‘caieaesteam Bang hie 1 gon nao ©) STEAM —cURHANG cONGBENG THONG TIN HO TRO Tt thd in » oi in Ste > Help an Tips» Chit hi 6 (Cha de nay da bj hos gly dang: 4 Thg0s, 2023 @ 7:27am Bal vit: 14 B Erogamez 4 thg06, 2023 @ 7:27am “Steam Library Folder is Not Writable.” Hello Tao met thde luan méi Tim ci ny Q ‘Awhile back, my previous solid state dive wich housed my game data became tnusabe and had tobe replaced Now, am trying to have my Steam client store games and ll related info on the {Bl Quy dinh & Hung din thao wan replacement sold state civ. But, when I ry to choose the new eve asthe location on which to store the data, the Steam clnt tll me thatthe “Steam Ibrary folder is not writable." It also does this for a couple of my other dives. All of my drives, including the new games drive in question, ae fully functional: they read and write other files and using other apps with no problem. Please tell me how to resolve ths Issue, Lan sa cuba rogamez: 4 Thg06, 2023 @ 9:46am ‘Tie gid chi dé d8 chon mét bal vi lim cfu tr Is cho ca nd! cua he, Nip vao day dé nay tl bai vigt 6, ‘Nguyen van bat eer: Yes you tried, and now get it what happend at system and we are many that seen lost steam rights, problem is most of us gave up and did the i dont trust that system Anymore and reinstall it [And this is why most helper today never say it reinstall OS, and ‘option, because wnat change this in the frst place. you can try hardcore faulty finding, but now we are over in ist steam or windows that cid rename steam folder to old (reinstall steam and see if this helo, then move content back if not kiss that OS byebye or read about FULL control and worst part what about next app and right with that. as like the trust to the system i lost Imo bet we are many that see this happend before, and afaik not have notice what cause this, do not underextimate restore to old system point, problem is when dd it happend walt a week if you can maybe other have a idea, f you can or dont want to wat. im sure you know the SEC and Dism repare, but that will nt fh lst rights, i im right in this that require there is a issue with It so it rebuild It. doubt that. atleast see it as not that help, could help next steam user that face same Issue.ps. also lost a past win7, back then addware was main blaim cause or virus, and nothing has change here still same blaim. 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(if we dant mention this possiality then it wont help next steam User. if its even a help at all.) ol with it ‘ang hin th) I-14 trong 24 binh lun {re you having “System Right ssue with permission os not allowed to make a steam "steamLiorary” in the ROOT ( rot and other location snot same thingy} you inert ight from flder above, might be the cause why steam is row in the rot of any disk now. no more issue with rights fom above felder. its tke you de or dont know the diffrence In system rights or steam popup error with tor you do know the difrence Is like you 05 have lost some USER Rights with steam somehow, ‘You can ty censtll team overcurrent one to ee f that can ft lost steam ght ‘ty this frst, also olé ways he run steam as administrator on [Link] and that is a sign something in system snot same as It once was. and sense you have many disk that doing same, can be seen as conf nota err, but system that cont give ights to steam todo its task if you have a empty disk test with that, so you can see and test and wipe and recreate It there and add steam folder again Ln se cus be ei: 4 Thg06, 2023 @ 8:23am * The Steam clent is installed on my startup C dive, but m tying to have Steam store the ‘games ona iffeent deve. nthe Steam settings. | have been selecting only the top-level root locaton forthe desired drive, no other folder. tried running the Steam clent as an administrator and also tried temporarily disabling my Antivirus software, but neither of those steps solved the issue. "ih ry to rental he Steam client, tts seen before, dnt recall a Solution unless you want to fix “User rights and Full Control ‘worst pat ofthis what ld ths, and this Is why you try reinstall steam overcurrent to hope teil fc ane you know the outcome of ths none else has any Idea, you can try safe boot mode and see if this sa interference issue, but even | doubt it wil {change anything, ights i rights and will not change without something cause this. and it what now fix because you enter safe boot mode, its here it dont make sense. ‘only wy to expan i, soother someday might be lucky