Where did "Scan for installed games" go?

[Willow]

Conan Exiles has a 60gb update, my smallest hard drive has 100gb free but steam insists there's not enough free space to install the update.

No problem, I'm used to this happening with older steam at least, so I try to move the install folder to my most empty drive (1TB free), and steam says it can't do that because the game needs updating. Great, catch 22.

So I install a new game to my empty drive to let steam create a game folder there for sure, and manually move Conan Exiles to the common folder on that drive. In older versions of steam I would then just Games>"Scan for Installed Games" and everything would be gravy. But now steam is still saying that Conan Exiles is installed in the first drive and refuses to look at the other one, even though it can't find the folder on the first drive anymore.

So how do I make Steam look at my other drive? I'd normally just redownload the whole game, but on my current internet just the 60GB update is still going to take weeks.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

The acf file in Steam common is causing this possibly.. Remove the acf in windows drive or the directory you dont want Steam to look place it in the commin of the new Steam folder this game is now.. Then verify game files

[Willow]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

The acf file in Steam common is causing this possibly.. Remove the acf in windows drive or the directory you dont want Steam to look place it in the commin of the new Steam folder this game is now.. Then verify game files

That was it! Thank you!

[crunchyfrog]

Yeah, this is what happens when the acf files don't get moved across.

The old way of moving using Steam Mover (or doing it manually) can still work, but it's also WITHIN Steam too (under Settings > Downloads).

The issue you have is you HAVE NOT got enough space for download. I should explain.

There's TWO things that users often forget about or aren't aware of.

First, you should ALWAYS have no more than 90% of your drive used or steam will start behaving oddly.

Second, when you donwload an update or a game, it requires up to THREE TIMES to the total size, as the games are encrypted and require swap file space and decryption.

SO, having 100GB for a 60GB total download wasn't enough. You should have allowed 180GB whilst that leaving at least 10% of your drive free.

So you can avoid this in future by doing that.