Steam

[Nergybrahh]

I uninstalled steam and reinstalled on my ssd but kept all the games on my HDD, I set the location for downloads to go in J:\Steam and the games are located in J:\Steam\steamapps\common but steam wont locate the games, I went to install csgo just to see what happened and it found csgo but then disregarded it and started downloading a new one

[Master Disaster]

Click...

Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Location > Add Location

point it to the existing folder and click OK

It should then add all your existing games to the library list.

[failblox]

You need to add a library pointing to that directory.

[Nergybrahh]

Click...

Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Location > Add Location

point it to the existing folder and click OK

It should then add all your existing games to the library list.

I have, the location is set to J:\Steam which is the only one I can set it to, if i set it to steam apps or common then it says it must be a empty folder

[Master Disaster]

I have, the location is set to J:\Steam which is the only one I can set it to, if i set it to steam apps or common then it says it must be a empty folder

Sounds like something has gone wrong then.

Your gonna have to redownload your games.

[LogicalDrm]

I have, the location is set to J:\Steam which is the only one I can set it to, if i set it to steam apps or common then it says it must be a empty folder

While testing this, did you try to verify game cache?

[Benji_w]

I uninstalled steam and reinstalled on my ssd but kept all the games on my HDD, I set the location for downloads to go in J:\Steam and the games are located in J:\Steam\steamapps\common but steam wont locate the games, I went to install csgo just to see what happened and it found csgo but then disregarded it and started downloading a new one

 

Are you sure it's downloading them again rather than discovering them, it's easy to confuse the two.