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"post": {
"title": "steam disk write error",
"selftext": "I am unable to download or even update anything on steam suddenly, i am faced with the error \"disk write error\". i have tried everything such as unninstalling and reinstalling the client, running steam as administrator, checking for corrupted files and nothing has worked. i would like to know how i can fix this issue as i have just recently purchased a new game and i am unable to even play it.\n\nThanks",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/steamsupport/comments/16evitb/steam_disk_write_error/"
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"comments": [
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"body": "open up windows explorer, go to the disk in which steam and it's game files are installed too, right click the steam folder, go to properties, uncheck the read-only box so it is blank, apply and let it run. try launching the game. \n\nthis should honestly work for any platform too ubisoft, ea, battlenet etc.\n\nyou should also be able to launch it as administrator from the shortcut.\n\nedit: if you’re having issues with it rechecking, check your permissions. give the account/administrator full access to the file, it should solve that issue.",
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"body": "Fucking hell thank you I went through at least 20 different youtube tutorials just to fix it and this was the guide that I needed once again thank you"
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"body": "you are a savior 🙏🙏 thank you so much man"
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"body": "it didnt work for me\n\n=( any help?",
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"body": "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. For the last week I have been just deleting games to get rid of this headache. Just got a 2nd ssd last month to load all my games on and the past week with mostly updates I kept getting this error only to not allow me to play my games. I (we) really can't Thank you enough!!"
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"body": "Thank you soooo much!!!"
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"body": "Anyone know how to do this on mac?",
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"body": "I've even fiddled with the permissions to try to give steam the abil,ity to patch games again before i found this thread.\n\nThanks man, i wasn't even looking at the read-only checkmark, i honestly wonder why it was even set. Steam bug?\n\nAnyway, thanks a ton."
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"body": "Just want to add to the +1 thank you. Also went through 10 different fixes lol"
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"body": "i love you thank you"
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"body": "thank you bro i love you"
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"body": "whenever I do that it just switches read-only thing back on",
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"body": "this did not help"
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"body": "I'll be... it worked! Thank you kindly!"
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"body": "New to computers, can you describe this in a way I can understand it better thanks alot",
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"body": "Thank you, legend. \n\n\nEdit- Worked shortly, but after a minute or less rechecks read only every time. is there a security setting or something i should change?",
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"body": "been trying to download helldivers a week ago it took me 3 days to eventually get it to download but a few days ago it wouldn't open so I uninstalled it to download it again and I've got the same problem. I've tried everything I can find, Idk what else there is to do. It gets to about 94% then it stops",
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"body": "Worked great! Thanks so much! (I also restarted my computer afterwards just for good measure.) Goodness this damn thing had been fighting me for a while! 👍"
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"body": "im getting this error often and randomly with random games across 2 different SSD's. I've tried literally everything including this and the only thing thats ever worked for me is a full uninstall and reinstall on another drive. Ever since the last steam update it's been fucked.",
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"body": "You're a life savior fam, thank you"
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{
"body": "need this Pinned honestly."
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"body": "Sigma alpha male"
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{
"body": "for some reason it checks again"
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"body": "Thank you so much!!!"
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"body": " \nthank you!! this worked for me."
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"body": "i tried doing so but the files automatically get back to read only once i apply and ok the properties. what should i do"
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"body": "Thank you KING!!"
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"body": "Thank you, you beautiful person, you. For anyone else wherein the read only box keeps rechecking itself and the disk write error is still present, do a PC restart. It worked for me after that."
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"body": "what is windows explorer it doesnt show up on my pc"
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"body": "Steamapps folder? or steam, cause steam is on C but the game I wanna download to a drive is going into d and in d theres the steamapps"
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{
"body": "I owe you a beer"
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"body": "I was searching every possible way to fix this error. Then I started reading this comment and thought to give it a shot, but all of sudden it started downloading while I am opening properties. magic"
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"body": "I do this, but for some reason, the steam folder I tick off the box and run it, but then I check it again and it's reticked it won't permanently untick"
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"body": "THANKYOU!!!!!"
