Skip corrupted .acf files in Steam library #4200
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Problem
After the v1.35.0 release, several users reported an exception at launch:
Cause
@Halbann reports:
Apparently Steam sometimes corrupts one of the important files in its database and then just leaves it there (in addition to leaving a bunch of empty folders after it disables a DLC, see #4002). (Windows may be partly responsible, since this all-null file strongly is strongly reminiscent of #4078, which our code would never cause if the OS ran it as written.) Once this happens,
KeyValueValue.KVSerializer.Deserialize
throws an exception when asked to read such a file.Changes
Now if
Deserialize
throws an exception, we log a warning and continue with the other.acf
files.We will continue to investigate this as other affected users report back, in case they are experiencing the same issue with different causes, but for now this is one definite problem we can address.
Fixes #4197.