Problem with MW2 restoring backup

Mak3R · 1 Sep 2010 at 19:19

Hi guys, I reformatted yesterday but before I did so I copied my entire COD folder from my steamapps. I was under the impression I could just copy it back in (as I've done with other games) and it would work.

Am I missing something? I copied the folder to here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

Alas no luck when I restart steam, the game is just greyed out in my library. Any ideas?

Mak3R · 1 Sep 2010 at 19:47

Same thing happens for Civ4. Anyone any ideas?

sniffy · 1 Sep 2010 at 20:06

No idea but in future use the back-up feature provided by steam itself.

Meeeellar · 1 Sep 2010 at 20:12

Mak3R said:
Hi guys, I reformatted yesterday but before I did so I copied my entire COD folder from my steamapps. I was under the impression I could just copy it back in (as I've done with other games) and it would work.

Am I missing something? I copied the folder to here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

Alas no luck when I restart steam, the game is just greyed out in my library. Any ideas?

Have you actaully started the install and download for it? Once that's started and you give it a min so steam can create the necessary files you should be able to just stop the download and then copy and paste the files in.

Also, as sniffy said. In future you should use the back-up feature.

Mak3R · 1 Sep 2010 at 20:20

I have used this method a few times, as do many others. The steam backup deature takes too long

Meeeellar · 1 Sep 2010 at 20:21

Tried what I suggested?

Mak3R · 1 Sep 2010 at 21:09

Yep just did, seemed to do the trick for MW2. Civ4 was nearly downloaded again so I just let it carry on. Thanks a lot

Tefal · 1 Sep 2010 at 21:12

sniffy said:
No idea but in future use the back-up feature provided by steam itself.

no point, takes ages and often fails.

Mak3R said:
Yep just did, seemed to do the trick for MW2. Civ4 was nearly downloaded again so I just let it carry on. Thanks a lot

Meeeellar · 1 Sep 2010 at 22:58

Tefal said:
no point, takes ages and often fails.

God knows how many times i've used it and never really had any problems. The only thing was back when the back-up system wouldn't include a file to restore the files. However you could create one yourself... so not really a problem.

Mak3R · 2 Sep 2010 at 08:53

Last time I used the steam backup facility it loaded my entire CPU to 100% and ground me to a halt and took forever to complete. Never trused it since then...