My 35-day-long nightmare is over: Valve has quietly restored a essential piece of its screenshot administration performance, and with it a essential piece of my sanity.
Final month after I went to seek out screenshots of some recreation or one other in Steam I spotted that Valve had ditched the previous button that took you on to that recreation’s screenshot folder on the disk, as an alternative changing it with a “Share” button that allow you to save photographs one by one to a location of your selection. This didn’t spark pleasure. Why would I resave a file that I do know already exists in a folder on my pc? Why was that folder being hidden from me? What occurred to the pure, stunning, useful simplicity of “Present on Disk?”
Effectively, it appears like magnificence can nonetheless exist on this planet. Steam’s newest replace has returned the “Present on Disk” choice while you right-click any screenshot in your library, leaping straight to that folder in File Explorer. Excelsior!
The choice coming again shocked me a lot I used to be a little bit frightened I might someway simply forgotten to right-click for the final month and it had actually been there all alongside. However PC Gamer’s Morgan Park confirmed that his construct of Steam—which he hadn’t but up to date to the most recent beta shopper—didn’t present that choice when he right-clicked a screenshot. After a fast replace, the three most stunning phrases within the English language appeared earlier than his eyes.
Steam’s beta shopper patch notes appear to point the context menu entry returned 9 days in the past, although Morgan restarted his PC and Steam simply two days in the past and did not have the characteristic. So should you, too, have been mourning fast entry to your screenshots, be sure to immediate your shopper to get utterly updated.
It is a blessed addition, though we at PC Gamer are a troublesome group to please. After discovering the choice’s return, my colleague Chris Livingston declared it a half measure:
“Simply put the rattling folder button again Valve. I ain’t obtained all day to be right-clicking!”
It is true: the brand new technique does require an additional mouse click on, and it isn’t as intuitive as Valve’s previous folder button. That is probably entire seconds of your day nonetheless going to waste! Personally, I do have all day to be right-clicking, however I nonetheless would not thoughts skipping a step and seeing Present on Disk restored to its former, rightful glory.
