Non-Steam games gone, backup of shortcuts.vdf doesn't work?

Squishpoke · 02-16-2012, 01:21 AM

What is this?!

I made a backup copy of shortcuts.vdf in config, but it's not restoring my non-steam shortcuts!

I have tons of them! Some only works with custom target URLS!

IT WILL TAKE ME HOURS TO FIX

TeKraken · 02-16-2012, 01:59 AM

do you mean sharedconfig.vdf file?

Squishpoke · 02-16-2012, 02:08 AM

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

TeKraken · 02-16-2012, 02:29 AM

did you try a restart of steam? They may be recoverable from the cloud.

derrman0426 · 02-16-2012, 02:31 AM

Did you do backup the right one?

The 'shortcuts.vdf' in 'Steam\config' has nothing in it. But the 'shortcuts.vdf' in 'Steam\userdata\<userid>\config' has all the info on my Non-Steam games.

Squishpoke · 02-16-2012, 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by derrman0426

Did you do backup the right one?

The 'shortcuts.vdf' in 'Steam\config' has nothing in it. But the 'shortcuts.vdf' in 'Steam\userdata\<userid>\config' has all the info on my Non-Steam games.

/facepalm

Here, have some rep for pointing that out. Apparently I did back up the wrong one.

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02-16-2012, 01:59 AM	#2
TeKraken Join Date: Nov 2011 Reputation: 4619 Posts: 6,064	do you mean sharedconfig.vdf file?

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Squishpoke Join Date: Oct 2011 Reputation: 115 Posts: 876	nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

02-16-2012, 02:29 AM	#4
TeKraken Join Date: Nov 2011 Reputation: 4619 Posts: 6,064	did you try a restart of steam? They may be recoverable from the cloud.

02-16-2012, 02:31 AM	#5
derrman0426 Join Date: Jan 2010 Reputation: 1153 Posts: 2,705	Did you do backup the right one? The 'shortcuts.vdf' in 'Steam\config' has nothing in it. But the 'shortcuts.vdf' in 'Steam\userdata\<userid>\config' has all the info on my Non-Steam games.