Moving Steam Library (in same drive)

[Oggy246]

Before this point, I installed Steam on C, but put my games in D in a folder called SteamLibrary. Then, my computer was broken and had to reinstall Windows, therefore wiping the C drive. Recently, I reinstalled Steam in the D drive, but it made a new library folder, Games. When I try to select the old folder, it says I cant select it because the Games folder was already initiated as the library folder.

Is there any way for me to play the already installed games on SteamLibrary folder?

[Supafly]

Lets say your old folder is
D:\SteamLibrary
Rename it to
D:\SteamLibrary_old

Create a new folder in the same place and name it
SteamLibrary

so you know have
D:\SteamLibrary empty
and D:\SteamLibrary_old full with old games.

Now that D:\SteamLibrary is empty Steam should allow you to make it a library location.
Load Steam and set Library to
D:\SteamLibrary

Once done exit Steam.

Delete D:\SteamLibrary

Rename D:\SteamLibrary_old back to D:\SteamLibrary

Load Steam. It should auto detect the games are now present. Even if things appear fine Verify the game cache of each game before playing them. Sometimes things need to be reinstalled/altered and Verifying will fix it.

[Oggy246]

Originally posted by Suicidal Monkey:

Lets say your old folder is
D:\SteamLibrary
Rename it to
D:\SteamLibrary_old

Create a new folder in the same place and name it
SteamLibrary

so you know have
D:\SteamLibrary empty
and D:\SteamLibrary_old full with old games.

Now that D:\SteamLibrary is empty Steam should allow you to make it a library location.
Load Steam and set Library to
D:\SteamLibrary

Once done exit Steam.

Delete D:\SteamLibrary

Rename D:\SteamLibrary_old back to D:\SteamLibrary

Load Steam. It should auto detect the games are now present. Even if things appear fine Verify the game cache of each game before playing them. Sometimes things need to be reinstalled/altered and Verifying will fix it.

It does not let the new SteamLibrary be the new library becacuse the folder Games (which is now default library) already exists in the D drive. If this does not happen, I would not make this thread. It seems like Steam only wants 1 library per drive

[Oggy246]

Or maybe should I reinstall steam in C, if so the default library in in C, thus I can appoint the SteamLibrary folder to be the new library?

[Supafly]

Originally posted by ☭「Natcyka」☭:

Or maybe should I reinstall steam in C, if so the default library in in C, thus I can appoint the SteamLibrary folder to be the new library?

Unless you have an SSD or a HDD as C: that is faster than your D: it really won't matter where Steam or your games are installed.

Personally I installed Steam on C:\ but thats cause I have an SSD. I also have a Games folder on C and another on D or E. I move currently playing games to C: and leave those I'm not playing to D.

You can jave as many game folders as you want. All spread on different drives. I have them over 3 drives but I could have them over as many drives or partitions as I want. Just need to make sure you set the default library before you download so you don't have to move the game once downloaded.

[KlingonDragon]

I know this is old but it's the first result on search engines and existing answers don't solve the problem.

I used the fix in this thread. Worked perfectly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/5uqy2u/is_there_any_way_to_set_up_multiple_library/ddw8aua?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Summary:
Find your [Install Location]\Steam\steamapps\libraryfolders.vdf file and add lines for each folder you want to add:
"1" "D:\\SteamLibrary"
"2" "D:\\SteamLibrary2"

https://klingondragon.uk/img/forum/SteamLibrary.png