Downloading Steam games from Backups

[Billy_Mays]

Im trying to re-download my steam games from my back up and theyre wanting to download completely, IM just wanting to get my games without having to redownload them, cause that'll be 3+ days waiting 

[Oshino Shinobu]

If you start the download, then copy over the backup into the folder it creates for the game, then get Steam to check for local content, it should pick up the files and won't download the whole thing. 

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

If you start the download, then copy over the backup into the folder it creates for the game, then get Steam to check for local content, it should pick up the files and won't download the whole thing. 

I try to do that, but my external HDD just stops to 0 bytes per second and the folder is 153gb

[Tabs]

14 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

I try to do that, but my external HDD just stops to 0 bytes per second and the folder is 153gb

That makes it sound more like a problem with the external hard drive than a specific problem with Steam. You should have no issues moving or copying files to/from the disk, and if you do, it's a bigger issue than having to redownload your games.

[Billy_Mays]

4 minutes ago, Tabs said:

That makes it sound more like a problem with the external hard drive than a specific problem with Steam. You should have no issues moving or copying files to/from the disk, and if you do, it's a bigger issue than having to redownload your games.

It does that sometimes though