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"body": "im not sure why but whenever i apply the unchecking of read only it rechecks it right away, anyone know why?",
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"body": "YOU SAVED MEEEEEEE!!!!!"
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"body": "ive been dealing otht his for the pat year THANK YOU"
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"body": "Holy hell!! You are a GODSEND !! I tough my SSD was faulty even if its brand new ( 1 month old ). But it is not which is freaking sweet. Thank you dude, may you have a wonderful life ahead of you."
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"body": "Did not solve the issue."
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"body": "Get this man a medal."
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"body": "tried this twice, but it still doesnt help. im gonna lose me games D:",
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"body": "thank you so much"
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"body": "Thank you"
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"body": "Followed this exactly, I'm getting the following error when I try launching the game: An error occured while launching this game: Disk Write Error."
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"body": "I have been trying to give it permission because every time i uncheck it, it rechecks. I have googled and tried edditing permsions in the secuirty tab. If someone could help that would be amazing.",
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"body": "This solution isn't working for me. I get a unityplayer.dll error."
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"body": "thank you brother 🙏"
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"body": "You're a genius!\nNot all heroes wear capes!"
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"body": "My account says it's an administrator but whenever I try to uncheck the read-only box it still changes it back. Idk what's happening",
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"body": "fucking love u"
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"body": "Thank you man! <3"
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"body": "I have admin rights, but it just comes back, issue not fixed :("
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"body": "Doesn't work for me"
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"body": "check what permissions were"
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"body": "actual god"
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"body": "I am at a loss as to how to allow admins permissions to full access🙃 it's all greyed out for me..."
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{
"body": "legend, i've had this issue for months, I thought my disk drives were corrupted"
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"body": ">!**Legend**!<"
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{
"body": "thank you so much! it did absolutely nothing!"
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"body": "I would like to add that for me it helped to turn off read-only on the \"common\" folder inside \"steamapps\". Almost seems like it sped up my wifi aswell I am getting like twice as high MB/s than I usually get"
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"body": "My son was having this same issue , couldn't find the steam install files but ran steam as administrator that worked though and installed rec room "
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"body": "Our savior \n\nThank you so much S2"
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{
"body": "Wow thank you so much dude you are a life saver"
},
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"body": "This needs way more upvotes. Thank you!"
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"body": "Didn't work. Trying to download Skyrim on steam and I still can't. Any other suggestions?"
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"body": "I cant find the read-only box!! help!!"
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"body": "For anyone else finding this thread, I couldn't get the file from rechecking \"read only\" but I solved the the issue by completely closing Steam and relaunching as administrator. It downloaded a small update and now works as normal again. Time for some managed democracy."
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"body": "how do you do this?? (im new to computer files)"
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{
"body": "says i don't have permission"
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"body": "Why the hell would it be on \"read only\"? (mine was)"
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"body": "anything for mac\n\nmy brother has this issue and im not familiar with mac"
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"body": "You fucking legend"
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"body": "thanks bro wtf how you know this"
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"body": "You are a GOD DAMN HERO.\n\nWarhammer 3 has been disk write erroring for months, installed it 5 times no dice. Fuckin read only tag."
},
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"body": "My issue was that the SteamLibrary Folder was missing a steamapps subfolder. I removed the drive from the storage list in steam settings, then reinstated it. Fixed my issue."
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{
"body": "Thanks dude! Worked perfectly when installing [Beam.ng](http://Beam.ng) drive for my birthday! You're a real one dude."
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"body": "So this didn't work for me. Launching as admin did work, and when I went back to check on the files again, the Read-only was checked again"
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"body": "I never set this folder to Read only, so I'm assuming it's something Steam normally lifts whenever it's updating the game files? I spent an HOUR trying to whitelist various things, restarting... and 2 minutes waiting to uncheck read only fixed it. AWESOME"
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"body": "I'm on Windows 11. I didn't see a \"read-only\" box in Properties, but found a similar setting when I clicked on the \"security\" tab, then Edit Permissions. I gave all users full control and my download worked."
