steam says 0mb available disk space

[Carwyn]

Im not sure if anyone knows whats going on here, but i went to install a game today and it says my disk space is 0mb available, i have about 55 gigs free on my hard drive, and no external, no matter what game i try to install (even a 50mb one like Downwell) it says 0 mb available and it cant install.

[Annihilation]

Publicado originalmente por Tekkss:

Publicado originalmente por Knabzie:

I Found a Fix.

If you recently plugged in an external hard drive and downloaded games onto you might have set it as your main hard drive for steam to download on.

-Go to Steam Settings
-Downloads
-Click Steam Library Folders
-Then Rightclick the directory your main hard drive / SSD is located
-Press Default Folder.
-Done, Download games again.

Hope This Helped, This problem happened to me so I wanted to try and help others with the problem. :2015cookie:

This was the fix for me.
I use to have a hard drive dedicated for steam games. Therefore I set it up to be the default library. When I removed that hard drive I was left with this bug.

THIS WORKED THANKS SOOOO MUCH

[Darkspeedster]

Publicado originalmente por teitandersen:

I am looking for help with this also. On my MBP2012 there is not "Settings" in Steam. Even if I search in HELP it shows me nothing. If I click on "STEAM" (just left of the Apple icon) I can pick Preferences -is this what you are referring to as Settings? When I do so, I can click on Downloads but there is no right-click options on the steam folder. Nothing happens if I right-click.

I just purchased Civ VI and I would like to play it. Just seems crazy that my hard drive is showing 0kb available inside Steam when I have 80GB free...

Have you tried clearing the download cache? btw it's in preferences > Downloads and the option should be in the bottom

[-=GHS=- SMGSterlin]

Just gonna add my input here for anyone who may have had multiple drives installed in their PC, but went down to a single drive and is now getting the "0 MB available" error.

Had the 0 MB Available error, and turns out Steam still thought that my D:// drive was still installed, it doesn't actually show that drive, only C:// pops up, but in the backend it's still pointing the game download to the old install location. Going to Steam>Settings>Download>Steam Library Folders and setting the C:// drive to default manually fixed it, it apparently does not default to it automatically.

The weird thing is though, I tried creating a separate Steam Library before doing this fix and it told me my C:// drive could not be written to and was in read-only mode, preventing me from making another library. I double checked it's properties and it had full control set as it should be, but Steam kept giving me that error, this hasn't been "fixed" yet, but it's currently not an issue since the default library is already where I want it anyways. Just something to throw out there in case someone else has this oddity happen.

[pappi]

Publicado originalmente por Knabzii:

I Found a Fix.

If you recently plugged in an external hard drive and downloaded games onto you might have set it as your main hard drive for steam to download on.

-Go to Steam Settings
-Downloads
-Click Steam Library Folders
-Then Rightclick the directory your main hard drive / SSD is located
-Press Default Folder.
-Done, Download games again.

Hope This Helped, This problem happened to me so I wanted to try and help others with the problem. :2015cookie:

This was my solution as well. Looking for this would never have crossed my mind. Thank you

[cl@m Hulk Hoagie (Crawsome)]

#6 solved my issue, thanks!

[LiquidFrogs37]

Was having this same problem, wanted to install borderlands 2 on my steam games hard drive but hard drive was FAT32 and not NTFS, so it couldn't download. I currently don't have my hard drive in, and I didn't have any games on the actual computer. when setting a steam library folder steam recognized I had space but nt when I wanted to install. I re started steam multiple times, went through all my folders looking for "SteamLibrary" and there was nothing. I made another when specifying my downloads folder, and I then deleted it. I selected steamapps as download folder and it worked fine

steam > settings > downloads > steam library folders > create new folder > delete it in file explorer, should work. if it doesn't try making ANOTHER steam library folder in steam apps

[LiquidFrogs37]

Publicado originalmente por -=GHS=- SMGSterlin:

Just gonna add my input here for anyone who may have had multiple drives installed in their PC, but went down to a single drive and is now getting the "0 MB available" error.

