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Moving Steam Folders Between HDDs?

Stg-Flame

Stg-Flame

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Until today, I have had no problem with leaving Steam on my old HDD as it was my old PC's HDD and when I installed Steam on this PC, it automatically found my old Steam files any redirected all downloads to that directory. Anyways, I am out of space and I need to move the entire Steam folder to my new HDD and I am unsure how to go about doing this. I have heard you can just copy/paste the entire folder but doing so I must redownload everything. This is something I would like to avoid if at all possible.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
Just copy/paste the whole folder to wherever you need it to go. Then download/reinstall Steam. When it asks you for an install directory, point it to wherever you moved it too.
 
Just copy/paste. Steam is a self contained app so there is no need to reinstall.

Personally I think every program should be self contained, cuz I like to format a lot, and its really annoying to have to reinstall things that put like 40032 things in the registry.
 
Zensal said:
Just copy/paste the whole folder to wherever you need it to go. Then download/reinstall Steam. When it asks you for an install directory, point it to wherever you moved it too.
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That's exactly what I've done several times and it works great.
 
Steams self-containment is how all programs/apps should work. I can't stand nowadays standalone apps and when you're installing a new system every other app puts their config/ini files in like 5 different godam folders.
 
Ben90 said:
Just copy/paste. Steam is a self contained app so there is no need to reinstall.

Personally I think every program should be self contained, cuz I like to format a lot, and its really annoying to have to reinstall things that put like 40032 things in the registry.
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IIRC Steam is not a self contained app. It just fixes itself if it cannot find the registry entries. AFAIK you could delete every file but the steam.exe file itself and it would completely reinstall itself. Put UAC on and completely uninstall/reinstall it. If it were truly self contained, it would not need UAC access.
 
Well, I transferred the folder over night, all 87GBs. Most of my games are showing as uninstalled so I must go back and reinstall them now again unless there is a way around this.
 
0roo0roo said:
btw steam has a backup game files feature...
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This. Run the Steam now and use "backup" feature. It will backup your game files. Then just run the backup exe's on new drive. It asks where to install Steam, point it to new drives, and viola - saved 87 GB of downloads.
 
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