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episoder Aug 13, 2018 @ 1:25pm
[Solved] How to cancel a pending game cache verification?
Specificly SFM's cache. You know, this 20 gig ton of micro clutter. The cache is valid. My hdd is getting too hot reading all that crap. I don't need to do that and I don't like that.

So... How do i cancel the verification? I looked in the registry. No flags to find. Steam manifests. No flags to find. How do i make this damn client just use the damn tool as it is.

Fix: Done it after boot. The lowest temperature possible. It still ramped up from 33 to 44 degrees in the process. Hot summer. Okay.
Last edited by episoder; Aug 14, 2018 @ 5:09am
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Drab Aug 13, 2018 @ 1:59pm 
Turn off or restart your computer, or shutdown Steam via task manager. Seems pretty risky, but would stop it.
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episoder Aug 13, 2018 @ 3:24pm 
That's not the problem. It's not helping closing steam. I can't do anything without the thing. Offline right now. I wanna stop it from trying to verify at all. Not restart that crap every time i open steam.

Sure, maybe i can make it work and finish hopefully quick in the morning. When it's not too hot. It still don't like that my hard drive is hammered for no reason. Stupid old file system. Mmh.
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Snapjak Aug 13, 2018 @ 6:00pm 
I would be more concerned that verifying something causes your HDD to heat up that much. That's a dangerous sign.

Or are you confusing HDD with something else?
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episoder Aug 13, 2018 @ 6:16pm 
I'm certain i'm not confusing a thing. Even tho i know where my chips are in the chassis, which is a laptop btw, i just read the temperatures from the sensors. 45 degrees is pretty hot for a hard drive. More so when the s.m.a.r.t. values look like 11 and 46 optimal operating temperature.

Also SFM uses loose files. The harddrive gotta move it's head quite a lot to load all of this small stuff instead of a large data chunks. I know this stuff quite a bit. I'm sure nobody here could assist fixing this sorta technical old software trouble tho. Mhh.
Last edited by episoder; Aug 13, 2018 @ 6:16pm
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Snapjak Aug 13, 2018 @ 6:34pm 
45 isn't really a problem. If it were above 50 I'd start to worry.

One of my drives is sitting at 41 right now with two others under 40 (36 and 38) and that's in a desktop. So I'd expect a laptop drive to be at least a few degrees warmer on average.

As to the verification, once triggered I'm pretty sure it has to be finished.
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