Before anyone asks, my client isn't attached to steam (since the problem with the beta/live update fiasco), and I last logged in 2 days ago (and yes, I searched :P )
I just tried to log into the game, and I got a version mismatch. it then said "retrying in 6..5... (etc)" until it did, then it started downloading 10gb.
The game size is 10gb. That can't possibly be right.
I then browsed through my client folder and saw that my hogg files, which most should be in the hundreds of meg to over 1gb in size, are all 64kb in size (except for data that's 446kb in size). I don't see anything in the logs that would cause this. My total STO install folder is only 228mb. Something some where has deleted my STO install.
While I know the simple solution is "so just reinstall it, or let it download", however that's not the point. The question is "Why did this happen in the first place?"
Having to download everything again, with a crappy Australian internet connection, it makes me sad
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It was originally a steam download (I still had the backup beta files), then I cut/pasted the install to C:\Games\STO (so it was working independently from steam) - Everything worked perfectly fine.
In my Live folder:
Cache > rdShaderCache 202kb, shaderCache 27mb, texWords 19mb
prepatch > all the same that are under folder piggs, except that data.hogg is 65kb instead of 446 as it is in piggs)
I think I know what you're going to say next and I don't like it.