STEAM - Validating files for ALL APPS in one?

[FatRakoon]

This is something that I have really needed to do for some time in all honesty.

While you can verify the integrity of the game files by Right-Click, Properties, the LOCAL FILES TAB and then Verify the local game cache, and this will run a check for your files and then re-download all the missing ones...

But is there any way to do it so that I can verify all the files on all my apps?

I ask this mainly for my Linux setup, but Windows will be also usefull, if not anywhere near asuseful as it would be for my Linux setup.

I mean in my Steam collection of course LOL

I know it does not seem like much of anything at all, but I have a fairly huge collection of steam games, and I have steam on my main machines in Windows, Linux and my Hackintosh, and I have gone to play game after game after game, only for it to whine about not finding the executable and then I am having to do the verify etc each time, and it has bugged the heck out of me... mainly because I thought that it was all done.

I am soon going to do a full-on refresh of my Steam apps, but I will be doing it by backing up and restoring, and not by downloading from new because there is 1.4TB of data in my steam folder... Obviously, the Mac and Linux folders are nowhere near as big, but they are filling up well enough.

Anyway... Anyone got any ideas, or is it one at a time only?

 

[FatRakoon]

Ok, well many thanks for the link.

It Is very much what I am after, but this only does Windows.

Its definitely a solution for that, and so tons of thanks for it.

It does not solve my Linux or Mac issues however.

I have tried 2 ways to get files into the Mac & Linux setups...

Firstly, a simple copy, and then verify the files to get the necessary linux bits, and this did work, but then somehow, even though It had previously passed the verify, when I went to actually play the games, they failed with miossed executables and then another verify came up with ridiculous ammounts of files awol ?

The second option was to backup using Windows, and then restore using Linux, and this did seem to half work, in that it seemed to be happy to extract what it needed from the backups, and then of course I dont expect it to run straight off, so I have to verify the files and they then got the required files, but to be honest, it was as if it neveer actually took any files at all because the files needed was pretty much the same as the entire collection of files anyway.

I dont expect any executables etc to be working, but surely the data files will be the same?

I have a horrible feeling that I have tons of data thats about to come down my line and its going to look very suspicious to my providers.

LOL