Lost all my Steam config data overnight. Can it be saved?
I had something like 100+ Non-Steam games added with customized art-work, controller configs. When I started Bazzite today (which launches in Game Mode) it asked me to log in to Steam. Thought it was strange. Once, signed in I notice that everything I spent countless hours setting up is gone...
Noticed that it was complaining about my home partition being out of space, which is funny because I freed up over 14GB yesterday so I could run a system update (through rpm-ostree). Some background process ate that free space really fast (it shouldn't have been the system update itself, because I had more than 3GB free post-update, and everything was working fine), and qdirstat indicates that I have hardly any disk usage in my /home anymore. I guess the lack of disk space caused failure/corruption when trying to write Steam configs (or whatever else it may be writing) and made it start over with a new instance?
Also my system hostname randomly changed from bazzite to Fedora. What's up with that?
Seems like you ought to add some shutdown script that warns the user severely if we're nearly out of space
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actually nvm.. i found the cause of the problem. i had previously moved data away and symlinked it back, which had worked great for months, but for some reason that suddenly broke. anyway, i updated to a 4TB NVMe m.2 SSD now and just copied the old data onto that, getting rid of the symlinks and just merging everything together again. it works great and my old non-steam games with their artwork etc are back 🙂
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can i at least reassociate my IDs in
/home/bazzite/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata with re-added non-steam games?can you go into desktop mode and open btrfs assistant and tell me if you have any snapshots in the "snapper" tab
if you do, select all of them and delete them then update your system because you are on an ancient version that had a bug with snapper enabling itself.
Solution
actually nvm.. i found the cause of the problem. i had previously moved data away and symlinked it back, which had worked great for months, but for some reason that suddenly broke. anyway, i updated to a 4TB NVMe m.2 SSD now and just copied the old data onto that, getting rid of the symlinks and just merging everything together again. it works great and my old non-steam games with their artwork etc are back 🙂