Steam library problem

Razor-BladE · 31 May 2011 at 20:38

Basically when I set the games to a category, it doesn't always 'stay put'. Sometimes, and not necessarily all the games I change, they go back to the category that I had it as before after maybe a few minutes or hours.

This has happened with both logging out and logging back in, and staying logged in.

At first I thought it wouldn't bother me, but now with more and more games it's getting really annoying.

At other times (if I put in a shortcut to a non-steam game) it does stay in the category I set it at, but sometimes it might create other shortcut to the game and put it in the default 'Games' category, so I have two shortcuts in my library.

Anyone experienced this and/or know of a fix?

Dave**** · 31 May 2011 at 20:46

Sorry but I have never felt the need to categorise my games on steam. A-Z does me fine.

Antar Bolaeisk · 31 May 2011 at 20:46

I've found that exiting steam after setting a category is the best way to make them stick. That way it backs up the settings to the cloud.

I have had problems in the past though when I opened Steam on my netbook to find it still had the older settings which were then synced to my desktop. All my 175 neatly organised games became unorganised again

Steam also needs a better way to organise things as the current set-up is a pain.

Razor-BladE · 31 May 2011 at 21:33

Davola said:
Sorry but I have never felt the need to categorise my games on steam. A-Z does me fine.

I thought that for a long time. But then when you have 80+ games, it's a lot nicer to have to categorised.

Antar Bolaeisk said:
I've found that exiting steam after setting a category is the best way to make them stick. That way it backs up the settings to the cloud.

I have had problems in the past though when I opened Steam on my netbook to find it still had the older settings which were then synced to my desktop. All my 175 neatly organised games became unorganised again

Steam also needs a better way to organise things as the current set-up is a pain.

Alright thanks. I'll give that a go next time.
Yeah, they need to allow for multiple game selecting to put into a category because doing one by one is so slow.
Also, having sub categories could be handy.

orderoftheflame · 1 Jun 2011 at 11:20

Davola said:
Sorry but I have never felt the need to categorise my games on steam. A-Z does me fine.

Maybe when you've only got a few dozen games. When you've got a few hundred it's a godsend.

@OP Not had the issue with categories, but used to get issues with non-steam shortcuts. That seemed to go away with an update though. Worth trying just reinstalling the client and forcing an update?

Frapple · 1 Jun 2011 at 11:33

Don't launch a game after you've categorised things, restart Steam and it should save.

Happens to me when renaming shortcuts.

Dave**** · 1 Jun 2011 at 11:38

orderoftheflame said:
Maybe when you've only got a few dozen games. When you've got a few hundred it's a godsend.

@OP Not had the issue with categories, but used to get issues with non-steam shortcuts. That seemed to go away with an update though. Worth trying just reinstalling the client and forcing an update?

My god man, you have over 500 games! So I can maybe understand why you would want to

Razor-BladE · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:15

Yeah, I think it is just the non-steam shortcuts actually. Thanks for the help. Restarting seems to be working