Steam problem

[lunar osprey]

I tried clear cache, i tried repair library doest work

[upbeat ravine]

Check how much space your drive has free, also check its health with crystaldiskinfo

[lunar osprey]

free269

[upbeat ravine]

296 MB?

[lunar osprey]

gb

[upbeat ravine]

Meant GB lmao

Def not enough space for all those games

[lunar osprey]

ive download it just cant update

[upbeat ravine]

Have you restarted your computer lately?

[lunar osprey]

hold on let me try

still the same

[upbeat ravine]

Are you using a SSD or HDD for your storage drive?

[lunar osprey]

hdd

[upbeat ravine]

Ok, download crystaldiskinfo. That will tell you the health of the drive

[upbeat ravine]

Ok, so a dying drive isn't the issue.

Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing one of the games?

@lunar osprey

[lunar osprey]

yea

i can play some of the games

but the ones i show cant

[upbeat ravine]

Have you tried running steam as administrator?

[lunar osprey]

yes

[upbeat ravine]

Are you the only person that uses this computer?

[lunar osprey]

yes

[upbeat ravine]

Try reinstalling steam

[lunar osprey]

okay

still cant

[upbeat ravine]

Did you completely un-install it?

[lunar osprey]

yes

[upbeat ravine]

Hmm, did you somehow manage to accidentally trigger a write-protect on that drive?

[lunar osprey]

idk about that

no i think

[upbeat ravine]

Screwing around in file explorer

[lunar osprey]

and?

[upbeat ravine]

Only thing I can think of is something happened in drive.

How long has it been doing this?

[lunar osprey]

2days ago just came back from uni

[upbeat ravine]

Computer been off the whole time?

[lunar osprey]

no my brother use it sometimes

he rarely use it

istg if he messed up my steam

[upbeat ravine]

Can't be your steam install. You just did a fresh install of it. You could ask him and see if he fucked with anything

[lunar osprey]

he only play his money game in google

[upbeat ravine]

He just a kid?

[lunar osprey]

no

my older brother

[upbeat ravine]

Ah

Either way, I would go ask him, just in case if he did fuck something up

[lunar osprey]

weird thing is i can play this

[lunar osprey]

okay

[upbeat ravine]

Anything?

[lunar osprey]

its 4am

im in asia

sooo gonna wait for tomorrow

[upbeat ravine]

Ah, fair. Its 1:00 PM here in California rn

[lunar osprey]

ahh

i see

[lunar osprey]

well he didn’t do anything

[upbeat ravine]

At this point, I would take a leisurely stroll through the steam forums and see if someone else had had this issue and found a fix

[lunar osprey]

okay

[brave swallow]

This and permission errors most commonly happen from either dying or corrupted drives; if taking ownership back and running steam as admin didn't fix it.. the only thing i can suggest is to reformat that drive and hope it works properly

It's rare for it to happen, but possible that the smart values are reporting the drive as "fine" when it's realistically about to kick the bucket

[upbeat ravine]

Had them check the drive with crystaldiskinfo, drive is at 91% health

But it being corrupted it a possibility

[brave swallow]

read the second message

[upbeat ravine]

I really need to read the entire message before I respond.

[brave swallow]

Is okay

[lunar osprey]

well i look like a dumbass now

[upbeat ravine]

What happened?

[lunar osprey]

soo the administrator thing

i exit steam and

run it as administrator

and tadaa

[upbeat ravine]

Lmao.

Well, its fixed now

[lunar osprey]