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"body": "Hey man, I just wanted to take a moment to say thanks for your response to the OP. It instantly fixed my Steam issue. Your help made a significant difference to me and my friends, and I truly appreciate it!",
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"body": "I did this and after it reapplied it"
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"body": "Bro help me... I keep doing it and it keeps reverting back to read only. Ive turned off firewalls and everything. I am stumped."
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"body": "Thank you. This worked for me."
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"body": "you legend, I'm a dumbass and fell for a scam antimalware service that would 'fix' my issue. Yep its on me i know that but ffs youre a legend"
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"body": "thank you!"
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"body": "I only closed steam and tried launching the game and it worked just fine"
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"body": "I'm going to add to this only because i still had the issue after unchecking the read-only box and allowing full permissions. If anyone is still having problems after doing those steps you need to do a clean/fresh install.\n\n\nGo into hard-drive its stored in and uninstall it from the folder, then delete the folder and empty the recycling bin. \n\n\nCheck for a steam folder in your program files (x64) mine had a folder hidden there you may need to allow hidden files to show from the view tab. \n\n\nOnce you know all folders are deleted and emptied from the recycling bin reinstall the steam app. \n\n\nNow when it gives you a destination to install to make sure you're sending it to your SSD and not HDD.\n\n\nWhen you re-download steam vr do the same thing send it to the SSD and not the HDD. For whatever reason steam vr will not work in a hard disk drive do to speed issues. \n\n\nOnce I sent both to my solid state it worked like a charm with no issues. Hope this helps. Cheers. "
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{
"body": "Legend"
},
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"body": "Champion! ♥"
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{
"body": "Worked for me today, thank you."
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{
"body": "6 months later and you're a saint"
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"body": "what if its already unchecked and it still gives me a disk write error?"
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"body": "holy shit it actually worked you are a fucking legend \n\n(I was downloading Tekken 8 thats 97 gb for the whole day and I thought i lost all progress)"
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"body": "Thank you. I'm not sure why all of a sudden I magically had the problem in the first place but this fixed it. I hate computers sometimes"
},
{
"body": "SI no funciona, intenten desactivar temporalmente su anti virus, a mi me funciono"
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"body": "You legend! Still works!"
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"body": "As soon as i read this i knew this was the issue. Fucking hell. \"delete these files, re-install these windows redistributables, try it manually, run in admin, etc, etc, etc.\" ... Just... just fuckin turn off the read only that somehow got triggered. Thank you."
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"body": "you literally just saved me with my metaphor refantazio preload\n\nthank you very much!!!"
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"body": "This is extremely helpful. I've been trying to update BeamNG.drive for 3 days and all i kept getting was the error disc write error and it was annoying. so i did what any person would do and resorted to reddit and as most of the time reddit helped"
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"body": "Thanks you"
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"body": "<33 dunno why this was needed all of a sudden tho, literally was playing as usual this morning and when I got home from work nothing worked."
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"body": "how do I give the account/administrator full access to the file?"
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"body": "i love you thank you for telling us how to fix this shit"
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"body": "you have my undying gratitude"
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"body": "unfortunately this didnt end up working for me",
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"body": "\n\nI just spent 3 hours helping my cousin that installed a DLC for his game then this happenned. If nothing else is working for you here is the fix I found.\n\n1) Press the arrow icon at the bottom right of your screen\n\n2) Right click on the AVG Antivirus Option\n\n3) A box will open at the bottom right of the screen. At the bottom of that box you will see a slider to turn off the antivirus. Click that slider\n\n4) When the screen pops up asking if you are sure you want to shut it off, press okay stop and that should fix it.",
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"body": "F\\*\\*\\*U Steam! Most importantly... F\\*\\*\\*U Microsoft! \n\nSo sick and tired of this nightmare...",
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"body": "try [https://www.reddit.com/r/ErrorForge/comments/1d6cf27/how\\_to\\_fix\\_disk\\_read\\_error\\_on\\_steam\\_quick\\_easy/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ErrorForge/comments/1d6cf27/how_to_fix_disk_read_error_on_steam_quick_easy/)"
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"body": "this worked - [https://quoramarketing.com/fix-steam-disk-write-error/](https://quoramarketing.com/fix-steam-disk-write-error/)",
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"body": "Tks so much for this link, repairing the steam library fix worked for me!"
