I lost all my steam categories, is there any way to recover them?

bumpy

I had the same thing happen to me...set up Steam on a new PC, and apparently it looks locally first, so there were no categories. When I logged back on to my PC where I'd spent hours sorting through hundreds of games...everything was gone.

Why can't Steam handle a simple cloud sync like this? New endpoints should never override the master.

I've had this happen temporarily before. Fixed itself after I exited Steam and restarted. Good luck.

I had it happen not long ago... Had to exit Steam, log in with a web browser, then log out of there, and then restart Steam. Then they magically all reappeared, whew!

This happened to me once... I managed to recover an older set of categorizations by looking on another computer that had not synced recently, and backing up the categories before it could do so. Perhaps you could also recover them from a backup of your %appdata% or .config (is that where it's stored on linux? I have no idea).

Good luck! And I certainly hope that steam fixes this someday...

So sorry... Depending on what your categories looked like, maybe you could use Depressurizer to quickly recover (some of) them?

Had the same issue. Selfsolved after ~15minutes. Its a steam problem.

This is why I use Depressurizer to categorize my steam games. I can restore the categorizes if/when steam messes them up.

I do not know how it works in Linux, but in Windows that information is stored in Program Files (x86) / Steam / userdata / xxxxxxxx ..
If you are forced to have to categorize your library again, maybe Depressurizer will help you.
Another good tool is GameSave Manager. That makes backups of the aforementioned files. But it only works on Windows 😅

I had the same issue, with different solutions every time. What worked for me once, was to create a category (a category that I had before) and then all of them popped back. But most of the times it helps to restart Steam a few times. Or perhaps the pc. It is very annoying and if you have a lot of games, gives you a minor seizure.

I am curious to see your steam category :). This too happened to me once and there was no way to recover it. Thank god that time i only have around hundred games. After that i categorized my games with only these category: BACKLOG, RE-PLAY, RETIRED, THE NEW GAME. I also made spreadsheet of all my games and with the same category, just in case same thing happen again.

Have you tried Clear Download Cache in Settings>Downloads?

This would be my biggest fear. Is there any way to save a backup or in which file are they stored?
Can Depressurizer read one's categories and save them?

Found out myself.