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Running steam games off HDD

ItsMinJunLol
By ItsMinJunLol
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Hi. I would like to run my steam games off my hard drive, which is external. It has usb 3.0 and I have played lol from it and it runs fine. Only problem is that I play 99% of my games off steam, which I don't know how to make it so that I can run steam off my hard drive. I am on a mac(kill me) and I am constantly running out of space due to the 120gb size and ~80GB OS size, so I need more storage space. How do I run my steam games off a external hard drive on mac? Thanks in advance.

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In Steam: View -> Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders

 

Create a folder on your external hard drive and add it to the library. Now when you install games, you can select your external hard drive as the destination. You should be able to move your current games by right clicking on them, click on Properties, click the "Local Files" tab, and then click on "Move Install Folder..." and select your new Steam Library location.

 

Note: This might be different on a Mac.

-KuJoe

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3 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

In Steam: View -> Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders

 

Create a folder on your external hard drive and add it to the library. Now when you install games, you can select your external hard drive as the destination. You should be able to move your current games by right clicking on them, click on Properties, click the "Local Files" tab, and then click on "Move Install Folder..." and select your new Steam Library location.

 

Note: This might be different on a Mac.

Thank you. It worked.

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29 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

You should be able to move your current games by right clicking on them, click on Properties, click the "Local Files" tab, and then click on "Move Install Folder..." and select your new Steam Library location.

So nice that they finally added this. Was so tedious doing it manually.

 
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2 hours ago, ItsMinJunLol said:

120gb size and ~80GB OS size

LOL i am not sure why your OS is 80gb. It should be under 30, maybe 40.

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