Trouble moving large game from HDD to SSD

[sprucehill]

I have a 250 gig SSD and a 1TB HDD, I'm trying to move Rainbow Six Siege to my SSD so it will load a bit faster. I started by using a tool called Steam Mover, which moved the game from my common folder on my HDD to my common on my SSD, which worked fine. I then went to uninstall it on steam so I could install it again on my SSD, and it would just verify the files instead of redownloading it. Everything went fine.

The problem is, the game is already technically ON my SSD and is taking up so much space that when I go to "install" it on steam, steam tells me that there isn't enough space on my drive, and I can't clear enough space for this message to go away. I COULD clear enough space to get 67 gigs free (in terms of what steam believes) on my SSD, but the Siege file requires 75 gigs.

Does anyone know a solution to this? Tell me if I explained it poorly or if you need more details. I assume I can always just move it back to my HDD if this doesn't work, but it would reealllyyy help to have it on an SSD. Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Big Boom Boom]

Why did you use some random app to move? Right click on the game in library, there's an option to move.

[sprucehill]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

Why did you use some random app to move? Right click on the game in library, there's an option to move.

I had used Steam Mover before and it worked fine because it wasn't such a large file. I also don't see the option to move it

[Big Boom Boom]

Properties -> Local Files -> move.

And why Apps, copy pasta is all you need.

[sprucehill]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

Properties -> Local Files -> move.

Well the option wasn't there because the game isn't installed on steam right now, lol. I'll move it back to my HDD, THEN try to move it using steam. If this works, thank you! If it doesn't work, still thank you for the suggestion.

[tacoshy]

you can aslo just manually copy paste the steamapps folder containing the game and the appmanifest.acf manually ore after copy pastign steamapps folder by just clicking on installing which takes then a second logner as it doesnt really need to install.


Never use 3rd party program to do something you can easily do yourself. This just makes your PC slow and they dont get things faster done.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If it's not installed but you have the game files; then just put the whole game in
C:\.. Steam\Steamapps\Common
Then launch Steam Client and click Install and select C Drive
Wait for files to be seen and verified; and you're done.

[sprucehill]

Originally posted by tacoshy:

you can aslo just manually copy paste the steamapps folder containing the game and the appmanifest.acf manually ore after copy pastign steamapps folder by just clicking on installing which takes then a second logner as it doesnt really need to install.


Never use 3rd party program to do something you can easily do yourself. This just makes your PC slow and they dont get things faster done.

The first suggestion worked fine, though I appreciate the reply and advice.

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

If it's not installed but you have the game files; then just put the whole game in
C:\.. Steam\Steamapps\Common
Then launch Steam Client and click Install and select C Drive
Wait for files to be seen and verified; and you're done.

That was the issue. The files were on the C drive, and they were taking up 75 gigs of the storage so I only had about 30 gigs left, and when I went to "install" and verify the files on steam, steam first assumes that you're going to download and THEN it finds out that you already have existing files. So because I had less than 75 gigs of free space on my SSD, steam wouldn't allow the download process to even start.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then yea use the Move option in the game properties.
Steam has had this for over a year now.