👑[Enhancement] Revert to or Enable old family/liberary share

[F00lsGold]

Hi, I've been a multi-account user for a long time, back when Steam had some serious regional price discrimination. Recently, I accidentally created a NEW steam family, it fxxked up all my sharing. Now I have to login to different account to play games. The new family share doesn't function in my case, as my other accounts are in a different region. Steam says the new one completely replace the old one, but it seems to me they exist at the same time, I just need a way to toggle it back to the older version. Here's my discovery.

09/26/2024

I have main account A, alt account B, C. I enabled NEW family sharing on A, lost access to lib B, C. I thought I could just use the new family function, hence enabled new sharing on B. Steam tells me since they are in a different region, B cannot join A's family. I deleted A's family, re-apply for B's lib, here's what I got.

I then re-apply for C's lib, notice C didn't have new family function enabled. It succeed.

A and B's family page looks like this

While C's looks like this

It seems to me that they've just disabled a layout, is there a way to enable this layout?

[rmbadmin]

win+r：steam://open/console steam console: device_authorize_local [description]

For now, you can manually use the old version family sharing in this way, but the prerequisite is that it cannot be used simultaneously with the new family sharing

[GlitchyGlitched]

What would you have to put in the [description] part of the command?

[F00lsGold]

win+r：steam://open/console steam console: device_authorize_local [description]

For now, you can manually use the old version family sharing in this way, but the prerequisite is that it cannot be used simultaneously with the new family sharing

Should I be doing _device_authorizelocal on account B, [description] is account name A?

[F00lsGold]

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