where is the steam folder in ubuntu?

[did he dead?]

i just installed steam natively on ubuntu and would like to transfer the game files into the steamapp folder. so i dont have to download the files again. where is the steam folder located under ubuntu?

[Evil Penguin]

It's located in the Home folder (it's hidden).

[did he dead?]

Originally posted by SolidSteel:

It's located in the Home folder (it's hidden).

ahhh i see, thanks for the quick response!

[rs_matr1x]

~/.local/share/Steam

[SinSchism]

For me, it wasn't hidden. It was just ~/Steam

[spazblade]

Is it possible to move the Steam folder to say, my external drive since I have a 1TB external where I store all of my Windows games and it still has a lot of space left compared to my 30GB WUBI alloted Ubuntu?

If I moved it, how would I go about launching Steam? Is it possible to save space by somehow only having one copy of TF2 that works under Linux and Windows rather than one for each?

[AlienDude]

spaz, that would be possible, but you'd need to have your external drive using a file system that supports the executable bit, such as ext2/3/4. Since Windows has terrible file system support, I don't recommend you reformat your external HDD since windows would not be able to read from it. You can use Steam's built-in library folders feature under Settings > Downloads, or you can use Linux's mount features to mound your external HDD (or a partition on it) to ~/Steam or wherever your steam folder is regularly located. Short answer: Yes, but it's complicated. Cheers!

[76561198075189538]

Actually, it is quite easy. Exit Steam, move your Steam folder to where you'd like, then run /usr/bin/steam, and it'll ask you where you moved it to, then you're done.

[SinSchism]

Originally posted by scott_test123:

Actually, it is quite easy. Exit Steam, move your Steam folder to where you'd like, then run /usr/bin/steam, and it'll ask you where you moved it to, then you're done.

Loving that, I must add.

[spazblade]

Originally posted by scott_test123:

Actually, it is quite easy. Exit Steam, move your Steam folder to where you'd like, then run /usr/bin/steam, and it'll ask you where you moved it to, then you're done.

Alright I've moved it, after I reclick Steam on the Launcher and then click 'Search', what am I supposed to link it to?
I try /media/[username]/Iomega_HDD/SteamLinux/Steam/steam but I'm getting a "Please pick a valid Steam content directory" message...

[cat-man]

"ls -a" will show all the folders starting with "." for future reference.

[Treize.Khushrenada.]

Originally posted by Hormel Chavez:

"ls -a" will show all the folders starting with "." for future reference.

Appreciate u saying that.

[Shark]

ctrl+h let's you few hidden files in Nautilus as well.

[dombaseman]

In "Home" folder press Ctrl+H and after that .steam/steam/steamapps/common/ARK/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxNoEditor ... and you have the Game.ini file.

[Lord Vltor]

As of today. 2021, March 30th, Mint 19.3 XFCE, I can't find my Steam folder, like if it were nonexistent.
Asking any game to "Browse local files" gives no response from the system. No window open.
Launching a search from File Manager turns out no results.
Looking into ~/.local/share/, there's no "Steam" folder.
No ~/.steam/ folder either.
I feel rather stupid, but I can't find Steam anywhere.

[Ormgryd]

You can also start steam rightclick a game choose properties go to local files and push browse to find your steam folder.