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tralph3 / Steam-Metadata-Editor

An easy to use GUI that edits the metadata of your Steam Apps
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Modified appinfo.vdf was rejected and deleted by Steam #7

Open gitacct5 opened 2 years ago

gitacct5 commented 2 years ago

It seems like Steam will reject and delete appinfo.vdf if certain games' info gets edited. e.g. changing Dota 2 to Dota 3, Terraria to Terraria 2.

When launching Steam after the changes were applied, Steam will automatically delete appinfo.vdf and output an error message to the log file:

[2021-07-14 17:54:48] Corrupt data in binary buffer for app 570, CLN 11992097

[2021-07-14 17:58:30] Corrupt data in binary buffer for app 105600, CLN 11703200

This issue was occurred under Windows.

tralph3 commented 2 years ago

Huh... you're right.... god dammit back to the hex editor.

Condemnedfate commented 8 months ago

It seems like this is happening again on Linux, Debian/Ubuntu based using the flatpak. I'm on the steam beta branch if that matters.

Edit: getting the same error as op "[2023-10-19 20:13:10] Corrupt data in binary buffer for app 637090, CLN 20523190" which is for Battletech which isn't even the app I'm trying to edit (?). I don't even have Battletech installed. anyway it therefore causes steam to delete and repopulate the appinfo.vdf.