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A Cat 17 Sep @ 6:43am
Steam deleting games on its own? Bug
Booted up my PC today and saw that Warframe wasn't showing up as installed, even though I've just been playing it last evening. Looked through the steam forums, and apparently its a known issue and is something that happens to other f2p games, according to people?
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/230410/discussions/0/3158630999999587810/

Do people know what causes this and if there are any plans to fix this or prevent this from happening?
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AmsterdamHeavy 17 Sep @ 6:54am 
The most common cause of games "uninstalling themselves" is an improper shutdown of the pc/client.

The client does an inventory before it shuts down. If you do not allow this to happen by powering off the PC by forcing the power button, or forcing the client to close from the shut down menu then manifest files can be lost or corrupted.

The manifest files are what tells the client that the game is installed. Thats why your "uninstalled" game's files are almost certainly still sitting there in the directory.

Solution: Do not force power off with the start button and let applications close through the normal shutdown process and do not force them closed from the shutdown menu.
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