Steam Games Automatic Install

[Drakkorcia]

Hi, when I first installed LB my Steam games were automatically detected and imported, but now if I try importing Windows games it says it can't find any more. I know there is a Steam importer but it won't work because it says I need the mobile authenticator and I don't want to go through all that nonsense. Is there something I'm missing to get subsequent Steam installed games to automatically scan and install? For context, I had a standalone version of the game that WAS installed successfully in LB but I deleted it in favor of the Steam version since LB runs them so well. Is there a cache somewhere or other setting to clear for the game I deleted? I'm thinking maybe it won't detect because there are still remnants of said game even though I deleted the game in LB.

Edited January 20 by Drakkorcia

[C-Beats]

Make sure you didn't turn off the auto-import functionality in Tools > Manage > Storefronts... Without a Steam API key entered we can only import games installed via the Steam Client. We are reading system files/registry to be able to see what's installed.

[Drakkorcia]

It isn't turned off. The storefronts all have a box that says "log in", including Steam. If I do this it gives me the same screen that asks for the API key so this does nothing unfortunately.

[itsmeblake]

LB automatically adds newly installed steam games to my library without an API key. Without thinking about it, I removed a bunch of games assuming that the next time I open LB it would add it again... But it didn't.

I find that this only works for the first time, then never again after that. The API key doesn't help.

What am I missing?

[JoeViking245]

3 hours ago, itsmeblake said:

LB automatically adds newly installed steam games to my library without an API key. Without thinking about it, I removed a bunch of games assuming that the next time I open LB it would add it again... But it didn't.

I find that this only works for the first time, then never again after that. The API key doesn't help.

What am I missing?

If you look under Tools < Manage < Storefronts..., you notice you have the option to import Steam games you have installed on your computer.  It continues with... (paraphrasing) to import all your Steam games, you need to be logged in [to your Steam account].

When you remove a Steam game from your LaunchBox collection, it gets added to a "blacklist" so it doesn't auto reimport the one(s)-you-don't-want to see.

Look in your /LaunchBox/Data/ folder for the file "ImportBlacklist.xml".  (With LaunchBox closed...,) you can carefully edit that file and remove games you don't want blacklisted.  Or just delete the file to "un-blacklist" them all.