New Updates caused Steam games to fail starting

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@sundaze

Any suggestions on what I could do?

Ideally, using a native Linux filesystem will be more resilient for your purposes – ext4 would be preferable, considering these games are stored on external disks.

Of course, the presumption is that you might be sharing the games between Windows and Manjaro – thus the choice of ntfs – this may be convenient, at face value, but as a result you will likely be plagued with these kinds of annoyances.

If you really must use ntfs, then you might find some information indirectly useful here, with respect appropriate mounting and permission management for ntfs:

[HowTo] Mount NTFS correctly under Linux

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ Avoid using NTFS on Linux whenever possible. But if you have no choice, you’ll want to get the most out of it – and that’s exactly why I wrote this. The main goal of this guide is to provide well-researched NTFS mount options that strike a balance between convenience and reasonable security – suitable for almost anyone. While the rest of the information can be found in countless other guides, the real value here lies in the options themselves and, unlike most NTFS guides, I…

However, another option is to use a exfat filesystem which, apart from being compatible with Windows, Linux and macOS, is not subject to permission issues.

The downside is that exfat isn’t as robust as ntfs, and any data recovery of damaged files is virtually impossible.

If my presumption is incorrect, and you’re not sharing the games between Windows and Manjaro, then reformat the external disk(s) as ext4 (as mentioned earlier).

Naturally, move the data to another location temporarily, as needed.

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Regards.

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