Steam game library space.

[iemand dood]

I`d like to make a backup of my whole library, at least games which can be downloaded from steam servers(not from origin or uplay). Is there a way to know in advance how much space is required? I know that you can backup only currently installed games, but still.
P.S. WITHOUT workshop mods, just vanilla games.

[wuddih]

about the size of the .\Steam\steamapps\common folder

[iemand dood]

Originally posted by wuddih:

about the size of the .\Steam\steamapps\common folder

I mean whole accaount library. I have 300 games in it and only 5 installed. I want to know the size of all games on account , not installed ones.

[sfnhltb]

If you highlight your entire library by clicking the first and shift clicking the last, then right click install it should tell you the size (then you cancel the installation of course).

[Kargor]

Originally posted by sfnhltb:

If you highlight your entire library by clicking the first and shift clicking the last, then right click install it should tell you the size (then you cancel the installation of course).

Actually, this gives you the additional size for the games that you haven't installed yet.

To try this, select a not-installed game and an installed game, and remember the number it gives you. Then just select the not-installed game -- and you'll get the same number.

Which kind of makes sense considering it's about installing games; this is why I tested it in the first place. Games that are already installed don't need additional disk space.

Thus, add the size of the existing game directories.

[crunchyfrog]

I seriously hope you back up the games using the manual drag and drop method in Windows. DO NOT use Steam's offical backup method as it's never worked proplerly.

The worst part of it is that you cannot find out it hasn't worked until it's far too late - when you try to reinstall them.

I don't know why this still fails to work for so many people but it aint worth the gamble, especially when you can easily copy and paste normally.

[Lambros]

Well there is supposedly a webpage that tells you how big your whole steam collection is. But best way is mutliple drives with the faster ones for the bigger more frequent games. Just copy pasta the folders in common. Though with all the endlesss updates its probably not worth it to make a master copy unless you run straight from executable in folder and forgo achievements.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

I don't know why this still fails to work for so many people but it aint worth the gamble, especially when you can easily copy and paste normally.

I've used Steam for "ages" now, and my impression is that Steam has next to no development department. Whenever there's a bug, it takes months to fix -- UNLESS it's a bug that affects their income. This feels like they have outsourced everything, so they only spend money for bug fixes when their own revenue is at stake.

Backups don't affect them, so that part doesn't get fixed. And, realistically, it's not needed for anything anyway.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

I don't know why this still fails to work for so many people but it aint worth the gamble, especially when you can easily copy and paste normally.

I've used Steam for "ages" now, and my impression is that Steam has next to no development department. Whenever there's a bug, it takes months to fix -- UNLESS it's a bug that affects their income. This feels like they have outsourced everything, so they only spend money for bug fixes when their own revenue is at stake.

Backups don't affect them, so that part doesn't get fixed. And, realistically, it's not needed for anything anyway.

Nope, I doubt that is the case.

You know Valve has a "flat" structure to thier company, right? In other words, anyone can work on what they wish. This is great on the one hand as it allows people to keep invested and happier by not getting bogged down with thankless tasks. But it also can be a problem because it can mean that jobs that NEED doing but nobody wants to don't get done.

I suspect this might be more appropriately the case.

I never like the "they don't care" excuse as there's no way of knowing the slightest hint of whether that's true.

[CHORI]

hi