Where to find steam backup folder?

[cheesefacenumber93]

Hey everybody, So today I was trying to uninstall and then reinstall battlefront 2 onto my c drive, and I decided to back up the game files onto that same drive, which I then did. I checked to see how much storage space I had after the backup and it had went from 110 gb to 20 gb. It almost acted as if it had just installed the whole game. I now don't have enough room for 90 gb file size on c drive. I also cant find the backup so I can delete it. Most of my data is saved online anyway so the save files don't matter that much. I am trying to download it onto my c drive so I can run the frosty mod manager with it. I originally tried to move the install folder from my original drive to c drive, but it wouldn't let me. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[Cathulhu]

You were asked to select a folder to save the backup in. Did you already forgot which one you selected?

[Papa]

Well, you can do a Windows search for a filename that you know is in the backup folder: such as Battlefront2.exe, or something like that (I just made that name up: I don't know if that's actually the correct name). But you get the idea.

[cheesefacenumber93]

I selected drive c, same drive I tried downloading onto. I'll try searching the filename, thanks.

[Iceira]

Originally posted by cheesefacenumber93:

I selected drive c, same drive I tried downloading onto. I'll try searching the filename, thanks.

backup on same harddisk as install or used OS , seen many person never get this.
ask any pc user , you cant have backup on same pc sooner or later you can get a harddisk failur
most say use external harddisk so you have a remote disk that can restore system.

even a NAS is better then internal disk in a pc, and even MS own backup solution that can use other internal disk is a bad advice, not the first time i havre seen all harddisk crash then pc goes down , okay thats rare, but thats the point here.

i know its just games ( but some games is actual many hours in them. you could say have more then 100 hours in a game play then you might want to backup progress ) and again who will point that out for you.

i guess you have not lost save games enough, or dont care.

biggest external hard drive ( this is backup solution, and you will only get it then system need a restore someday. ) and why steam need a kick in the butt about external disk is not recommended, maybe steam need a kick in the butt ( but i bet they will say dont use usb2.0 and that is slow, but again not my problem, that they mixup diffrent usb ports speed )
google this, this is not about me or my post this is what you need to understand.

[cheesefacenumber93]

Thanks for the advice, I actually ended up finding the backed up save files and ended up deleting them, they were only for single player progress, which dose not matter that much to me. I have my hard drive space back and am currently downloading the game onto my c drive. I have an external drive (where I had the game originally), but could not run mods unless the game was on the system drive (c).