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👑[Enhancement] Revert to or Enable old family/liberary share
Hi, I've been a multi-account user for a long time, back when Steam had some serious regional price discrimination. Recently, I accidentally created a NEW steam family, it fxxked up all my sharing. Now I have to login to different account to play games. The new family share doesn't function in my case, as my other accounts are in a different region. Steam says the new one completely replace the old one, but it seems to me they exist at the same time, I just need a way to toggle it back to the older version. Here's my discovery.
09/26/2024
I have main account A, alt account B, C.
I enabled NEW family sharing on A, lost access to lib B, C.
I thought I could just use the new family function, hence enabled new sharing on B.
Steam tells me since they are in a different region, B cannot join A's family.
I deleted A's family, re-apply for B's lib, here's what I got.
I then re-apply for C's lib, notice C didn't have new family function enabled. It succeed.
A and B's family page looks like this
While C's looks like this
It seems to me that they've just disabled a layout, is there a way to enable this layout?
win+r：steam://open/console
steam console: device_authorize_local [description]
For now, you can manually use the old version family sharing in this way, but the prerequisite is that it cannot be used simultaneously with the new family sharing
win+r：steam://open/consolesteam console: device_authorize_local [description]For now, you can manually use the old version family sharing in this way, but the prerequisite is that it cannot be used simultaneously with the new family sharing
Should I be doing device_authorize_local on account B, [description] is account name A?
@kotovasia5120 Does it work for you, cuz it surely doesn't work for me
I reinstalled steam and my old menu stopped showing. I have not activated a new family.After the command was updated, the old menu appeared and I was able to use other libraries. This day greenluma was working, but the next day it stopped. But access to other libraries works. Writes that it will be disabled in 2025.
I just did device_authorize_local [account public name] and it seems to have worked
@Kohega Would you post a screenshot or sort?
I did device_authorize_local [account public name] on my alt acc, where name is my main, I did not work
@F00lsGold
I just installed Steam, added my 2nd account, launch
steam steam://open/console and ran device_authorize_local [Kohega] in my case
@Kohega Would you post a screenshot or sort?
I did
device_authorize_local [account public name]on my alt acc, where name is my main, I did not work
It seems that you need to write the computer name obtained using device_authorize_status there. Descripcion item.
@kotovasia5120 so i have to go on my account B where i want the account to be authorised and enter the account A name(the computer name) and then will i be able to get the account A library shared with account B
No, I did it from the alt acc that I wanted to share to my main account
Le sam. 2 nov. 2024 à 22:42, Yoda381 @.***> a écrit :
@kotovasia5120 https://github.com/kotovasia5120 so i have to go on my account B where i want the account to be authorised and enter the account A name(the computer name) and then will i be able to get the account A library shared with account B
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@Kohega so u went to alt account nd enabled sharing there nd shared ur alt account games to ur main account?
