My 35-day-long nightmare is over : Valve has quietly restored a critical piece of its screenshot management functionality, and with it a critical piece of my sanity. Last month when I went to find screenshots of some game or another in Steam I realized that Valve had ditched the old button that took you directly to that game's screenshot folder on the disk, instead replacing it with a "Share" button that let you save images one at a time to a location of your choice. This did not spark joy.
Why would I resave a file that I know already exists in a folder on my computer? Why was that folder being hidden from me? What happened to the pure, beautiful, functional simplicity of "Show on Disk?" Well, it looks like beauty can still exist in the world. Steam's latest update has returned the "Show on Disk" option when you right-click any screenshot in your library, leaping straight to that folder in File Explorer. Excelsior! The option coming back surprised me so much I was a little worried I'd somehow just forgotten to right-click for the last month and it had really been there all along.
But PC Gamer's Morgan Park confirmed that his build of Steam—which he hadn't yet updated to the latest beta client—did not show that option when he right-clicked a screenshot. After a quick update, the three most beautiful words in the English language appeared before his eyes. Steam's beta client patch notes seem to indicate the context menu entry returned nine days ago , though Morgan restarte.