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Pulling games from two family shared steam accounts


caseyls

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Hi! Before I make a feature request I want to make sure there isn't already a way to accomplish this. My partner and I each have our own steam accounts, and we usually just leave one account signed in with family library share enabled on our shared living room PC (we mostly play different games so don't have any issued with overlapping saves). 

In launchbox, when I link a steam account, and import a newly installed game, it only gives me a list of games from one account. Meaning if I install a game from my partner's account, but it's my account that is linked to launchbox, I have to switch the linked account to the other api key to get that game to import. Not the end of the world, but a bit of a hassle. 

Is there any way to have Launchbox look at the installed games of two separate family library shared accounts simultaneously?

Thanks!

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Steam doesn't send information via their API regarding what games you have access to outside of your account. There MAY be a way to read registry to see if there are games installed that AREN'T tied to your account but I'd have to look. At this time there is no way in-app to do this though so I would go ahead and submit a feature request so I don't forget about checking for you. Right now I'm doing my best to get 12.10 finished up and am sure by the time I'm done with that version it'll have slipped my mind without the reminder.

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