STEAM now allows you to move the game from a STEAM library folder to another

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1 hour ago, Minibois said:

Did they disable multiple Steam libraries on one drive with this update too? Can't get it to work anymore (And can't delete the program files X86 folder either)

I'm curious to hear why you would do such a thing

[zMeul]

3 hours ago, Minibois said:

Well I upgraded my PC, so now I wanted to add another folder (I want Skyrim on my C: drive, but rather not in program files X86 since that occasionally screws with mods) so I wanted to add another folder just on my C: drive, but couldn't because Steam just wouldn't let me make another library folder on C:.

you can't have two libraries on the same drive

[zMeul]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

You can "move" game to another drive by first backing it up and then just restoring it do a new location.

why?!?! 

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

On 1/23/2017 at 8:51 AM, ARikozuM said:

I'm more surprised there was no news story for the beta build's "release" (so to speak). 

 

Edit: 

Just found the release notes for the beta build that was available January 17, 2017.

 

From https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/586991815869459128

 

 

 

If you look at my earlier post (in this thread) the screen shot shows a system that has had the steam library off the main C: drive for some time. The detail of version showing is not the current 19 January 2017 steam client build, and I am not a Beta tester!!

 

@Master Disaster This as a news release seems to me, that it may be a FAKE news story rather than an actual new feature, which BTW looking at this thread is getting plenty of publicity so THAT is working, or could it be that this is this how new features progress through the testing process?

[ARikozuM]

@SydneySideSteveSomewheres This isn't about choosing what directory to install to. It's about moving a currently installed program to another drive. Installing to a different drive has been around for a long time, but being able to validate and move a game in a short sequence is a bit newer. 

[zMeul]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

being able to validate and move a game in a short sequence is a bit newer

well, STEAM doesn't need to validate the game  install if the move was done properly

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

12 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

@SydneySideSteveSomewheres This isn't about choosing what directory to install to. It's about moving a currently installed program to another drive. Installing to a different drive has been around for a long time, but being able to validate and move a game in a short sequence is a bit newer. 

 

@ARikozuM So with this client update, which will be applied next time Steam is opened on that machine, the majority of that 7.56 GB, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam (an NVMe SSD) windows directory folder will be relocated to where that system's current Steam library is located and all Steam games launch from? Which is and has been for many months now a separate drive (a 1 TB SSHD) from that of the main windows operating environment.

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, SydneySideSteveSomewheres said:

@ARikozuM So with this client update, which will be applied next time Steam is opened on that machine, the majority of that 7.56 GB, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam (an NVMe SSD) windows directory folder will be relocated to where that system's current Steam library is located and all Steam games launch from? Which is and has been for many months now a separate drive (a 1 TB SSHD) from that of the main windows operating environment.

No.

Previously:

If you installed Game A in C:\SteamLibrary and you wanted to move it to a different drive (D:), you had to cut and paste Game A's Steam folder to D:\SteamLibrary and once Steam opened again, it would see the game in that directory and will validate it. 

 

Now: 

You can go to Game A's properties, select "Move Install Folder", and select D:\SteamLibrary. Steam will then move the folder to said location (and presumably validating it) rather than needing to reinstall or restart.

[Morgan Everett]

I'm using the beta version of Steam, and the option isn't there for me.

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Morgan Everett said:

I'm using the beta version of Steam, and the option isn't there for me.

Have you downloaded the recent update if you're not automatically doing so?

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, Morgan Everett said:

I'm using the beta version of Steam, and the option isn't there for me.

might wanna go back to the retail client

[Morgan Everett]

Nevermind, got it working. Cool update.

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

Interesting and helpful and certainly easier possibly than the way I encountered to shift my library. This was done by uninstalling Steam and then reinstalling it and during that process directing the game save folder to be the external drive, this then leads to the game files being, unfortunately, downloaded again.

 

Enabling as you say the validation without the need to instal basically every title in your library again, thus saving precious time and bandwidth.

 

However, will the update offer an ability to download a game file library in its entirety to an external device and transfer this data to another machine, for example, a person with a satellite internet service where there is not the bandwidth allowance, for the re-downloading of an entire library of titles?

 

[AshleyAshes]

35 minutes ago, zMeul said:

might wanna go back to the retail client

For the love of god, stop calling it 'The Retail Client', it's no more or less retail than the Beta client as access to either is universal to all Steam users.  It's the stable client.

[piemadd]

5 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I'm curious to hear why you would do such a thing

pirating for a friend

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6 minutes ago, Implosivetech said:

pirating for a friend

I don't see how that would be related, and obviously no one here would do such a thing

[zMeul]

44 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

For the love of god, stop calling it 'The Retail Client', it's no more or less retail than the Beta client as access to either is universal to all Steam users.  It's the stable client.

there is a difference and it matters from a programmer's perspective - me

[piemadd]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

I don't see how that would be related, and obviously I would do such a thing

wait wat?

 

ok i did change what you said...

 

Spoiler

BUT IS THIS A POSSIBLE EXPOSING OF RYAN VICKERS!?!?!?!?!

 

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1 minute ago, Implosivetech said:

wait wat?

 

ok i did change what you said...

 

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BUT IS THIS A POSSIBLE EXPOSING OF RYAN VICKERS!?!?!?!?!

 

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[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

there is a difference and it matters from a programmer's perspective - me

But programmers call them 'Stable Builds'...

[zMeul]

3 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

But programmers call them 'Stable Builds'...

no mate, programmers call them ALPHA, BETA, retail - ALPHA and BETA builds can be stable and the retail can be unstable if it wasn't checked properly

generally, unstable builds are called "pre-"

 

the retail is what "ships" (gets distributed) to the clients

[piemadd]

8 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

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¯\_ツ_/¯

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

11 minutes ago, zMeul said:

no mate, programmers call them ALPHA, BETA, retail - ALPHA and BETA builds can be stable and the retail can be unstable if it wasn't checked properly

generally, unstable builds are called "pre-"

 

the retail is what "ships" (gets distributed) to the clients

I am a programmer as well, and you are actually wrong in this case. The term 'retail' refers exclusively to the physical distribution of software, such as in floppies, discs and thumb drives, and Discord does not exist on any of these mediums. The term you are looking for is a 'release build', which is a bit different.

[transposedmessenger]

Yeah I don't have many, if any, games on my SSD anymore. I have them all on a separate HDD, since I'm a filthy casual now I don't really mind

[zMeul]

40 minutes ago, Colonel_Gerdauf said:

I am a programmer as well, and you are actually wrong in this case. The term 'retail' refers exclusively to the physical distribution of software, such as in floppies, discs and thumb drives, and Discord does not exist on any of these mediums. The term you are looking for is a 'release build', which is a bit different.

it's the same thing if it ships on physical media or not

"release build" is referred to the very 1st retail build