Steam Flatpak: Cannot add second drive

Aurora
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Hello all,

I am trying to make a second drive visible to Steam so as to be able to install games to it.

I have mounted the drive and made the drive available by adding its mount point to the Steam flatpak via Flatseal. However, when I attempt to add a drive the dialogue closes and nothing appears to happen, checking the path shows that Steam created the steamapps folder but no libraryfolder.vdf file like it usually does.

Adding a non-steam game on this secondary drive appears to work as expected, it is only trying to create a new library folder that fails.

Has anyone else ran into this?

I am running Aurora 43.202511 and any help would be appreciated.

Edit: I had used Bluefin previously and adding the second drive worked as expected there.

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After you added the permission, did you close and open steam again? Needed for the permissions to apply.

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This is a very annoying issue with the flatpak version of steam since a few month : Steam Flatpak can't add a disk, it stays on "Add Drive" · Issue #1405 · flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam · GitHub

Because of it, I only recommand bazzite to people that need to use Steam with mutliple drive.

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Thanks for the reply, this appears to be the issue that is occuring. Will mark this as solved.

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