Steam ssd converting

[TasTyDK]

Hi guys i'm looking to buy a ssd but i don't know how many gigs to get, i would like to put windows and my steam setup file on it but my steam setup file is 330 gigs and windows is 30 gigs. is there any way to get the steam files down or any way to only put the steam library on it and not the whole setup file

[TheDigitalRealm]

Install Steam on your SSD, then pick a few games you use regularly or that take a long time to load and install those on your SSD too, then install the rest to your HDD.

[TasTyDK]

Install Steam on your SSD, then pick a few games you use regularly or that take a long time to load and install those on your SSD too, then install the rest to your HDD.

how can i install some games and leave the rest

[Jaybird]

you can use a steam game transfer program to move the game files and when you download a game you get an option as to where you want it to be saved. 

[Diablo_PC]

how can i install some games and leave the rest

Before you install the game you should have a option to put it where you want

[TasTyDK]

Before you install the game you should have a option to put it where you want

but i want to move existing files

[Diablo_PC]

but i want to move existing files

  

you can use a steam game transfer program to move the game files and when you download a game you get an option as to where you want it to be saved.

[TasTyDK]

  

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[TasTyDK]

can someone please tell me how to move a existing steam gamefile from one hard drive to a ssd

[Jaybird]

use a steam game transfer program. 

[schwat]

K, so this is super easy to do now that steam supports having multiple libraries. No longer need to use Steam Mover.

 

This is how to do it:

 

1) Create a new steam library where you want your games to go on your SSD. 

 

2) Find your games in your current steam directory that you wish to move and rename them to something, I just added OLD to the file name. This is in case something messes up you have a backup & can try again. You can delete the OLD folders after successfully moving everything. 

 

For this example I'm going to move Bioshock from F: to C:

 

 

Renamed to:

 

 

 

3) After renaming the folders you wish to move, COPY them to your new steam folder. After copying them rename the copies back to their original names. 

 

 

Then renamed to remove "OLD"

 

 

 

4) In steam, select the games you copied & tell steam to delete local content. Nothing will actually be deleted since you renamed the folders, it will just be removed from your installed games list. 

 

 

 

5) In steam click the games you copied & now wish to reinstall. When reinstalling tell steam to install the game to where you copied all the games to. It will discover the folders & "reinstall" without downloading anything. 

 

 

Discovering existing files:

 

 

6) Go back and delete the "OLD" folders from your old Steam library once you verify everything is working. 

 

 

Note: You can skip the whole renaming part if you're confident you're not going to screw something up. It's only for keeping a backup in case something goes wrong. 

[Jaybird]

this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[TasTyDK]

K, so this is super easy to do now that steam supports having multiple libraries. No longer need to use Steam Mover.

 

This is how to do it:

 

1) Create a new steam library where you want your games to go on your SSD. 

 

2) Find your games in your current steam directory that you wish to move. Rename them to something, I just added OLD to the file name. EX: "Borderlands 2" = "Borderlands 2 OLD" This is in case something messes up you have a backup & can try again. You can delete the OLD folders after successfully moving everything.

 

3) After renaming all your folders, COPY them to your new steam folder. After copying them rename the new folders back to their original names. "Borderlands 2 OLD" = "Borderlands 2".

 

4) In steam, select the games you copied & tell steam to delete local content. Nothing will actually be deleted since you renamed the folders, it will just be removed from your installed games list. 

 

5)In steam click the games you copied & now wish to reinstall. When reinstalling tell steam to install the game to where you copied all the games to. It will discover the folders & "reinstall" without downloading anything. 

 

6) Go back and delete the "OLD" folders from your old Steam library once you verify everything is working. 

thx