Well, everything was working fine and I moved across a few bigger programs from A to B, and checked and they all launched perfectly.
I load up my pc later on, and launching anything that I moved across comes with the prompt to install said program.
I just assume its not mounted, so I make sure it is. I check the space used on it, and sure enough its being occupied by what i put on it. But when I cd into where i mounted it, its just a lost+found file.
I can still make directories on the disk and all that.
Does anyone know what happened and how i could fix this?
lost+found usually isn’t a file but a directory, and is commonly populated when the system has encountered and repaired a very bad filesystem error. The directory will then contain the recovered files.
Also, please note that GNU/Linux is a UNIX-style system and that you cannot simply move programs around in the filesystem layer like in Microsoft Windows. Please look at the information at the link below.
Thank you for your answer.
I didnt move them around, I used the built-in tool on the native linux client of steam to correctly change some install paths, and as I said, it was working. And yes, lost+found is a directory but its very empty- just ... are there.
There is also the problem that I unzipped a totally unrelated file onto this drive also, 100% separate from anything else, and that too has gone.
Do you have any further ideas as to what it could be? I dont mind wiping the disk and making a new steam library and installing straight to it and also re-download and move across some larger video files and large programs, but I wouldnt it to happen again.
Okay doke. As ever, any insight you can bring to me on this will be greatly appreciated.
I cant explain what is happening cos I dont understand it, but here is what it looks like to me:
in /mnt/media I have some full folders such as steam and unreal and videos. they are all fine.
I had downloaded these all to another drive, and that drive was mounted to /mnt/media as I done that. But when I mount said drive, these files dissapear and in place is that lost+found one.
But, I am sure I downloaded them to that other drive, for a good 10% was freed when i moved them. And my otherdrive was empty, and now is populated.
what is annoying is that when i first did it, there were no issues; i would be able to open any video or game from their .desktop files, though the games launcher, or though the terminal no issues. Now, I MUST do sh /path/to/game/.sh to open it.
When this game opens and runs (which is does) steam actually comes up with a popup for installing the game. And when the game runs, its disconnected from steam.