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"body": "I click the uncheck box and it applies, but it shows as enabled when i click on properties again. Any ideas?",
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"body": "A solution I had recently was the manually move the files to a new drive, then move them back to the drive I actually want the game on.\n\nIf you only have 1 drive enabled for steam games you'll need to go to steam settings and then storage. There's a drop down menu for drives. Select add drive. I'd also suggest downloading or moving a small game over to the new drive so steam automatically creates the folders you'll need in the new drive location. \n\n\nNow open the folder explorer tool twice. In the new drive find \"Steamlibrary, Steamapps, common\" and leave then open. In the second find the game files on the original drive. Same location, steamlibrary - steamapps- common. Then just move the files over to the new drive common. \n\n\nNow go to your steam library and tell steam to uninstall the game. Then go to install it again. But this time tell steam to download it into the new drive location. Instead of downloading it will just verify the files since the game is already there. And now the game should update properly no disk write error. \n\n\nAfter this you can go to your game in your library, open properties, installed files, and move it back to the original drive.",
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"body": "Not sure if somebody already said this but I fixed mine by right clicking on the whole Steam folder->Properties->Security tab-> first box where it says \"Users \\*\\*\\*\"->EDIT (right below box)->Click \"Users\" thing again->\"Full Control\" tick box\n\nPress or click \"Apply\" then \"Ok\" (doing this one in Windows 10) and it'll allow Steam to write to the drive as you signed in to your desktop as regular user (not restricted I believe).\n\n \nIt took a sec to do all the files but when it does just \"retry\" in the updates box or whatever, it'll re-read / validate the files again after restarting doing it a couple times. Done.\n\nIt literally just started doing this for me on a new Windows install I moved the Steam folder to just now, off my second HDD running Steam off a SSD. It's usually either a read-write issue or security tab issue as something IN Windows or other OS is not allowing Steam to do what it needs to do with files. Security block. For various reasons, could be. Usually just enables by default sometimes.",
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"body": "This is allllll cap. I've been here for hours trying every solution, they all don't work, I guess I'll reinstall my 100gig game for the 2 gig patch I need to play the digital property I own",
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"body": "I still have this issue and none of the solutions here have helped.",
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"body": "I fixed my issues trough my antivirus software, it didn’t let me download anything, make sure you check that too or turn it off, i use aura witch has a feature to allow programs to download and install stuff i just made sure it let steam and the other clients allowed to install/download games and such",
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"body": "cfuytjg"
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"body": "Idk how it worked but it has just fixed the issue for me thank you 🙏🙏"
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"body": "doesnt work",
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"body": "I have this error come up all the time with my year old external SSD and I still have 1.75 TB free I formatted it over and over in the hope that it would correct the problem",
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"body": "For me, it was because my storage was full but for some reason steam gave me \"disk write error\" instead of \"Not enough space\"",
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"body": "If you have your stuff stored on an external hard drive try to unplug it and plug it back in."
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"body": "Life saver. 81d old and still working !"
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"body": "Clearing the download cache on steam helped me 👍"
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"body": "Fixed it for me! Ive used steam for years though... Why the sudden change?"
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"body": "In my case it was AVG's fault. Just clicked on the AVG icon on the tray, disabled it and the error disappeared."
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"body": "All I did was uninstall and reinstall. Works every time."
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"body": "NOTHING FKING WORKS\n\nOMGGGGGGGG",
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"body": "Running Steam as administrator worked for me.",
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"body": "Hi everyone, I had the same issue that just started today. I tried a few of the things mentioned here and it didn't work. \n\n \nI ended up uninstalling/reinstalling steam and it seemed to work. Windows firewall popped up asking for access. be sure to allow. Its working just fine for me now. Hope that helps."
