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im doing this. ill set it up over night and see what happens tomorrow.

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so im running my steam on an external HDD and it has ALWAYS worked fine. it is not noticeably slower than my internal hdd and has no noticeable performance difference so dont say anything like that. I just got the civ 5 humble bundle and i want to install civ 5, but it says there is a steam write error? i deleted appcache and rebooted, deleted everything i could in the downloading file in steam. but the error still exists.... any ides? i just want to play civ 5 :(

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so im running my steam on an external HDD and it has ALWAYS worked fine. it is not noticeably slower than my internal hdd and has no noticeable performance difference so dont say anything like that. I just got the civ 5 humble bundle and i want to install civ 5, but it says there is a steam write error? i deleted appcache and rebooted, deleted everything i could in the downloading file in steam. but the error still exists.... any ides? i just want to play civ 5 :(

I know that the steam client was just updated today.  I'd say the first thing to do is to make sure that you have the latest update installed.  Just quit and restart steam and it should prompt you to install the update.  Then see if you still have the problem.  Forgive me if you have already done this.

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I know that the steam client was just updated today.  I'd say the first thing to do is to make sure that you have the latest update installed.  Just quit and restart steam and it should prompt you to install the update.  Then see if you still have the problem.  Forgive me if you have already done this.

i checked for an update, its up to date

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Can you share the direct error? Is it saying you can't write to the folder because of permissions? If so, you have to make sure nothing is updating/patching via the client for it to work. I just had the same problem last week. I know you said you deleted what's in the downloading folder but there still might be something trying to download or update within the client .

 

If that doesn't work, have you tried  opening the client with Admin rights?

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https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9709-FKCB-4230

im doing this. ill set it up over night and see what happens tomorrow.

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I seriously doubt your drive is in bad health but I guess it is worth checking off the list.  I hope you find a solution for it soon, and that your drive isn't dead/failing. :(

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ya that was the problem. got that sorted out. forgot to post the results lol

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