Transferring games from micro sd to micro sd

[Fireleo]

Hey guys, with some Black Friday deals with memory cards going on, I’ve decided to upgrade my 400gb to a 1tb micro sd. Is transferring from one micro sd to another as easy as drag and drop? I’m assuming I have to format the new 1tb in the deck first.

[[KAMI] RedWyvern]

It is, if you have a way of connecting 2 SD cards to the Deck (or some other Linux system).
Just format the new card and copy the contents of the old card to the new card, this should work.

[Fireleo]

Originally posted by KAMI RedWyvern:

It is, if you have a way of connecting 2 SD cards to the Deck (or some other Linux system).
Just format the new card and copy the contents of the old card to the new card, this should work.

Thank you so much for the response, I was planning to get this to connect to an external monitor.

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Would the deck just be able to transfer straight to and from the device?

[[KAMI] RedWyvern]

In Desktop Mode it lets you do anything you want to the data, including simply copying it.

To transfer your data:
Put the new card in the Deck's internal slot, then format the new card, in Game Mode.
After this, put the old card in the dock, open it in Dolphin on Desktop Mode, use right-click > select all and then paste in the new card.
This should copy everything over to the new card.
Remove the old card if you're done as Game Mode might get confused from duplicates.

If that easy way for some reason doesn't work, there are ways around that, but it should be a simple copy-paste operation.

[pxwroro]

hi there. im trying to copy my game from to a new sd card but it turns out the game doesnt come out when i do it.

first i tried copying everything but it saya that i cannot access the lost+found folders. and ive read that you can just copy the ‘steamapps’ folder and it will also work but as i said it doesnt come out when i checked on storage in game mode. did i do something wrong?

i also noticed that my ‘steamapps’ folder doesnt have compactdata (im not sure how this works as im new to Linux). only ‘common’ ‘downloading’ & ‘temp’ exist in there. id assume that the common folder is where the game is stored but it still doesnt work for me. is there a workaround to this?

[retrogunner]

Here's how I would approach it to do it all on the Steam Deck:
* power off Deck. Remove existing 400GB card. # this is the safest way to remove it
* power on Deck. In game mode, insert 1TB, then format it.
* hook up hub with power. insert 400GB card into hub (whatever works)
* Open up Steam Deck's Settings > Storage. You should see internal and both SD Cards
* Still in Storage Settings, move games from 400GB to 1TB card
repeat moves
* power off Deck and remove hub or at least the 400GB storage.
* power on Deck now having the 1TB storage

And don't forget to use CyroByte33's steam-deck-utils to keep the prefixes & compdata with the games on the 1TB Card.