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"body": "Fix this by: \n1: Fully close steam, even in de background \n2: Search for steam app \n3: Right click on it \n4: Click on \"Run as Administrator\"\n\nIf you try to download your game again the problem should be fixed"
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"body": "the ONLY THING that worked is right-click on steam and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR. I hope this helps someone.",
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"body": "I recently encountered this issue and the cause was the connection of my hdd to the mobo. I recently cleaned my PC and seems that I've accidentally moved the SATA cable doing so. At that time my disk usage was always 50% when idle and I had issues with updating games in Battlenet as well (which is installed in my hdd too).\n\nDisconnect and reconnected the SATA cable and it's working properly again."
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"body": "Turns out my anti virus decided to put my game into quarantine so I can't download it. Check the anti virus if it's preventing your game to download.",
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"body": "In steam settings>storage>clear cache"
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"body": "Regarding the so-called fix below: When you see the Read Only check box, the dialogue says it only applies to the files within the folders, not to the folders themselves. So unchecking read only will not change anything. Really \"ticking\" me off! 😉\n\n \nRemove that library and start over. Create a new folder (if you haven't already) in the root of the drive Go to Settings then to Storage, then add a new drive and click \"Let me choose another location\" and then add a new folder when the windows explorer window pops up. Select that folder you've been wanting to use."
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"body": "Check this out my friends, might help you : \n\nI have and old hdd and now i bought a sata3 ssd. Wanted to install my new games on the ssd, but i had a bottleneck during download/instalation. My download speed would fall to 0 and my write speed was always about 3mbps… ducked… \n\nSo what i did to fix it was : \n\nMade sure my ssd was properly fitted into a sata3 6gbps port on my motherboard. \nUnistalled steam and reinstalled it directly on my SSD (which will make the ssd as primary drive for steam, as default) \nInstall the game again in the ssd directly. Now my download speed matches writting speed, no more bottlenecks. My speed is shit at only 25mbps but no more bottleneck now. \n\nWhat i think it was doing was that it was downloading the game in the old hdd and then trying to write it in the sdd… hence the bottleneck. \n\nGood luck guys !"
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"body": "for anyones not working and you tried all the other things in the comments, try turning off your antivirus, i have AVG which seems to cause a lot of problems for me with games and steam but when i turned off the antivirus it worked first try.",
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"body": "Many thanks! I was trying to update a game and had to reinstall it afterwards for this to fix it."
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"body": "On Mac you gotta give steam full disk acesss btw"
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"body": "For anyone with a Mac\n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/ja53ecvjzbhd1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3afbff9ef913713774bfc769045359aef6035c4",
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"body": "I just spent 3 hours helping my cousin that installed a DLC for his game then this happenned. If nothing else is working for you here is the fix I found.\n\n1) Press the arrow icon at the bottom right of your screen\n\n2) Right click on the AVG Antivirus Option\n\n3) A box will open at the bottom right of the screen. At the bottom of that box you will see a slider to turn off the antivirus. Click that slider\n\n4) When the screen pops up asking if you are sure you want to shut it off, press okay stop and that should fix it."
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"body": "If you have an anti virus look for shootergame_BE.exe \nAnd will show the path to where the game would be but it’s just the files yours going to be missing strange why my antivirus put it in quarantine.\n\n\n\nEdit: I was trying to install ark not sure what other games do it but ark has a path file that gets pulled by the antivirus which I’ve never had happen. So make sure when looking in your anti virus you know the file name or look for anything that says steam and that will be the one you need to either take out of quarantine or try and recover that part of the file."
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"body": "Thankyou so much, randomly this gave me an error. I exited steam, went to steam folder in program files and righclicked and unchecked read only. Relaunched steam and my downloads started working."
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"body": "I'm having this problem trying to install Forever Skies to one of my internal drives. I've tried clearing cache, repairing library and unchecking \"read only\" in the folder properties (it immediately comes back if not does nothing at all). I have no idea what to do next and I'm getting super annoyed."
