Steam - How to change download directory? :o

belial8321 · 26 Apr 2011 at 21:31

as title suggests, im probably staring straight at it :O

Scon · 26 Apr 2011 at 21:32

I don't think you can change it without moving your whole library.

belial8321 · 26 Apr 2011 at 21:42

argh stupid dumb steam

Scon · 26 Apr 2011 at 21:44

if you want to move your whole library you just move the Steam.exe and steam apps folder then just start the exe, it'll do the rest.

belial8321 · 26 Apr 2011 at 21:48

could i not just move the entire steam folder?

Tomtom3989 · 26 Apr 2011 at 22:05

if your running out of space just use mklink to move some games on to another hard drive
its so simple

orderoftheflame · 26 Apr 2011 at 22:13

See the Steam FAQ.

You could junction the SteamApps folder or just move the entire Steam directory.

belial8321 · 26 Apr 2011 at 22:16

kk thanks guys

Mak3R · 26 Apr 2011 at 22:40

I was wondering this today as my SSD was full. Came across this nifty tool to move steam games (doesn't seem to work with most valve games) to another drive. Worked well with Portal 2 and FC2 tho.

http://stefanjones.ca/steam/

Shamikebab · 26 Apr 2011 at 22:47

It baffles me that Steam doesn't have a feature for this yet, seems so obvious.

Mr Krugga · 26 Apr 2011 at 22:48

GameSave Manager

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belial8321 · 27 Apr 2011 at 01:07

Thanks guys

nomelette · 29 Apr 2011 at 00:52

burrell said:
if you want to move your whole library you just move the Steam.exe and steam apps folder then just start the exe, it'll do the rest.

You'll need the userdata folder too - that's were some of your saves are.
The Steam FAQ here is outdated. Use this

Rezident · 29 Apr 2011 at 09:00

Mak3R said:
I was wondering this today as my SSD was full. Came across this nifty tool to move steam games (doesn't seem to work with most valve games) to another drive. Worked well with Portal 2 and FC2 tho.

http://stefanjones.ca/steam/

That what I use too> Steam Tool is brilliant, moved 70GB of games I don't really play too much (or don't really need an SSD anyway) onto my old but trusty raptor and still have 50GB of precious SSD space left after Portal 2.

Evilsod · 29 Apr 2011 at 09:10

Isn't installing Steam directly onto an SSD just making things more difficult than its worth? Surely what you want to be doing is moving select games onto it not having to move the majority of games off it?

Trox · 29 Apr 2011 at 10:07

You can also set up a symbolic link for the steam games you want on your SSD.

Check out an app called Folder2Junction, its what I use.

boosfuk · 29 Apr 2011 at 10:34

Evilsod said:
Isn't installing Steam directly onto an SSD just making things more difficult than its worth? Surely what you want to be doing is moving select games onto it not having to move the majority of games off it?

It has always intrigued me on which way round to do it. Ideally you would install Steam to a large mechanical drive and move only select qames to the SSD for speed. I don't know how junctions work under the covers but do you get any unnecessary latency doing it this way round. I.E. does the system have to look up the junction point on the mechanical drive to then load from the SSD? (and thereby negating the fast access times on the SSD). I'm guessing that directory/file links might be cached in memory somehow but does anybody know for certain?