Steam's latest client updates allows users to move games to different storage drives

[WYP]

Steam's latest client updates allows users to move games to different storage drives or locations, finally allowing PC gamers to move game their files with ease.



Read more on Steam's new "move folder option".

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Took them a while if you ask me.. but yeah nice to have ^_^

 

[RobM]

I have had my install and games on separate drive for months

 

[NeverBackDown]

I have had my install and games on separate drive for months

This is to move the files to a new drive. It was possible before to download to a new drive, but to move, you had to delete and redownload/install to a new location.

 

[Greenback]

This is to move the files to a new drive. It was possible before to download to a new drive, but to move, you had to delete and redownload/install to a new location.

Nope you could copy the files over to the new drive and then tell steam to delete the old place when installing point to new drive steam would find the files and no downloading

 

[Kilbane]

Nope you could copy the files over to the new drive and then tell steam to delete the old place when installing point to new drive steam would find the files and no downloading

Didn't work with all games though, GTA V for example, because it downloads a highly compressed version, it looks for those installation files rather than the game files themselves.

This is a great addition to steam!

 

[Greenback]

Didn't work with all games though, GTA V for example, because it downloads a highly compressed version, it looks for those installation files rather than the game files themselves.

This is a great addition to steam!

I've never had any game fail, but this is a nice simpler way of doing it, more straight forward for those not PC savvy

 

[watson44]

This is to move the files to a new drive. It was possible before to download to a new drive, but to move, you had to delete and redownload/install to a new location.

i just moved the game files/ folder, deleted the game from steam and then re-installed, giving the new location, job done without the need to re-download my whole collection

this just make things a tiny bit simpler

 

[Legacy-ZA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6-3l3hCm0

 

[Bagpuss]

???

I'm not seeing this option to move games in my Steam properties games tab, running the latest updated Beta as well.

 

[Greenback]

???

I'm not seeing this option to move games in my Steam properties games tab, running the latest updated Beta as well.

it's in the local files tab of the game

 

[Bagpuss]

it's in the local files tab of the game

It wasn't.

Found out on Hexus that you have to manually create a new folder on the drive you want to copy the games over to first and then add that folder to the list of folders the steam client looks for, otherwise the new tab for copying games won't be there.

Might have been helpful to mention this in this article TBH.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Most of us actually have two steam folders one in our ssd and one in our hdd so that's why..