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shockwave

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Registered: 2022-09-24

Posts: 2

[Solved]Steam can't consistently find drives/folders

Hello,

I have been trying to add three libraries to steam. All three are on seperate drives however the built-in steam file browser cant find them and not only that it can only find files  inconsistently.

I am pretty sure at this point that the drives are no longer to blame but maybe someone can point out a mistake in the way my drives are mounted so I have included the fstab information for those drives.
Dolphin(I am using kde-plasma) shows them they are fully accessible and "ls -l" shows the drives with the correct owners/groups

# UUID="5FC65A6145701391" LABEL="drivea"
/dev/sda1               /home/me/drivea              ntfs-3g             rw,relatime,uid=me,gid=me       0 3

# UUID="1356911E50EAE12D" LABEL=driveb
/dev/sdb1               /home/me/driveb              ntfs-3g             rw,relatime,uid=me,gid=me       0 4

#UUID="7AB0E88A41F0FEE3" LABEL="drivec"
/dev/sdc1               /home/me/drivec               ntfs-3g            rw,relatime,uid=me,gid=me       0 5

The LABEL addition is just for me if I change the directory name.

I have also tried the solution on the arch troubleshooting page using $ stat path and $ touch path.
This also seems to not have worked and $ stat path didnt show any folders being made in the future regardless.

If anyone knows of a good solution or a reason why I would greatly appreciate it.

Last edited by shockwave (2022-09-24 17:52:18)

shockwave

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Registered: 2022-09-24

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved]Steam can't consistently find drives/folders

Solved it.

I was just looking in the wrong place.
Steam itself wasnt the issue but it was the fact that it was installed as a flatpak and therefore only had access to specific folders. This solution has been posted before but by simply adding

flatpak override --user --filesystem=/home com.valvesoftware.Steam

It granted access to all the files/drives in my home folder