weird problem with Steam

[lovingGamer]

So i have only one game installed from Steam "Skyrim" i got myself a new HDD. and I installed Skyrim on that new HDD, since i'll be never again using my old HDD i wanted to move Steam file to my new HDD. Done that, and when i tried to start skyrim it said it couldn't locate Steam...

 

I really don't want to redownload skyrim reinstall all mods my net sucks..

[lovingGamer]

5 minutes ago, JaredM54 said:

Did you also reinstall Steam itself? You can't move just the game files.

nah i didn't reinstall steam i just moved Steam file to new HDD.. 

[MimigaKing]

 

7 minutes ago, lovingGamer said:

So i have only one game installed from Steam "Skyrim" i got myself a new HDD. and I installed Skyrim on that new HDD, since i'll be never again using my old HDD i wanted to move Steam file to my new HDD. Done that, and when i tried to start skyrim it said it couldn't locate Steam...

 

I really don't want to redownload skyrim reinstall all mods my net sucks..

Just like @JaredM54 said, you cannot just move the files back after reinstalling steam. If you want to backup the games before doing whatever, you MUST use steam's backup/restore feature. 

 

Unless you boot back on your old drive and backup skyrim the proper way, you'll have to redownload everything

[lovingGamer]

1 minute ago, MimigaKing said:

 

Just like @JaredM54 said, you cannot just move the files back after reinstalling steam. If you want to backup the games before doing whatever, you MUST use steam's backup/restore feature. 

 

Unless you boot back on your old drive and backup skyrim the proper way, you'll have to redownload everything

so now that means i have to redownload skyrim?

[MimigaKing]

Just now, lovingGamer said:

so now that means i have to redownload skyrim?

if you don't want to boot back on the old drive, yes.

[lovingGamer]

1 minute ago, MimigaKing said:

if you don't want to boot back on the old drive, yes.

fuck... boot back? old drive? wot? 

drive is still there i didn't remove it.. i just moved Steam file fuck it, i'll just redownload fucking skyrim and be happy.. 

[lovingGamer]

23 minutes ago, Quibiss said:

You can tell steam where to look for your steam games and programs, settings -> downloads -> steam library folders.

fock~ i already deleted skyrim folder

[ShadowCaptain]

19 minutes ago, lovingGamer said:

fock~ i already deleted skyrim folder

ah all you had to do was tell steam where your new library was and it would have just found the old files

[ShadowCaptain]

 

1 hour ago, JaredM54 said:

Did you also reinstall Steam itself? You can't move just the game files.

 

1 hour ago, MimigaKing said:

 

Just like @JaredM54 said, you cannot just move the files back after reinstalling steam. If you want to backup the games before doing whatever, you MUST use steam's backup/restore feature. 

 

Unless you boot back on your old drive and backup skyrim the proper way, you'll have to redownload everything

 

 

You are both wrong, you can move steam files wherever you want, you just have to make a new steam library folder, put the game in there (wherever you want) and point steam at it in settings, you can have as many steam library folders in as many places as you want and move them around wherever

 

When you "install/download" the game, Steam will see the files already exist and check them and then you can play

[MimigaKing]

1 minute ago, ShadowCaptain said:

 

 

 

 

You are both wrong, you can move steam files wherever you want, you just have to make a new steam library folder, put the game in there (wherever you want) and point steam at it in settings, you can have as many steam library folders in as many places as you want and move them around wherever

 

When you "install/download" the game, Steam will see the files already exist and check them and then you can play

Strange then, I tried it a few month ago with GTA V and he wouldn't see the games at all. even though he was downloading to the exact same folder where the files were

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, MimigaKing said:

Strange then, I tried it a few month ago with GTA V and he wouldn't see the games at all. even though he was downloading to the exact same folder where the files were

you have to make the steam library into an empty folder first, then add the files in, you cant do it after

[LogicalDrm]

11 hours ago, JaredM54 said:

That's what I meant, that you can't move just the game files.

What? Thats the most unclear answer you can give. Because all files CAN be moved. They just need some fiddlingbefore they work properly.

[PlayStation 2]

On 4/25/2016 at 7:40 AM, ShadowCaptain said:

you have to make the steam library into an empty folder first, then add the files in, you cant do it after

You can have the game folders in a folder then add that folder to Steam.

[LogicalDrm]

5 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

You can have the game folders in a folder then add that folder to Steam.

I've seen some people posting here about issues with that. Might be just Steam bug.

[etze]

you had to do a specific process in order to let steam 'locate' the new skyrim files

i dont remember exactly but it worked fine for me last time i moved one game's files to another hard disk