We're seeing even more leaks out of a recent Steam Beta update from Valve that not only hinted at the SteamPal console, and the new Downloads page but also a big overhaul to the Library manager.

If you only have one storage drive, you've probably never used it or even looked at it. In the Steam Client, you can set where you want Steam to install downloads into, with it being pretty darn archaic right now and not so useful. I give you Exhibit A:

Thanks once again to Pavel Djundik of SteamDB for pointing out the new leak on Twitter, we know that Valve are testing a complete overhaul to bring it in line with their modern styling. Note: you need to opt into the Steam Beta.

Alternative Fix (Credit to Fred) Go to steam settings Downloads Steam library folders. Add the game folder, in this case steamgames. Install a small game on your new steam folder. (Just find a free game that seems small) // What this is going to do is it make a new steam directory for your games. Move all your previously installed games. Now you can add your steam library without problem, Go to Steam, then Settings, open the tab Downloads and click the Steam Library Folders. Now add your steam library folder, on our example its “G:/YOURSTEAMLIBRARY”. It should look like the screenshot below. Small tool to add additional library folders to Steam. The primary use of this tool is to easily add library folders on drives that already have library folders on them. Steam restricts this for some reason. Dependencies: Python 3.9.5; Pyinstaller 4.3; To release: $ py -3.9 release.py. External code used: vdf 3.4.

It's currently a little on the broken side but you can easily see where they're going with this:

Steam Library Folder Empty

Would be nice if having a library unmounted didn't mean needing to re-add. the library. Better if Steam were AWARE that a given drive were not mounted, and would allow you to refresh your library after mounting said drive(s). With permission-less mounting of EXT4, Steam could probably even mount the drive for you as-needed. Click Steam (from the top-left corner of the window) Settings. Go to the Download and click STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS. Right-click on the folder that’s giving you trouble and select.

Steam Library Folder Same Drive

To enable it you need to open then Steam console by going to 'steam://open/console', and then enter 'bEnableNewContentManagement 1' to enable the feature (and 0 to turn it back off). To find the Download folders you go into Steam Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders.

Steam Libraryfolders.vdf

Once the styling on it is cleaned up, it looks to be far more useful giving you more data about each storage folder at a glance and yup - even a bit more console like I would say. Would fit in more on a SteamPal don't you think? Desktop too of course, it actually seems quite useful to get a proper breakdown like that.

What do you think?

Steam Library Folder Missing