Family sharing account -> Corrupt mods

One more thing to add: this started happening around 2 weeks ago when our computer got upgraded with an SSD on which we install our software and games on, including Steam and the game library. On the old HDD we had no such problem.

And yes, we have tried force loading the mods list.

Hello, are both Steam users playing on the same Windows login, or on two different Windows logins? Is it possible that the first user is still logged in to their Steam account with the game running?

Hello Peter. We play on the same Windows 10 user, same steam client, we just log out of steam and change accounts when we want to play the game.

Pretty sure there is just one steam client instance running every time, Steam doesn't let a user logout if a certain game is running.

Also, I am not sure if it might be steam related either, because if we unsubscribe completely from all the mods, those still appear corrupted in the Mod menu, even after doing the option to Clean mods cache or something like that (the button left of the update mods one).

What I believe is happening is that the mod directory is getting emptied (since you aren't subscribed to your brother's mods), but something on your operating system is causing the directory to fail to delete. When you see these corrupted mods, try closing the game and any other other processes such as Steam (you might want to check the task manager and see what's running), and then try to delete the workshop-<number> directories from your C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Don't Starve Together\mods directory.

I suspect it also could be an anti-virus program (or a virus itself) interrupting you from being able to delete the workshop directories.

We ended up solving the problem by installing Steam on 2 different partitions, and using 2 different steam game libraries locations.

Changed Status to Closed

I have a similar problem.  This is unique to one of my PCs only.  All of my machines have SSD drives, 850 EVOs.  I was about to follow the suggestions above.  However, I can reproduce this with any account in the family on this very machine.  All that I have to is shutdown the machine (properly) and start up again.  Once I try to get on the same server that we are running, I get the same problem.   To fix it, I have to go through the laborious process above.   

Issue is still here, can reproduce it as well. My ssd is a Kingston UV400 120GB.

Changed Status to Known Issue

Hi guys, we've had some success with users following this workaround. Please try it out and let us know if it helps or not.

http://support.kleientertainment.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2799221