Plugin unable to connect after Godot version change

[RPicster]

• OS: Windows 10

Describe the issue
When changing Godot versions (e.g. 3.4.4 > 3.5 or 3.4.3 > 3.4.4) the plugin seems to stop working.
I get the error message that the plugin is unable to connect to Steam.

Fix
What helped now for a second time was completely removing the plugin and deleting the directoy in addons - then doing a clean install.

[samsface]

I think I know the issue.

When we run the game from Godot (so not launched from Steam), steam knows the appid by looking at the exe and seeing if there is a file named "steam_appid.txt" in the same directory as the exe.

The Steam section of the project settings actually creates this file during the import of the sdk dlls. So this file gets written into the install location of Godot. So is it possible that the new install is removing that file or maybe you're installing into a new directory with the version suffixed (e.g. C:/program files/godotv3.5 -> C:/program files/godotv3.6)

[RPicster]

What you described was exactly the problem - I tested it again when changing version.
The question now is only how to communicate this "problem" effectively?

[RPicster]

Ok, getting back here to document how I handle version changes now.
Like you said, the file is in the directory of the Godot version, so if I use a new version, the first thing I do is to copy over the steam_appid.txt file and everything works 😵

[samsface]

Another person has hit this issue. Reopening and will close again once I've added an error/test message that the file is missing.

[samsface]

Added a check that gives a better error message when that file is missing.