steam problems

[Sir_Dusk]

I just got my ssd and moved games to it expecting it to work just fine but when I boot the game it said I have to re install it even though I added the steam apps folder from steam its self to the ssd then added the games to it do I have to completely reinstall the games from steam for it to work 

[Skiiwee29]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/618458030662410657/

[Sir_Dusk]

it also shows that I have zero space used in the steam games folder

[Sir_Dusk]

22 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/618458030662410657/

didn't work

[Retorak]

I did that with my ssd a few months ago.

At first I let steam make a folder on my ssd. I was lazy and just let it install a very tiny game. Then I copied the game I wanted on the ssd from the hdd to the steam folder (steamapps). Then you deinstall the game in steam and reinstall it on the ssd. Since the data is already there steam just checks the data very quickly and won't download anything. And you're done.

edit: Steam will make a steam folder itself on the new drive which contains more than just the steamapps folder. Just copying the steamapps folder won't do.

[Sir_Dusk]

On 3/26/2019 at 9:01 AM, Retorak said:

I did that with my ssd a few months ago.

At first I let steam make a folder on my ssd. I was lazy and just let it install a very tiny game. Then I copied the game I wanted on the ssd from the hdd to the steam folder (steamapps). Then you deinstall the game in steam and reinstall it on the ssd. Since the data is already there steam just checks the data very quickly and won't download anything. And you're done.

edit: Steam will make a steam folder itself on the new drive which contains more than just the steamapps folder. Just copying the steamapps folder won't do.

thanks for the help I figured it out it took 24hrs to get working I had to reinstall the games I moved so like 185gb of games but im happy I didn't have to reinstall ark at 208gb