Game uninstalled itself

Game Version:

DE, Steam platform, build not available but it is up to date

Issue:

Double clicking game icon launches installer. navigating to the game on steam shows “install” button where “play” would normally be.

I know that the game files are still present because I had 4Gig free HDD space yesterday and I have the same today. I do not know where they are though. I looked in C:\Users\Neil\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\ but all I see is about 70mb of log files.

I attempted to uninstall DE through Windows add/remove programs. The icon was present and I selected uninstall. Steam opened, no operation was performed however, and the icon is no longer in the Windows add/remove programs list. I still have 4Gig free HDD space.

I cannot proceed with installation because I don’t have enough free space!

Steps to reproduce are unknown.

Please help me to either:

  • Fix the problem
  • Purge all the old data from my HDD so that I can do a fresh install.

Thanks!

Do uninstall through Steam.