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Gaylord Fartmaster 27 Nov, 2015 @ 8:01pm
How to find deleted friends?
My friend deleted all of my friends from friends list, and i need a way of getting them back, please help.
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Mr. Happy 27 Nov, 2015 @ 8:52pm 
I'm afraid your only way that I know of is to manually re-add all your friends through the community search
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CinthyaBunny 27 Nov, 2015 @ 9:06pm 
And get rid of your other "friend" who deleted all of them.
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76561198206993709 27 Nov, 2015 @ 10:13pm 
i cant add any friend
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Mr. Happy 27 Nov, 2015 @ 10:21pm 
Originally posted by EID:
i cant add any friend
that's becasue you currently have a limited steam account, until you get a full account by spending $5 USD in the store or by wallet funds parts of the community wont be avalible to you
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Tev 27 Nov, 2015 @ 10:25pm 
Use these,

Have you reformatted your computer since?
If not, navigate yourself here
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<Steam3ID>\config\
Open localconfig.vdf up with WordPad and CTRL+F to your friends. Find your friend.

If the alias hasn't updated, see the number series in quotations, that's the Steam3ID.
https://steamid.io/ add U:1 to start and then type the Steam3ID.
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Gaylord Fartmaster 28 Nov, 2015 @ 8:34am 
Thank you Teutep, the userdata method worked :)
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Greenfields 28 Nov, 2015 @ 8:51am 
Originally posted by SpookyPookie:
Thank you Teutep, the userdata method worked :)
Actually you can use this site that can actually show your friend history and more https://www.steamid.co.uk/profile/76561198060531699
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M!st 29 Nov, 2015 @ 12:28am 
@Greenfields thanks for the mention.

It works via steamid.co.uk providing the site has loaded your friends list previously. Every time the profile loads it will grow the history (If there are different friends). This isn’t very accurate but it seems to work well for most people and currently the only way I think this can be done?
Last edited by M!st; 29 Nov, 2015 @ 12:28am
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AyyGamer 29 Nov, 2015 @ 12:29am 
JUST... Add them back the normal way? Idk:steamfacepalm:
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M!st 29 Nov, 2015 @ 12:41am 
I think it’s the difficulty in remembering people’s gamers names as profile pictures, names change overtime, I have a copy of my friends list personally but if I lost them without it, I don’t think I could add 1/4 of the people back on.
If you can find friends, it may be worth crawling through the profile as you could have friends in common? – On Steamid.co.uk I did add in “mutual friends” on the friends table which also may be of use in speeding up your search (Not trying to plaster the site but I think its genuinely of use in scenarios like this)?
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Kenny T Bone 7 Dec, 2017 @ 9:22am 
The C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<Steam3ID>\config\ help me to find my friend back.
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Artstyle 2 Jul, 2018 @ 9:53am 
Originally posted by Teutep:
Use these,

Have you reformatted your computer since?
If not, navigate yourself here
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<Steam3ID>\config\
Open localconfig.vdf up with WordPad and CTRL+F to your friends. Find your friend.

If the alias hasn't updated, see the number series in quotations, that's the Steam3ID.
https://steamid.io/ add U:1 to start and then type the Steam3ID.

Thanks a lot. you are awesome
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Damnn RΣh1™ 7 Jul, 2018 @ 7:22am 
Originally posted by Teutep:
Use these,

Have you reformatted your computer since?
If not, navigate yourself here
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<Steam3ID>\config\
Open localconfig.vdf up with WordPad and CTRL+F to your friends. Find your friend.

If the alias hasn't updated, see the number series in quotations, that's the Steam3ID.
https://steamid.io/ add U:1 to start and then type the Steam3ID.
Thank you!
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_blank_ 23 Jul, 2018 @ 4:39am 
i need to get my friends back pls steam help us we need are friends pls we need help
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76561198421272686 23 Jul, 2018 @ 5:08am 
please someone add me as friend
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