adding ark as a non steam game help

[Ronincat]

Ran into a problem where I had to copy ark to another hardrive and delete old files. However I can't get the new copy to register within my steam library. Does anyone know what to do?

[gamertaboo]

You need to click Install on Ark in your library, and make a "steamlibrary" folder on the other hard drive if you don't have one already. Then quit the Install for Ark.

Now go into the SteamLibrary folder and make a new folder called "steamapps," and then inside of that folder make another called "common" and place the Ark folder in the common folder. Then go back into the Library, click install, point it to the SteamLibrary folder on the correct HDD again, and it should find the files itself.

Hard to explain, hope that makes sense.

[margalus]

Once you buy it, it's in your library. You cannot add it again. All you need to do is download it again.

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Originally posted by Ronin-Cat:

Ran into a problem where I had to copy ark to another hardrive and delete old files. However I can't get the new copy to register within my steam library. Does anyone know what to do?

Remove the game fully form the old library so steam says it is uninstalled then add a new steamlibrary folder to the drive with the new install and play Ark within that library. Then go to install ark on steam and select the locaiton you placed the already isntalled Ark directory tree and it will automatically find them.

[gamertaboo]

I'm sorry I messed up on the folder structure in my first post. You need to have the HDD, a SteamLibrary folder, then a SteamApps folder, and then the Common folder. It should look like so:

http://i.imgur.com/yhXGqNa.png

I literally just did this the other day, sorry for the mixup though.