There is no conversion process for servers, you have to do a clean install, the conversion process only applies to clients.
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Brady Osborne <m...@bradyosborne.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Is it normal for SteamCMD to delete files during the conversion process
> from HLDSUpdateTool? I kept seeing files vanish, so I put SteamCMD on the
> left side of my screen with my 'cfg' folder on the right, and after a few
> seconds of running SteamCMD on a directory that was previously updated by
> HLDSUpdateTool, the cfg files disappeared as if they were deleted.
>
> According to this
> article<https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7388-QPFN-2491>it
> says files will only be moved, not deleted, but I have not found this to
> be true. I have had several other users ask me about this issue, too. I
> did some research with Process Monitor and found that SteamCMD does in fact
> overwrite the cfg files in addition to several others.
>
> Note the highlighted line here (SetRenameInformationFile):
> http://tinypic.com/r/9zn38m/5
>
> So in the article's question "My XYZ file got deleted. Where did it go?
> The conversion process does not delete any user files." - this is
> technically true, however, the conversion process* *does *overwrite* files.
> User files outside of a specific set are not modified, like the 'addons'
> folder or 'server.cfg'.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thank you,
>
> *Brady Osborne*
> m...@bradyosborne.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:50 PM, AeroliteGaming.com <
> ad...@aerolitegaming.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much for that, it worked.
>>
>> On 03/06/2013 23:46, Nicholas Hastings wrote:
>>
>> If you have the Steam client installed on your server, launch it and
>> check for updates.
>>
>> That error can happen when they update the shipped steam_api (they did)
>> and you have an older steamclient installed on the machine.
>>
>> --
>> Nicholas Hastings
>> AlliedMods.net <http://www.alliedmods.net>
>>
>>
>>
>> AeroliteGaming.com <ad...@aerolitegaming.co.uk>
>> Monday, June 03, 2013 6:43 PM
>> Having troubles after this update:
>>
>> ************************************************** *********
>> ************************************************** *********
>> * Unable to load Steam support library. *
>> * Unable to load Steam support library. *
>> * This server will operate in LAN mode only. *
>> * This server will operate in LAN mode only. *
>> ************************************************** *********
>> ************************************************** *********
>>
>> Tried validating and still no luck.
>>
>>
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