freddeh Jun 22, 2016 @ 7:57pm
Completely cancel a download?
I installed CS:GO (again) yesterday and up until now it was doing alright. I accidentally restarted my pc, and forgot to mount my external hard drive, which has csgo on it. I clicked "Play" and now the game is downloading AGAIN, and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Any solution?

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ARuarkGuy Jun 22, 2016 @ 8:02pm 
This solution works for every game on Steam: Go to your library, right click on the game you're downloading and want to remove and select "Delete local content". That's all. You don't need to stop or restart Steam this way.
freddeh Jun 22, 2016 @ 8:03pm 
Much appreciated. I was afraid it would delete my original install, but it didn't. Thanks!
LΞGΞND • May 24, 2021 @ 5:38pm 
For those who copied game files in from another location, but had already started an actual download: in your games list, right click -> "Manage" -> "Uninstall".

It didn't delete my files I had copied over into steamapps after having started its download. It just cancelled the download. I then proceeded to click "install", where it started discovering existing files instead of starting new download.

It did delete *some* small files after starting install though. Then when finished installing/discovering files, it had an update. I performed update, download progress was basically full when starting update, so it only took a few seconds for the update to finish.
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Pez Player Dec 28, 2022 @ 5:11pm 
Uninstall from the downloads list removes the entire game, not just the extra download data..
The tip about clearing anything in the 'downloading' folder did not help for me either, it was empty, from here: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/618459405709187319/
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