and know better what do this, I ths is one of them addware or system change. ‘Old windows Solution rule back to previous windows restore point, thats a solution, but dont ‘@olan when or with wnat ci ths and how long you had it util you notice this, if you have a gamer pe, maybe even reinstall OS can be seen as best solutions and thenyou had enough ofthis, lets see what other helper has to say. and ts stil your choise, ty gle posta week or month, before take action Ifyou can lve ‘with it, wha knows f someone has a ea, al with it os ‘ont forget steam support, who knows if they have idea how that happend. ‘ane you ean also say they might want to know, Lan sda cu beer: 4 Thg06, 2023 @ 9:10am 2 So, | reinstalled the Steam client back ito the same location on my Cdtve, but the same issue is happening, Io notice that now only one af my dives cannot be written toby Steam. The other dives sem to be okay. Unfortunately, the one dive tat can't be writen to iste one | need to use for my games. | id contact Steam Support. They think t's @ Windows permissions issue and told me to talk to Microsoft Support, But Microsoft doesnt seem to have a way to tlk to areal person for its Windows operating system ‘team Support also suggested the problem could be caused by an interfering program, such sativus software, VPNs or firewalls, But, | have not changed my software setup since ‘the last time Steam was able to propety use all my hard devs. None ofthe ether apps | use (gaming and atherwise) have had any problems withthe dive in question Ush. © Tae gia cha dé da chon bai dang nay lam cau tra I8i cho thaic méc ban dau. 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And, since my games were al saved in team's cloud, there was no problem resuming where let off in those games. ‘Thanks very much for that suggestion, keira, [Anyone stumbling ito this iss fhe it the following way. Manually create the SteamLibray folder Point Steam to that fléer through the “other location” option when adding a storage location ‘The U shows the drive asf Steam was pointed atthe bare dive, instead of a manually rented folder xen von bl she Anyone stumbng ita this suet fed ithe following way Manual create the Steambbrary folder Pint Steam to tat flder through the “ether location” option when adlng a storageThe Ut show creates folder dhve a Stam was poled atthe bare cre, intend ofa marly This wotked out perfectly, thanks! Fa pA ‘Ok Ihad the same problem tried all the fxes except reinstall the OS (Win 13). hat did work Rename the steam folder to steams Clean instal of Stear Ln sa cub apelQ > FR: 4 Tg 2023 @ 7:58 no For the people rot wanting to reinstall steam this issue mainly seems to happen when you replace a dsk with a new ane but keep the same div letter. Steam expects thereto be a folder to write to but thee Isnt soi u make one the problem will be solved, you ean check \wihat the lcation shouldbe in the Ibraryolderssd file steamiconfigs (your main steam instal location), you can open the fle with notepad. twas having issues with issues with adéing my Eto be able to install games, kept geting the not writable’ eros, ‘The above post from imuveats sobed it for me. I checked C:\Program Files (x86)Steamiconfig\[Link] and showed that my ‘Steambibrary folder for E was rot in te root directory. | previously had games onthe «ve, but reformatted it changed where the Steambibrary was to mateh the Norarfolcersvf and was able to add It with no problems, ‘Adaing this here for future people since! lent see it mentioned while skimming |[Link] I to choose Add Drive from storage dropdown, but instead of cheasing the ‘five, chaote “Let me choose another location ‘Then select ether the root ofthe ctve if it works, too lazy to dauble check), oF create a fotler (what | alvays 60), name it whateverigames/steamietc, and choose it a the install, Do same if you copy game files manually (typically what tm doing, but was tying to be lazy and make steam do it) Reason Im here, i Ih forgotten tis afer the steam layout changes and ckn't see the choose other locaton at fs. ‘This thread was quit old before the recent pos, so we're locking it to prevent confusion. bang hn th 1-14 trong 24 binh lusMBltang: 35 50 50 “itch the udm > Didm dn Steam > Help and Tis > Chi tena © Vale Corpration io lds moi qu, Ta ch ce hung nig at sn ca cha eh tong Ung ta Hos Ky va ce se a Kh MO <8 Kang san ala te rang web nay due cung dp 66 geonames og Chinn sich bo mat | Php | ThBa thin agus ding ky Steam I V6 cokle