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Simple bat to move games or directories [Great way to move games from SSD->HDD]

I've used steam mover to move games since I've gotten my SSD, but steam mover doesn't support things like origin, uplay, etc. I've taken the "run commands myself" command steam mover uses and made a .bat for myself [and now you guys].

 

In simple terms: the point of this tiny script is to move games or any other program, and make it seem as if it was never moved. Even though you've moved the game from one drive to another, steam will still function 100% and think that the game was still in it's original location. Updates will still work, and nothing will change.

 

All you have to do is change two variables on top of the script .bat:

Change moveFrom to be the original directory, and moveTo to be the new directory.

Important: Do not add a space after the : [moveFrom:] and do not use quotation marks [ "" ] when entering your directory

 

Example of proper entry:



set moveFrom=c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty Advanced Warfare
set moveTo=B:\steam\games\Call of Duty Advanced Warfare


 

Notes:

1) The root directory you're moving to should exist. In my case that would be b:\steam\games

~ you do not need to create a folder with the name of your game

 

2) Run the .bat as an administrator

 

Script:


 

 

Just copy into notepad and save it as a .bat! Make sure you don't copy the line numbers :P

 

I can't attach bats so you guys have to make your own.

 

Enjoy!

 

edit: had to put the script on pastebin, forums messed up the code

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You can also use this if you got another hard-drive and want to start moving things. It does not have to be HDD -> SDD to can be HDD -> HDD or HDD->Floppy Disk

 

Moving anything Point A to B, and having programs that depend on it still work 100% [steam, origin, uplay, anything]

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I've done something similar, except it allows me to back up all of my documents with 1 click to a 7zip file on my backup drive (and without the comand prompt showing). Why pay for a backup program when simple .bat file and .vbs work just as well?

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I've done something similar, except it allows me to back up all of my documents with 1 click to a 7zip file on my backup drive (and without the comand prompt showing). Why pay for a backup program when simple .bat file and .vbs work just as well?

 

Well that's to store something. This is if you still want to say play a game, but don't want it taking 20gb of your SSD. You run the script, all the game files are moved to a destination of choice, and steam/uplay/origin/whatever still thinks it's in the same place thanks to symbolic links and everybody is happy.

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I've done something similar, except it allows me to back up all of my documents with 1 click to a 7zip file on my backup drive (and without the comand prompt showing). Why pay for a backup program when simple .bat file and .vbs work just as well?

 

Maybe for compression lol

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Maybe for compression lol

 

Backup programs are honestly for non-computer-literal people without external HDDs and spare devices with disk space.

 

You can do everything yourself backup-wise. Not saying dropbox is the shit; but those backup suites are ripoffs in general

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Backup programs are honestly for non-computer-literal people without external HDDs and spare devices with disk space.

 

You can do everything yourself backup-wise. Not saying dropbox is the shit; but those backup suites are ripoffs in general

Which is why I went the .bat/.vbs unattended method. Though it almost kills old computers compressing the files (Celeron M @ 1.6GHz really struggle to hit 1MB/sec)

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Which is why I went the .bat/.vbs unattended method. Though it almost kills old computers compressing the files (Celeron M @ 1.6GHz really struggle to hit 1MB/sec)

 

It's all fun and games until you have to unzip something and it takes forever ^_^

 

I prefer winrar and their "best" compression option

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