2 Invalid Satisfactory installs found
I downloaded the AppImage from the site while I was waiting for
satisfactory-mod-manager to install from the AUR and it worked fine. Except then I opened up the AUR version and it said "2 Invalid Satisfactory installs found". I had installed Satisfactory from steam, the dedicated server from steam, and just got finished installing the dedicated server from the AUR because I was going to play with some friends, but since then I've uninstalled both servers and reinstalled the steam game (and opened it and played), and it still says 2 invalid installs. When the game was uninstalled, SSM opened and had an "Unknown" install location (instead of "Steam"), but no mods matched the version, and I can't tell where it thinks it was installed.Solution:Jump to solution
Try restarting steam, see if it still shows the second library in its settings
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Key Details for SMMDebug-2025-11-10-13-51-40.zip triggered by @JadedDraconevixfrom the debug logs it seems REALLY invested in specifically my lego game folders :P
It's even looking in a lego game in a drive i don't even have anymore, and that's also considering I don't have Epic either
here's what it looks like with satisfactory uninstalled
It uses the epic and steam manifests to find where you have the game installed, so I'm guessing there are files left behind from when you uninstalled them
>cli
GitHub
GitHub - satisfactorymodding/ficsit-cli: A CLI tool for managing mo...
A CLI tool for managing mods for the game Satisfactory - satisfactorymodding/ficsit-cli
You might find this useful
ooh!
@Mircea (Area Actions) any ideas on how to resolve this case?
Unfortunately there isn't much logging in the steam install finding, I really thought it would be the most stable to deal with, but it actually turned out to be the one with the weirdest edge cases
I do see in the log that it is finding some install though
{"time":"2025-11-10T08:51:12.930223448-05:00","level":"INFO","msg":"using local disk","path":"/run/media/jwright159/Baka/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Satisfactory"}yeah that's my good install
But it's not in the actual installs list... so I guess that where the Unknown comes from?
yeah i think it fails to load it when it's uninstalled and falls back to "Unknown"
(i've been poking around the github repo)
honestly at this point i could figure out how to build it and spam print statements everywhere
oh hey, the cli works at least
Is, by any chance, the steamapps folder capitalized (i.e.
SteamApps)?neither in my main install nor my external drive (where satisfactory is located)
In
~/.steam/steam/steamapps/libraryfolders.vdf, is your second library listed there, and then in that library folder (in steamapps) is there a appmanifest_526870.acf?huh. my second library isn't in libraryfolders.vdf
the manifest isn't in that folder, no
But the game shows up in steam and steam can launch it?
Yeah
That's weird
Solution
Try restarting steam, see if it still shows the second library in its settings
it's gone
what
how???
No idea
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ok
I think you're at least the third to which this happens
what???????
it's not like SMM modifies any steam files, right??
It doesn't, no
ok! cursed!
Might have to do with the drive being external, some weird situation where it's not mounted when steam last saved the libraries file, but that still doesn't really explain how steam finds the library and then saves the file without it
Weirdly enough, my google search for this only brought up linux users having this issue. At least it's (potentially) tracked https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/8552. I might dig up the other cases I've seen on this discord to check if they were on linux too