THE 30 GB'S I DOWNLOADED OF RAINBOW SIX SIEGE IS GONE

[nc17]

I was going to continue downloading R6, i was on low disk space but i didnt think it would cause a problem. I made it continue, and it said something like "There isnt enough disk space for download" and when i opened up some space, all of the 30 gb's that i downloaded are gone. I am really upset and angry at the moment. Where did that 30 GB go? Did Steam delete the 30 GB of game files? It wouldnt be such a problem if my internet went up more then 100 KB in the morning and about 400 KB'S after midnight. I had my laptop open like this for 3 days straight. Thanks in advance.

[Doleou]

oof my guy

[Gyattzilla]

get a better hard drive

[crunchyfrog]

This is why you should NEVER do this.

How Steam handles downloads is like this. It downloads compressed and encrypted data then unpacks and writes it finally into it's correct space.

So BEFORE you attempt to download anything you MUST have the following:
(1) No more than 90% of the intended drive space used
(2) Allow up to THREE TIMES the total file size to allow it to decompress and unencrypt.

So, that's why it happened to you - it would have been trying to download, but because there was not enough space, it couldn't write the FINAL data to its intended space.

So to be clear, if you have say, a 1TB drive, and you've used 850GB of it, you have 150GB remaining.
If you are going to download a 50GB games, you might think "cool, that will take it up to 100GB which is 90%". WRONG. You must allow up to 1q50GB which takes it to its absolute limit.

So I'm sorry you experienced this, but there's only one way round it - MAKE SPACE.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

I assume an update happen, when a new update appar, it resets the download/update because it's replacing the files with the latest version of the game.

Also if you plan to download large apps, and pause it to finish later, it's wise not to take the free space away from it before you resume the downloa, always leaves enough space for the game.

[cate]

crunchyfrog の投稿を引用：

This is why you should NEVER do this.

How Steam handles downloads is like this. It downloads compressed and encrypted data then unpacks and writes it finally into it's correct space.

So BEFORE you attempt to download anything you MUST have the following:
(1) No more than 90% of the intended drive space used
(2) Allow up to THREE TIMES the total file size to allow it to decompress and unencrypt.

So, that's why it happened to you - it would have been trying to download, but because there was not enough space, it couldn't write the FINAL data to its intended space.

So to be clear, if you have say, a 1TB drive, and you've used 850GB of it, you have 150GB remaining.
If you are going to download a 50GB games, you might think "cool, that will take it up to 100GB which is 90%". WRONG. You must allow up to 1q50GB which takes it to its absolute limit.

So I'm sorry you experienced this, but there's only one way round it - MAKE SPACE.

Damn! Cheers for the advice. I suppose I'd outta begin culling my games all over again or get yet another hard drive

[crunchyfrog]

cate の投稿を引用：

crunchyfrog の投稿を引用：

This is why you should NEVER do this.

How Steam handles downloads is like this. It downloads compressed and encrypted data then unpacks and writes it finally into it's correct space.

So BEFORE you attempt to download anything you MUST have the following:
(1) No more than 90% of the intended drive space used
(2) Allow up to THREE TIMES the total file size to allow it to decompress and unencrypt.

So, that's why it happened to you - it would have been trying to download, but because there was not enough space, it couldn't write the FINAL data to its intended space.

So to be clear, if you have say, a 1TB drive, and you've used 850GB of it, you have 150GB remaining.
If you are going to download a 50GB games, you might think "cool, that will take it up to 100GB which is 90%". WRONG. You must allow up to 1q50GB which takes it to its absolute limit.

So I'm sorry you experienced this, but there's only one way round it - MAKE SPACE.

Damn! Cheers for the advice. I suppose I'd outta begin culling my games all over again or get yet another hard drive

Yup, this pretty much.

I get you. I suffer from this myself.

Thankfully, hard drives are cheap as chips and the last one I bought was back in March and it was £40 for a 1 or 2TB USB 3 model.

Although I do tend to go wild, and download bloody everything and then every so often I take a look at myself and get a bit more realistic and start clearing up space by removing games that I haven't been playing. Same old.

Thankfully, if you've got no problems with internet bandwidth and usage, then Steam has no problem with downloading and redownloading to your heart's content.

[nc17]

crunchyfrog の投稿を引用：

This is why you should NEVER do this.

How Steam handles downloads is like this. It downloads compressed and encrypted data then unpacks and writes it finally into it's correct space.

So BEFORE you attempt to download anything you MUST have the following:
(1) No more than 90% of the intended drive space used
(2) Allow up to THREE TIMES the total file size to allow it to decompress and unencrypt.

So, that's why it happened to you - it would have been trying to download, but because there was not enough space, it couldn't write the FINAL data to its intended space.

So to be clear, if you have say, a 1TB drive, and you've used 850GB of it, you have 150GB remaining.
If you are going to download a 50GB games, you might think "cool, that will take it up to 100GB which is 90%". WRONG. You must allow up to 1q50GB which takes it to its absolute limit.

So I'm sorry you experienced this, but there's only one way round it - MAKE SPACE.

Thank you so much for the advice kind sir, really cleared up my mind. Appreciate it!