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Also don't assume it will backup your saves.
The standard procedure is to backup your mods and re-insert them into the correct area.
For your save-games it's a somewhat different ball-game.
I'll explain it though.
[1] Some games support Steam cloud.
Those games and their files are here...
[2} Some games do NOT support Steam Cloud and their save-games appear in other places.
Some save-games files will appear in...
Other games may utilize your documents folder.
Use https://www.gamesave-manager.com/ to help with saves that don't sync to cloud.
Anyway,... Now I have three more questions, one I might be able to confirm on my own but for the sake of saving time I will ask here, and another that I have no idea about.
First off, if I have any non-Steam games placed in my Steam library, will I be able to back them up along with my Steam games or will I need to back them up separately?
And second, if there is a game in my Steam library that is currently uninstalled (like ARK - for some reason it uninstalled itself since my last visit), will it always be in my Steam library regardless as long as I use the Steam app on this computer? If not, and I need to install it on another PC, how will I get it put into my library so that I can re-install it?
Finally, I just realized how massive some of my games are or have become. I know Steam requires a certain file system in order to allow games to be installed separately and that some file systems like FAT-something will not be able to store them. In general, what sort of medium (disks, flash drives, etc.) should I use to store those games? I am going to need to do this sooner or later so I should get started now with my bigger games.
Thanks for reading, and thanks again for your comments.
I have a laptop that i install games but since i don't have much storage, to install a big game i have to uninstall the other big game (usually these games being gtaV on epic games and payday2 on steam)
And while i'm reinstalling payday2 i noticed that steam already had all my 23 script mods (which i downloaded from third party websites like modworkshop or nexusmods, but i don't see my override assets mods, like "no dirt camera")
So while steam CAN backup your mods, i wouldn't recommend you to trust 100% on that backup, cause steam may not backup mods that override assets, and i have already uninstalled payday2 in the past and my mods (same script mods) weren't backed up that time, and the time before it i think they were backed up (since i don't remember having a problem with that so it isn't a "new feature").
It may be because of the way i uninstalled the game (deleting the folder where the game is), but still, always make a backup of your mods just to be safe.
And when you uninstall a game, don't be a dumbass like me!
Go to steam -> library -> right click the game you want to uninstall -> manage -> uninstall
instead of just deleting the folder where it is installed.
Same to your windows programs, so windows know you actually don't want them and wont keep them in your windows start menu.
Late post i know, but if people want to know, there it is
EDIT: Daumn, i think it isnt actually, what seems to happen is when steam uninstall the game, it doesn't purge all files. So maybe what happened is my mods were still there because steam noticed they weren't part of the original game, so there wasnt a need to delete them.
But when i needed to reinstall windows, that was the time my mods weren't anywhere i could find. Because steam never backed them up
That makes sense why my override mods disappeared, because they were in the same folder steam downloads all the game assets.
Feel free to ask this on the skryim form in the old farts coffee shop. They will tell you same thing.
Just noticed it now when i looked at my steam common and found team fortress2 folder (uninstalled game) but it had some files, which made me think that not all files are deleted when you uninstall the game