Only imports a fraction of my Steam games about cartridges HOT 14 CLOSED

@forteller Hi. This is not a bug. In the Cartridges preferences, add your other Steam Library folders via "Extra Steam Libraries", where you can add all your extra library locations. There's no need to use Flatseal since we use Flatpak Portals to access the folder you pick. Just be sure to add the actual steam library folder, not its "steamapps" subfolder. If you've gone into "steamapps" or deeper, you've navigated too far.

Regarding your 7 games: We add the exact games that you've got appmanifests for, meaning that they're installed in your library. So everything you imported so far is installed on your machine. You probably have a 2nd Steam installation that you've forgotten about. By default we scan Flatpak Steam if we find that (~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/), else ~/.steam/steam/. The first of these locations that was found is then saved to your permanent config and always re-used after that. If you want to change the path to your main Steam Library, to prevent the import of your "abandoned" 7 games, use "Steam Install Location" to change that path.

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@Bananaman Just a small correction: we scan ~/.steam/steam/ before the Flatpak location.

However @forteller, if the issue was not you having multiple install locations, please do get back with more info, preferably on Discord so we can help diagnose the problem.

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Just a small correction: we scan ~/.steam/steam/ before the Flatpak location.

Oh yeah, I forgot that the xml schema defaults to that path:

So that path will be checked first.

I was only reading the search order if Steam is missing, here:

So @forteller it's likely that an old, native Steam path was found first and then your Flatpak Steam path was ignored.

Anyway, please let us know how it goes. There shouldn't be any scenario where Steam still contains appmanifest files for un-installed games. I've never seen that. So the games it imported almost certainly exist on your disk.

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Closing this as invalid since the most likely answer has been posted. Please get back with a followup. If there is an issue, we'll reopen it.

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Hi. Thanks for the replies! Before I had Steam installed as a Flatpak I had it installed as a regular package. Maybe that's the issue here? But I don't understand what I should do to make Cartridges find my games from the Steam I use now. I searched in Gnome Files for "Steam" to try and find what folder I should set in the Extra Steam Libraries setting, but didn't find anything relevant.

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@forteller you should set your "Steam Install Location" to ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/ (or wherever the "steam" folder is inside of that).
I hope that helps!

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Thanks, that worked! But most of the new games that was added does not have an image…?

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@forteller did you add the new library as an "Extra Steam Library" or as the "Steam Install Location"? You should add it as your main Steam install location.

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@kra-mo Well, I was told to add it as Extra, so that's what I did. But I guess this is such an edge case that it's not worth dwelling any more on.

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you should set your "Steam Install Location" to ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/ (or wherever the "steam" folder is inside of that).

This doesn't work for me. I get an error saying 'Installation not found', but when I point it to ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam there is no error, but no games are imported.

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@superrnovae Are you sure your games are installed there? Not on a different drive?

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@superrnovae Are you sure your games are installed there? Not on a different drive?

Yes, I keep games on the same drive as my os.

You're right, I forgot my games are in the separate partition. I have added it to extra locations. All my games have successfully been imported. Thank you !

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Are appmanifest files (appmanifest_XXXX.acf) present in ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/steamapps?

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Are appmanifest files (appmanifest_XXXX.acf) present in ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/steamapps?

See my edit above. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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