Had the 0 MB Available error, and turns out Steam still thought that my D:// drive was still installed, it doesn't actually show that drive, only C:// pops up, but in the backend it's still pointing the game download to the old install location. Going to Steam>Settings>Download>Steam Library Folders and setting the C:// drive to default manually fixed it, it apparently does not default to it automatically.
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The weird thing is though, I tried creating a separate Steam Library before doing this fix and it told me my C:// drive could not be written to and was in read-only mode, preventing me from making another library. I double checked it's properties and it had full control set as it should be, but Steam kept giving me that error, this hasn't been "fixed" yet, but it's currently not an issue since the default library is already where I want it anyways. Just something to throw out there in case someone else has this oddity happen.

when I discnnect my hard drive steam recognizes it every time, and I have learned to go into steam library folders whenever I plug in my hard drive. not sure what my problem was, but making a new steam library folder and deleting it worked

[Katatonik]

Publicado originalmente por StaxonStaxoFlapJackx:

Found a fix.

Setting>Downloads>Steam Library Folders>Click your folder>Repair Folder

Did this running Steam as Admin, not sure if it makes a difference tho.

Don't use this.
I tried using this, but it just erased the downloaded data which is counter productive and not actually fixing it.

It just delete and restarting your download.

[Pyro]

Publicado originalmente por Knabzie:

I Found a Fix.

If you recently plugged in an external hard drive and downloaded games onto you might have set it as your main hard drive for steam to download on.

-Go to Steam Settings
-Downloads
-Click Steam Library Folders
-Then Rightclick the directory your main hard drive / SSD is located
-Press Default Folder.
-Done, Download games again.

Hope This Helped, This problem happened to me so I wanted to try and help others with the problem. :2015cookie:

This Works Thanks

[Pouko]

Publicado originalmente por Kabbage:

I Found a Fix.

If you recently plugged in an external hard drive and downloaded games onto you might have set it as your main hard drive for steam to download on.

-Go to Steam Settings
-Downloads
-Click Steam Library Folders
-Then Rightclick the directory your main hard drive / SSD is located
-Press Default Folder.
-Done, Download games again.

Hope This Helped, This problem happened to me so I wanted to try and help others with the problem. :2015cookie:

That helped me thank you<3

[Shanghai Syndicate]

Publicado originalmente por Carwyn:

Im not sure if anyone knows whats going on here, but i went to install a game today and it says my disk space is 0mb available, i have about 55 gigs free on my hard drive, and no external, no matter what game i try to install (even a 50mb one like Downwell) it says 0 mb available and it cant install.

FIX - go to steam preferences- dowloads-add library folder- right click and press 'make default folder'

[xcp]

Publicado originalmente por Carwyn:

Im not sure if anyone knows whats going on here, but i went to install a game today and it says my disk space is 0mb available, i have about 55 gigs free on my hard drive, and no external, no matter what game i try to install (even a 50mb one like Downwell) it says 0 mb available and it cant install.

Steam is having mad problems ever since the sale started.. download speeds in certain regions have dropped to atrocious speeds, some games don't let you buy them.. or they do and tells you the sales failed but you still get charged.. now this.. ♥♥♥♥♥ a joke from the "best PC game store..."

[Most Wanted 0xFF]

I had the same issue, the problem can be solved like I did... I have been using for downloading games disk D:\, but I removed it from my computer so it did not work... I fixed it easily

1. I pluged in USB so it generated new disk D:\
2. I went to Steam -> Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library folder
3. I added new folder there on disk D:\
4. Put it as default and click OK
5. I restarted steam

Now I tryed to download a game, I shoved me disk space again, so I moved it there from D:\ to C:\ and it is working now :)

I hope this post is going to help you!
Have a nice day

[Alegis]

Publicado originalmente por Kabbage:

I Found a Fix.

If you recently plugged in an external hard drive and downloaded games onto you might have set it as your main hard drive for steam to download on.

-Go to Steam Settings
-Downloads
-Click Steam Library Folders
-Then Rightclick the directory your main hard drive / SSD is located
-Press Default Folder.
-Done, Download games again.

Hope This Helped, This problem happened to me so I wanted to try and help others with the problem. :2015cookie:

Thanks, worked for me - default folder was the problem.

Steam should make the only remaining folder the default folder

[PIRATA!]

Ok, the culprit is the Stream app that it is not design so good.
Everything is related to the fact that Steam downloads files in its system folder at first, and then it copies them in the destined games folder.

If you have Steam system folder for example in C: and the games stored in D:, files will be stored also under the Steam system folder in C: during the process of downloading, specially when updating an already installed game.

I realised that as my C: drive was literally full after having installed a game and updated another one.

It is important to install Steam also where you plan on having at least extra 20/30gb free for its cache, and constantly delete its download cache after each game installation or update.

Cheers.