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"body": "So I was getting this error while trying to update a few games and everything recommended in this thread failed for me. After browsing other threads, someone suggested to move a game file location (if more than one drive exists) and then try to move it back. I tried that and it appeared to be successful. Once back in Steam, it would only show the INSTALL button. If I clicked INSTALL, it would then say \"Missing File Privileges\". I googled that issue which lead me to this thread: \n\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/comments/v4558q/steam\\_missing\\_file\\_privileges\\_issue\\_looking\\_for/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/comments/v4558q/steam_missing_file_privileges_issue_looking_for/)\n\nThe second step of the first comment is what worked for me. I will copy/paste the comment here though so it's just right here in this thread.\n\n\n\nPosted by [dragoninmyanus](https://www.reddit.com/user/dragoninmyanus/) \nMake sure administrators have permission of the Steamapps folder:\n\n1. Find the Steamapps folder on your computer (Likely C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Steam\\\\Steamapps)\n2. Right click the Steamapps folder > Properties\n3. Go to the Security tab\n4. Click Advanced (near the bottom right)\n5. Find Administrators in the list and make sure its access is set to Full control\n6. Check the \"Replace all child object permission entries\\~\" near the bottom.\n7. Click OK\n\nNow make sure you grant FULL hidden admin access to your user account by following this guide:\n\n1. Open a command prompt in admin mode\n2. Type gpedit and press enter\n3. Navigate to Computer Settings\\\\Windows settings\\\\Security settings\\\\Local policies\\\\Security options\n4. Locate the following policy: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode\n5. Set it to Disabled.\n6. Reboot PC."
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"body": "Solution for me was turning off my anti virus, worked straight away. Hope this helps"
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"body": "This happened to me, because Avast Quarantined a steam asset. :\\[",
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"body": "This happened to me.. What I did was…\n\nRight click into the drive that steam is located at such as B: C: D: ect\n\nClick properties and click security \n\nthen click on system,administrators, and Users\n(You do one at atime )\n\nMake sure all permissions are checked to allowed.\n\nClick OK and it will scan all the files from that drive and add permissions. \n\nOnce completed you will be able to update your games again."
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"body": "It’s happened a few times restart ox and usually fixes it",
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"body": "Instead of removing read-only via Windows Explorer, I went to Program Files (x86) in an admin PowerShell (I don't think admin privileges are required) then used the attrib command (after fully closing Steam):\n\n attrib -r .\\Steam /d\n attrib -r .\\Steam\\*.* /d /s\n\nRe-opened Steam and it worked again!"
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"body": "I found an easy fix on my end, may not help everyone BUT you could try. I have a VPN and Security software that I had to turn off in order to resolve. GOOD LUCK\n\n"
},
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"body": "for anyone having a problem with it now i restarted my pc and trying to reinstall the game and everything is working fine"
},
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"body": "I had it for every game but it’s fixed now but I want to install hell divers 2 but it keeps getting disk write errors it is the only game that does it and I’ve tried looking up everything anyone got a fix?"
},
{
"body": "Go to Steam Setting and in download, repair the disc."
},
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"body": "bonjour, je cherche de l'aide j'ai tout essayer a fin d'installer mon jeux qui est beam ng drive aucun moyen la case lecteur seule se recoche toute seule un vrai cauchemard je suis au bout si quelqu'un a un solution ?"
},
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"body": "Avast antivirus was qurantining \"...\\\\Steam\\\\steamapps\\\\common\\\\Satisfactory\\\\FactoryGameSteam.exe\", it was causing this exact issues for me and a few friends"
},
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"body": "Hello... I've had this issue for 2 years and after trying EVERYTHING the only solution I found was putting an auto clicker everytime the download paused because of the disk write error, this made it take a lot more time than what would be needed to donwload any game normally. I wanted to ask if anyone has found a solution for this problem yet."
},
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"body": "If none of these things work and if u haven't thought about this just change the USB connection I plugged my hard drive to another USB port and it worked"
},
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"body": "I had this problem today while updating Space Marine 2. Turns out my antivirus had quarantined one of Steams files, once I restored it and added an exception everything worked. Hope this helps."
