Moving to a different drive?

[artimrj]

I have a Steam folder on 3 different drives. When I got my new system aI had to basically reinstall everything. Over 200 games on Steam at the moment. I have 5 TB of HDD. When one drive was getting to 75% full, I started installing on another drive, then on a 3rd. Steam takes care of everything. Just in case anyone wanted to know. My SSD is only 128 gig, Win 10 and my major apps use that so I did not install the games there.

[Griphos]

Not only that but the backup and restore will be using your slow internet to accomplish all that. Why don't you go back to what Eric and I said worked just fine? It's simple and tried and works.

Because I'm wanting just to move the one game, not the entire Steam folder on that drive. I actually have three Steam folders on three drives (I have way too many games) and want to keep the other (much smaller) games in my C:\ Steam folder on C:\.

[artimrj]

Uninstall it and reinstall it to the new drive then.

[buzz456]

Not only that but the backup and restore will be using your slow internet to accomplish all that. Why don't you go back to what Eric and I said worked just fine? It's simple and tried and works.

Because I'm wanting just to move the one game, not the entire Steam folder on that drive. I actually have three Steam folders on three drives (I have way too many games) and want to keep the other (much smaller) games in my C:\ Steam folder on C:\.

Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I just moved the TS2016 to the new drive and then ran the steam exe and it found it there.

[Chacal]

This. More precisely, here are the detailed steps.
This is what I did and it took a few minutes, no hassle.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=2965732

[Griphos]

Ah, but I thought you only had one game in Steam (from what you said). Erik's suggestion involves moving all of the Steam folder and starting Steam.exe to repair.

I don't know if anyone has tried the uninstall/reinstall after moving the folder. That was just an idea, and I sort of don't want to experiment if it means I bork things and have to re-download 90gb of Railworks again.

Ah...I see Chacal has chimed in with a version of what I had in mind while I was typing this. I think this might mean it will verify the cache and I'll need to reinstall Krellnut, etc, but that is much better than the whole download. I'll try that first.

[ssbobz]

This. More precisely, here are the detailed steps.
This is what I did and it took a few minutes, no hassle.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=2965732

That seems to have some additional useful features not available from Steam Mover since it's handled by Steam itself.

However, if someone has a large amount of changes that would be rewritten by Steam's file verification Steam Mover could still be a useful alternative since it moves the existing files and doesn't involve verification.

[buzz456]

How many forum members.............

[Griphos]

Jeeez, you guys are the crankiest guys I've ever known on any forum, Buzz. I created a thread ASKING for help from as many people as possible about the best of what I'm certain are a number of ways to get this done. I've had good input, and I'm in the process of trying one of them now. I'm a satisfied forum member. Sorry that my query and people's helpfulness has caused you so much disgruntlement.

[buzz456]

Who said I was disgruntled? I was having a moment of humor. Sorry you missed it.

[Ericmopar]

Well..
You could put your Railworks folder onto the other drive, then open Steam and use the option to add a non Steam game or program to the start menu in the Steam window.
It doesn't actually need to be a non Steam game to do that. That's how I run my Railworks backups if I want to check something out.

That kills me, that some of you have so many games in Steam, that they are spread over multiple drives.

Did I read Buzz right, when he said Steam will find an individual game anyways, even on a different drive?

[Griphos]

I'm about 85% on the copy over. Keep your fingers crossed.

I have too many games. I bought a bunch of them for a research job I was doing and never even played them.

What kills me is how much space two of my most played games take up. Almost 100 gb for TS2016, and almost 200 gb for FSX!!!

[ssbobz]

I've been upgrading my PC since the weekend, part of that job is moving some of my games to a new raid volume but because of how things worked out and more than one snag I was looking at having to reinstall TS2016 among several other non-Steam games. Thanks to the many suggestions in this thread I see there should be a better way.

[Ericmopar]

I'm about 85% on the copy over. Keep your fingers crossed.

I have too many games. I bought a bunch of them for a research job I was doing and never even played them.

What kills me is how much space two of my most played games take up. Almost 100 gb for TS2016, and almost 200 gb for FSX!!!

That's true, but in exchange we get to drive and fly places in real time and distances.

[Griphos]

True dat. And FSX (now P3D) does give me the WHOLE world.

I made the move, and Steam is busy now "discovering" existing files, so it looks like it's working.

EDIT: Hmmmm....not so good. Steam decided there was 25 gb of stuff it needs to download to "install" in the new folder location. I guess I'll let it do that, although that will take several days. I doubt I can play it otherwise.

Wish I'd used Steammover.