Moving Nexus Mod Manager and Steam from a HDD to SSD - Advice Needed Please.

[TheSwede]

Bought a new SSD and moving my games to it, done GOG and Witcher 3 so far, now gonna do NMM and Steam but need advice first.

A bit late now but you don't need to re-download Steam itself. Just copy the entire folder and then run the Steam app from within it after you've reinstalled Windows. It will download and set up all the bits and bobs it needs. You might want to do a Take Ownership on the folder before you do this to make sure file permissions are okay but you can often get away without it.

The above was posted in another thread and in regards to Steam, would that work just moving it from HDD E) to a SSD I) drive without problem and redownloading games ?? And if it is, how do you Take Ownership over the folder ?? Not sure if I am looking in the right place, is it: Steam Properties - Security Tab - Advanced Security Settings for Steam ? If it is, owner there is set for Administrators, would that be right ??

Also would like to, if possible, move Nexus Mod Manager to the SSD, can that be done when you already have games installed through NMM ?? If it can be done, anything I should pay special attention to, since would prefer not have to download the Fallout 4 mods again.

Thank you for taking time reading this and I appreciate any and all suggestions as to the above.

 

[koolpc]

Subscribed as would like to know too about the Steam bit

 

[tommybhoy]

It's simple.

Safest way, I would:

Copy the whole Steam dir to it's new destination.

Once completed, go into Steam and uninstall all games/apps-right click installed game/app in your library and select 'Delete Local Content'.

When done, exit Steam.

Rename(don't delete just in case) the original Steam folder.

Go into your new Steam dir and run Steam.

Steam will download some files, it usually updates and ask you to restart.

Install the games/apps again that you were using, they will re-install again after it verifies the files.

Remember to delete original Steam folder if you don't need it.


OR

If you have too many games and not enough SSD, use something like 'Steam Spreader'(which is part of Game Save Manager) and move titles on a game by game basis instead of the whole lot.

It is very simple to use, just pick the title and point to where you want it to go.

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/

 

[davewhite04]

Just copy the Steam directory to the SSD and add the folder to your freshly installed copy of Steam.

 

[tommybhoy]

@TheSwede,

Suppose you could try Steam Spreader, it should be able to move NMM ok, but it may be wiser to re-install your mods.

I'm no expert on how NMM works, but in the past I have re-installed OS and used an existing NMM instalation from previous install and everything was still intact.

Or wait a bit longer and see if anyone else better clued up on NMM can answer you better.

 

[TheSwede]

Thanks for your suggestions guys, much appreciated !

A friend of mine asked why I didn't just checked Steam before asking so I did, was more or less similar to what you adviced me on though.

Moving a Steam Installation and Games

Although, no need to uninstall any games after moving it all. Just start the game, Steam does a download/verification of the content and then starts the game.

Once I done that, I thought since I don't have to many mods for Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 (the only one that I am using Nexus Mod Manager for) I just thought I take a chance and copy the Nexus folder over to the SSD. Once there, when I first started NMM it did the Rescan Installed Games, found most of those I have on the new location, but for FO4 it found the copied folder first so just had to click on the red X until the right path showed then confirm the location and all worked fine starting it up. All mods still showing and working once starting up the game.

I did however copy all the INI files for FO4, FO3 and Skyrim to another HDD, just incase the verification would change them to fresh ones, only started and played FO4 so far but couldn't see any changed in game, played for a couple hours last evening and it all worked fine for me.

Once again, thanks for your suggestions, greatly appreciated! Hopefully someone else might find this useful if they thinking about doing something similar.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

If you're moving NMM installs don't forget to copy over the NMM mods folder and the NMM install logs folder or it'll "forget" which mods you've installed (the mods will still exist in your folders but NMM won't be able to uninstall them)

 

[TheSwede]

If you're moving NMM installs don't forget to copy over the NMM mods folder and the NMM install logs folder or it'll "forget" which mods you've installed (the mods will still exist in your folders but NMM won't be able to uninstall them)

Thanks, just made sure they were at the right location now. Appreciate the advice incase I be uninstalling any of them I have.