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Moving steam games to secondary drive, HOW?

Can anyone walk me through on how to instal steam games on my second drive? I have set my 120gb SSD drive as primary with OS on it and installed steam on the ssd but want to install the games on my 1tb samsung machanical. Thanks
 
When i moved it, I copied the whole steam folder and ran the steam.exe.

It then repaired itself to my new drive. Not sure if its the best way to do it, but it worked for me.
 
SteamMover is excellent. Does exactly what you want, quickly and easily.

Tbh though it would make more sense to install Steam on the mechanical then use Steammover to move any games you want to the SSD.
 
there are some good guides out there. I moved my installation and all games to another drive the other day. Type move steam installation into google, it's the top link I think. At work so can't get to it, otherwise would link it for you.

Basically went along the lines of move steam apps folder to new drive, delete everything bar steam.exe in current steam location, move steam folder to new drive and run steam.exe, move steam apps folder back in. Open steam, when you go to install a game that you have moved in it will realise all the files are there and not have to download anything.

Apologies misread the OP, thought you want to move the whole thing. Yeah, steammover works well as people have said.
 
Oh, hold on, I have just done a format on both my drives and fresh os install so would it be better to uninstall steam from the ssd then re-install it to the secodary drive as I havn't installed any games yet?
 
Steam let's you do this now. Granted only certain games but still. :)

May have to still opt into beta for it(?).

Tools > Downloads and Cloud > Steam Library Folders
 
spankingtexan said:
Oh, hold on, I have just done a format on both my drives and fresh os install so would it be better to uninstall steam from the ssd then re-install it to the secodary drive as I havn't installed any games yet?
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I'd say so, yes. Otherwise any games you download/install will tend to default to the SSD, which then means you have to move them to the HDD each time. Ideally you want them to reside by default on the HDD and then move them manually to the SSD when you want them.
 
You can move the Steam folder to a different drive, just delete everything in the folder except the steamapps folder and the steam.exe. When you run steam.exe it rebuilds everything for you in the new location. I had an SSD and a 1Tb drive, and keep the steam folder on the 1Tb, because I have like 80games installed.... If I have a game that takes noticeably long to install, I just use steammover to move it to the SSD as and when needed. Once Ive finished the game, I'll just send it back to the 1Tb drive.
 
edge3uk said:
You can move the Steam folder to a different drive, just delete everything in the folder except the steamapps folder and the steam.exe. When you run steam.exe it rebuilds everything for you in the new location.
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This ^^^^

Dont bother with any 3rd party apps etc, just follow Steams own KB article and do the above.

I did it recently, moved all my games when they outgrew my SSD, no problems.
 
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