},
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"body": "For me the problem was some of the game paths in my library were still pointing to the old Library drive rather than the new one. No idea how some were on the old path and some on the new path. I had to manually edit the \\\\Steam\\\\steamapps\\\\\\*.acf files to fix it."
},
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"body": "Anyone have any other fixes for this? I'm still getting the disc write error while trying to reinstall eso."
},
{
"body": "For those were it re self checks read only, you need to go out to the steam library folder on your drive that the game(s) with read error problems are installed and uncheck read only and if it ask apply to all subfolders and files. If you get what looks like a windows file transfer box with a progress bar. For some reason windows user account control thinks we are babies and need hyper protection. "
},
{
"body": "Try making sure your SteamLibrary folder is in your Steam folder. I was having the same issue when trying to install/uninstall/update games."
},
{
"body": "I've had this problem and I fixed it by uninstalling Ultra AV"
},
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"body": "i tried so much and nothing helped.\n\nbut fix for me was uninstalling steam with \"Uninstall Tool\" -> right click on steam -> \"Force Removal\" (it clears steam entries in the register)."
},
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"body": "all the previous solution did not work for me.\n\nMy fix was this: i think my problem is that i made myself the \"Steam\" folder...\n\ni deleted that one and restart Steam, than i got in Steam setting at storage and add a new drive, so Steam made a folder there...after that i was able to download and install games in that driver !"
},
{
"body": "Avast is the CULPRIT >:("
},
{
"body": "I've been having the same issue. Tried making everything read only and it didn't work. Found a different answer buried way down the conversation here and just wanted to give it more attention, since it fixed mine, If the problem recently started and you just got a new antivirus, turn off your antivirus. Worked for me. I'm gonna leave it off until I get everything updated, then figure out how to get it to leave steam alone, so the app can do its job."
},
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"body": "I just fixed mine today! <3 The easiest way is just go to Steam - Library - Downloads - click the Gear Icon - Clear Download Cache. And it's all fixed. Mine is downloading now! <3"
},
{
"body": "for everyone frustrated with this i had the peoblem for years always unstalling and installing games from week to week just uninstall and install steam itself its probably faster than reinstalling your games"
},
{
"body": "I haven't seen all the comments, but my solution was downloading the game on the drive Steam \"suggested\" for installation. Now the question is, why doesn't the steam allow the game to download on the drive that I want it on?"
},
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"body": "Bei mir hat die Version nicht funktioniert. Allerdings habe ich dann meine Mods gesichert, um eine Neuinstallation zu machen. Kaum starte ich Steam, lädt es das Update problemlos herunter und installiert es. Ich schiebe die Mods dann manuell zurück, und alles läuft wieder.\n\nEs kann also auch eine Möglichkeit sein, dass man einfach zu viele Mod-Dateien im Speicherort hat und Steam irgendwie von der Größe des Ordners überfordert ist. Ehrlich gesagt, keine Ahnung – aber bei mir hat das funktioniert. Vielleicht bringt’s wem was. Viel Spaß beim Spielen, ihr Blumen!"
},
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"body": "I’ll just put this here in case this happens to anyone. I tried everything and nothing worked, what happened was that I was using Norton Antivirus and for someone reason it found one single file for my game to run as a “threat” and quarantined it (basically just hiding it so it won’t affect my computer or any other file) meaning that everytime I tried to reinstall or update the game, it wouldn’t because that one file was missing. Best thing to do is find out if your antivirus has quarantined a file, find it’s location and restore and set it as “not a threat” (idk how other antiviruses work, but for Norton it was to look at Security -> Security History then find the file), so yea, just in case nothing else works :))"
},
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"body": "Thanks your a lifesaver"
},
{
"body": "Better option make a different partition of that partition and install there."
},
{
"body": "Thanks guys!!!"
},
{
"body": "I solved this by selecting my C: drive, which is the drive my windows is installed on."
},
{
"body": "The initial fix didnt work for me, but running the steam app to \"run in administration\" fixed it."
},
{
"body": "it worked for me very fine thanks alot dude"
},
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}