Directory junction works for steamapps folder....

[FragTek]

Just a heads up if anyone didn't know but creating a directory junction of your steamapps folder to a different hard drive than where Steam is installed does in fact work a treat.

This is nice if you are running a small SSD like me and still want Steam to load with the SSD speed when Windows boots up but don't have the room on the drive to store the gamedata.

Cheers.

 

[Nathlm]

Just a heads up if anyone didn't know but creating a directory junction of your steamapps folder to a different hard drive than where Steam is installed does in fact work a treat.

This is nice if you are running a small SSD like me and still want Steam to load with the SSD speed when Windows boots up but don't have the room on the drive to store the gamedata.

Cheers.

Umm ... How do you do this?

 

[FragTek]

PM'd, hope you got it sorted.

 

[hmmblah]

Learn something new every day....didn't realize sym links in Windows were called directory junctions. I've just always called them sym links.

 

[FragTek]

Yes I refer to them as symlinks as well.

Windows in all of it gayness refers to it differently of course, lol.

 

[Ya93sin]

I did this when I built the PC, very handy for moving all the low req but high HDD space games off my system.

I used this GUI front end for it, just make sure Steam is closed and it does it for ya

 

[FragTek]

Now THAT is a slick application.... I like that it lets you choose certain games, makes it easy.

I have such a small SSD though I didn't have the luxury of choosing only certain games to put on my HDD, they all had to go so a simple one liner @ the prompt did it for me.

This might be able to help Nathlm because he's still having problems.

 

[Nathlm]

Now THAT is a slick application.... I like that it lets you choose certain games, makes it easy.

I have such a small SSD though I didn't have the luxury of choosing only certain games to put on my HDD, they all had to go so a simple one liner @ the prompt did it for me.

This might be able to help Nathlm because he's still having problems.

Program doesn't work - gets errors

 

[FragTek]

Does it open? Not sure what platform they coded this on but make sure you that you have .net framework and C++ redistributable packages, etc installed.

Also I would assume run it as Administrator.

 

[Nathlm]

Does it open? Not sure what platform they coded this on but make sure you that you have .net framework and C++ redistributable packages, etc installed.

Also I would assume run it as Administrator.

Still getting the error

 

[hmmblah]

What's the error you're getting?

 

[Ya93sin]

Close steam before you do it.

I forget the error, but it can't make the symlink while a file inside the directory you are symlinking is being used by Steam.

 

[Nathlm]

Close steam before you do it.

I forget the error, but it can't make the symlink while a file inside the directory you are symlinking is being used by Steam.

Ye it was my error Ididn't run as admin