is inserted then reinstalling when it is removed. That should force it to install to your internal storage.

Just tried that, it just has the base "Game" of SCR which is so small it's 0B I think all the components it can download for running games are like DLCs.

Last edited by SaltySamurai; 23 Jan @ 3:27pm