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Your screenshots are located in the "Recording and Screenshots" window.
Why open one viewer to open another viewer through it?
I want to be able to navigate to the actual location of the file on my computer so I can send the screenshot to friends outside of steam, or just have direct access to it in general for whatever purpose I want. Removing the "show on disk" button has removed the ability to easily navigate to it.
Instead I now have to navigate into my steam install location and navigate through game IDs to get to the correct location. Steam already stores the screenshots locally and used to provide and easy way to navigate to it. What used to be a simple button click, has now turned into a navigation through folders.
PS. It seems that many users do not understand that F12 in Steam is needed in order to take screenshots, select the best ones in the Screenshot Manager, publish them to the Cloud, and delete the rest. Windows Explorer is not required for this.
If someone wants to take tons of screenshots just like that and store them locally, then there is ShareX and the like for this (or Steam Settings → Save an external copy of my screenshots)
In this new screenshot manager, I really have to look at these thumbnails, with only 3 on each row - click on them to increase the size a bit and if it isn't the image I want, go back and search again.
Not even forgetting that with a folder I can easily copy or move multiple files at once or like pull them directly into my Discord chat or whatever.
I never use F12 to take screenshots anyway. I use ShareX, etc., and all my screenshots are in the "Screenshots" folder on my desktop. I use Steam's screenshot manager only to upload some of these screens to the cloud.
For me it's just normally quicker to simply press F12 in the heat of the moment and sort afterwards, especially if the screenshots I might wanna keep, but not upload are done during action packed sessions/online game/or whatever that let's me simply not interrupt gameplay. And it is easier then switching between different hotkeys or tools all the time just because one screenshots falls under category one and the other under two and then pressing both, because one screenshot falls under both categories.
There is just a lot of people that were using (and those not in beta program probably also still using) the function to directly open the screenshot folder. And it's not like the screenshots aren't saved locally anymore, they are literally still on the pc - just not easy to find anymore, because you have to navigate through some folders only named by numbers, with more folders existing the more screenshots you've taken in different games.
It's just a big headscratch for me why some simple option like this is completly removed, despite it having it's uses, because right now one either needs to move to external solutions, like you or use a lot more time for the same things, which both isn't really optimal for the end user experience in my opinion.
Well, I see such logic in these changes.
Tbf, I don't look into the forums a lot of times, and the only reason I landed here in the first place, was because I googled where this button went - only to see that it seemingly is removed entirely. So I can't say anything about the posts of the screenshot manager being "broken", when it worked as intended. Though if I remember correctly, the old one had some placeholder thumbnail for missing pictures, so it seemingly does know when an Image is missing and could perhaps just automatically remove the entry from this list or something, while still leaving the option to access the folders easily.
Feels more like an inconvience to me as someone who regularly opened the folders, even if it was just to send this one screenshot from months or years ago to a friends, when talking about some glitch or bug that happend to me in a game and I screenshotted.
The steam viewer does not have a zoom option. I can't stretch a screenshot to use my entire monitor. There's no way to edit a screenshot. I can't take it and repost it on another site without direct access in the folder. The Steam screenshot viewer is arguably the one feature of Steam that is extremely lacking. Just about everything that I do with screenshots require me to go to the screenshot folder.
Seems like a bug.
Another (not hypothetical) example of OS file browser being handy:
Selecting a many screenshots all in one go and dragging into an editing program. Would take much longer to go to the viewer > copy > photoshop > new doc > paste > repeat x many.
"I don't use it therefore no-one needs it" isn't helpful.
I need to view my screenshots in original size, always.
That change causes such inconvenient to so many users. Then you show up to oppose them just because YOU DON'T USE THAT FUNCTION AT ALL. Seriously?
It's important to me. I need to view them in original size, then capture partially with my IM software, ALWAYS.