Comment on External storage on Steam OS is a problem
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoWell I wrote the message in anger after discovering that my games had disappeared again, so I haven’t spent much time investigating😅
Last time, in « storage » in Steam OS the hard drive would still appear, the space occupied by the games would still appear, but the games were nowhere to be found.
In desktop mode, I’d easily find them, but there was no way to show Steam OS the path to these games again.
I’ve tried many workarounds found on the web, but none worked.
I ended up reinstalling my whole library. But now it’s the same thing with Retrodeck on top (although retrodeck might be easier to just move as you can change the path to games)
The way Valve set up the Deck is that the only storage initialized is the internal SSD and the SD card in big picture mode (home menu) which makes sense if you’re playing on the go - you’re not going to hold an external HDD in your offhand on the plane lol.
I believe using the dock doesn’t have any impact on how the Deck handles drives either, the official FAQ mentions it’s more akin to “plugging an external USB hub”, so that won’t solve the automount issue.
iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Yeah, that sounds like what was happening with my SD card. I followed a guide to path it correctly, but even that didn’t work for a little while (which led me to upgrading the SSD). I think an update fixed the SD library snafu, though, because I haven’t had that issue for the last six months, at least.