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To be fair, what you tried to do is a pretty strange use case.
Verify the game data, it will re-download the game files. You can't really blame steam when you are changing files out side steams knowledge.
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It might have tried, failed to return a deleted confirmation, and didn't update the internal list of installed files, or something.
Pretty interesting
ok thanks 🙏
Tell steam to verify the files. That should make it realize they're missing.
I’ll never understand people who do nonsense like this.