Help (Not enough disk space?)

[Tadashi]

So i had dota installed on my com, and i was off playing some other games for a while, and i come back to it a day or two later with it requiring an update, and i click on it, BOOM. Not enough DISK SPACE. and i still have 102 gig left, so i think 'Hey, fancy that a lil' error how cyoot' and delete dota and try to reinstall it. But it still doesn't let me download it, and every time i try it just goes 'not enough disk space'. Help plz? :<

[Divinity]

try deleteing and reinstalling some times u just have to do it or see if u have disk quota enabled

[Tadashi]

disk quota? whassat o.o and as far as reinstalling goes, i've done it countless times with no luck ;-;

[Kurzidan]

How much space is left is C:/
How much space is left where steam installs games?

is there a bunch of games being installed in steam?
But aren't even close to actually installed?

If you don't have enough space in C:/ some minor space limitation errors can occur

If you don't have enough space where steam games are actually installed, in which steam will likely over-shoot before allowing the actual install, just to ensure it will succeed - then errors can occur

If there's a bunch of games being downloaded by steam, Steam allocates space for those games before hand. - The disk will look normal but Steam will assume it's full, because it's Manager plans on it being full - try and install a brand new (free) game and see how much space Steam thinks you're playing with.

Them not being even close to actually installed just helps the previous point.

[Kurzidan]

Originally posted by Angry Feminist Virgin:

disk quota? whassat

Disk Quota is a ... reservation. - In multiple forms.

The simplist being having say 100GB of space locked for usage only by Admin/ C:/

Where you might have a 1 to 2 terabyte hard drive - but someone else has decided for you that when you get to that last 100GB, You're SoL


An Alternate to this is something you likely wouldn't see - System Reserve. Something you (or your OS installer) decided on OS installation/Hard Drive Setup for the OS
System Reserve actually takes and hides its portion of space, though, afaik. So you wouldn't think "oh I still have 100GBs"

[Tadashi]

But i can download other games freely, like, on steam, too. Only dota is affected by this ;-;
i've still got 107 gig on my :C, and when i try to download it i make sure nothing else is being downloaded anywhere (chrome, EI, whatever) but it still doesn't work...
q.q

[Kurzidan]

are the other downloads as "big" as dota or its update? It's possibly a new restriction that capped how large of a download you......

welll.. no. wait.. Is it steam saying not enough space, or your computer?

[Tadashi]

steam is saying it, my computer has no quarrel with me downloading it.

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[graystripe]

here is a solution.

go to steam settings

go click download tab

lastly, clear download cache.

[Tadashi]

done...

[Tadashi]

Oh, btw, this is the message steam gives when i try to D/L...
An error occured while installing Dota 2 (Not enough disk space)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\downloading\570\game\core\tools\help\fgd\base.txt

[Kodaxmax]

If you start an install steam will reserve disk space for the full game, even if you dont finish the download.

[Tadashi]

;.;

[Tadashi]

Wow wtf it just recovered on it's own
Thanks for the help guys! sorry for troubles xD

[Kodaxmax]

Originally posted by Angry Feminist Virgin:

Wow wtf it just recovered on it's own
Thanks for the help guys! sorry for troubles xD

mayby ur pc just needed a restart XD

[Tadashi]

Yeah lol xD