Transferring Games from an External Hard Drive

[Benjii]

I'm buying a new PC shortly and I want to be able to get the AAA titles this year and beyond..

However I live in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ area and the only internet we can get is limited to 30GB per month to share between a family of 5...

My father travels for a work a lot and he gets free premium internet in the hotels he stays in (they have 300mb/s unlimited), I was wondering if I gave him an external hard drive to download the games onto and transfer them to my main PC when he comes home would I run into any problems such as steam not recognizing the game file etc..

Thanks in advance.

[76561198218426745]

Your father should back up the entire steamapps folder, as Steam requires the appmanifest_#.acf files stored in there to recognize the games as installed. Otherwise, it should work.

[76561198218426745]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Nightenhelser:

This would require sharing your account details with your father, which is against the SSA you agreed to.

Not necessarily. The OP could family share their library with their father, who could then download the games to the external drive.

[Rose]

what did u do then?

[76561198218426745]

I can't speak for other people, but registering for web sites is just something I've come to accept. Everything requires registration these days. I must have 300+ accounts across the Internet, probably more I have forgotten. A Steam account takes 2, maybe 3 minutes to set up. Logging in takes literally seconds. Downloading is set it and forget it, you click "Install" and go back to whatever you were doing.

The father doesn't necessarily do business on their laptop, or if they do, it's not guaranteed that the company provided them with a laptop. Even if they did, it's not a certainty that the company cares if the employee downloads games to an external hard drive (not even the provided laptop) while on business trips, and it would be difficult to track over public wireless at a hotel anyways.

The OP can ask. The worst case scenario is that the father says no.

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[Benjii]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Nightenhelser:

Opprinnelig skrevet av habitualaction:

Not necessarily. The OP could family share their library with their father, who could then download the games to the external drive.

But let's look at this logically.

-The father would need to make his own steam account (you think he'd do this?)
-Then the OP here, his son, will need to family share the games with his father.
-On his business trips, the father would need to log into steam and start downloading the games, doing all of this on his (probably) company-issued laptop which may or may not allow users to download anything depending on how the company has their security configured.
-If he brought his own computer in addition to his company laptop, then he'd have to carry yet more luggage with him


Seems like a lot of hoops to go through here and this is if the father is even willing to waste his time doing all of this.

My father has agreed to "wasting his time" doing this and it will not be an issue with his company so all I would need to do is set up a steam account on his laptop and share my library?

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