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I have a 44 GB Steam game that I installed to my primary SSD that I would like to move to a mechanical drive to free up space, and I'd prefer to not have to worry about re-downloading the game. I know how to create junctions, but I'd really prefer to move the game and avoid that step just for the sake of making my directories easier to manage. Also there are other games that I will be moving as well, and I'm trying to make the process as smooth as possible. I tried following steps that I found online, but they did not work for me. The steps were laid out for How to Move a PC Game (Without Re-Downloading It). The problem is that it would delete the files I had moved and re-download the whole games. That is a substantial waste of time. I hope that using junctions is not the only workaround in my situation.
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Dec 25, 2016 20:42
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I did this recently with Vermintide, which is like 40 gigs. I just cut + pasted the game's directory to the other drive. I'll move it back if I feel like playing it again. I think it's about as easy as that.
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Dec 25, 2016 20:57
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It'll seem like it's preparing to download, but really it's just rummaging through the files making sure they're all there. From my experience it works fine as long as you tell the thing to download into the exact spot all the already existing files are.
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Dec 25, 2016 21:29
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Sibilant Crisp posted:It'll seem like it's preparing to download, but really it's just rummaging through the files making sure they're all there. From my experience it works fine as long as you tell the thing to download into the exact spot all the already existing files are. Did this with GTA 5, the big thing is to make sure you remove the old steam library path and then put the files in the new path. Once there re download and it will verify files and recreate paths for the game and do a few small downloads. It is a ton simpler then it used to be.
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Dec 25, 2016 23:58
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http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
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Dec 26, 2016 00:24
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G-Philez posted:I have a 44 GB Steam game that I installed to my primary SSD that I would like to move to a mechanical drive to free up space, and I'd prefer to not have to worry about re-downloading the game. I know how to create junctions, but I'd really prefer to move the game and avoid that step just for the sake of making my directories easier to manage. Also there are other games that I will be moving as well, and I'm trying to make the process as smooth as possible. You can create a Steam Backup and then reinstall using that. If it's new enough to be that huge you can most likely use Steam Backup.
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