Question - moving Steam from one drive to another

[Aerlynn]

Hello, I'd like a quick and simple answer: I just bought a new, bigger HD and I plan to move Steam there, what I need to know is if I select the new drive/folder via client, do screenshots and videos also move automatically?

[Diogenes49]

why not just clone the whole drive?

[Aerlynn]

Originally posted by Diogenes49:

why not just clone the whole drive?

I might choose that option, but I'd still like to know what happens in my scenario

[Realigo Actual]

AFAIK, no they do not. Steam's UI under Storage settings only cares about your Library folder. Since they can take a lot of space and you might have involved different drives.

Your screenshots and other stuff are under your userdata folder, which doesn't move.

Back up the base Steam folder first, with or without the steamapps/common folder, which will be your games, and therefore be massive, then just move the Steam folder to the new drive, and Steam should take care of everything. Just remember that it's the steamapps/common folder, and not the steamapps/ folder, because the config files for your games are under that, and if you break those, you need to redownload the game.

Oh, and, obviously Steam should not be running when you do this.

[Aerlynn]

Originally posted by Realigo Actual:

AFAIK, no they do not. Steam's UI under Storage settings only cares about your Library folder. Since they can take a lot of space and you might have involved different drives.

Thanks for the detailed answer!