Help - Steam Client taking loads of space (not the games)

[Clementine]

Hi all

I am having a huge problem with space because Steam is taking up a massive amount of space on my harddrive. I know everyone is going to jump in and say "It's your games!" but don't even, I don't have very many, I've uninstalled most of them, and the ones that are left I have checked through the steam library > Properties > Local Files > Disk Usage and have found they are all pretty low space requirements (mostly 3GB or lower) and mostly they aren't even installed on the drive that has the problem anyway.

I need a solution for why my actual Steam files are taking so much space up in Program Files > Steam I found:
Steamclient64.dll = 17GB
steamclient.dll = 14GB
SteamUI = 11GB
libavcodec-57.dll = 5GB
v8.dll = 5GB
steamwebrtc.dll = 5GB
d3dcompiler_46_64.dll = 4GB
A further 10 files each over 1.5GB = combined 23GB

It totals around 84GB and I'm sure it never used to be like this. How can I clean this up without breaking steam?

Many thanks
Clem

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Clementine:

Steamclient64.dll = 17GB
steamclient.dll = 14GB
SteamUI = 11GB

I checked these, it in thousand kB.
So these items are some megabytes.

[Clementine]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

I checked these, it in thousand kB.
So these items are some megabytes.

Thanks. I think I may have deeper issues with my machine then as mine are showing as thousand MB. I've just uninstalled steam and my harddrive instantly became around 100GB lighter, I'm hoping when I re-install it might come back on as kBs rather than MBs? Don't know yet

[Phantom]

DLL files can never take up a few MB's, much less GB's.

That's an OS related problem.

[Clementine]

Thanks. I reinstalled and it seems to have cleared whatever the problem is. Those files are now showing as thousands of kB and the space on the harddrive did not fill back up. Not sure what had gone wrong with it but seems like the machine was identifying them as the wrong size??

No idea how that can happen but seems sorted for now

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

DLL files can never take up a few MB's,

Obviously they can