I want to change SSD but now i cant start Steam anymore. Remove Steam to another SSD?

[SirRantsAlot]

The SSD i wanted to remove has no game data since i removed all games to other SSD within Steam. In the "Common File" there is only two more files "Steam Controller Configs" and "Steamworks Shared".
But in the "steamapps" Folder (Steam/steamapps) there are some more folders like "music" (which has 2,63GB of Music for Stellaris), some empty folders like "download", "shadercache", "sourcemods" and "temp". Then there is a "workshop" folder with a "content" folder with many numerized folders with BIN Data (very few kb) referring to controller mappings as far as i could see.
And within the main folder ("Steam") on this SSD there are many other folders too: appcache, backups, bin, clientui, config, controller_base, depotcache, friends, steamapps (see up), steamui, etc. They all sum up to 2,18GB in 696 folders.
To me it seems it the main installation for steam itself. So can i remove this folder to another SSD?

[SirRantsAlot]

Now i just moved main folder to new SSD, shut down the computer, removed old ssd, start the computer new and started steam. It seems that it worked out. Did i do the right thing or do i have to expect some trouble in the future?

[Lavie]

Hi!
You can check theses instructions if you miss something:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4BD4-4528-6B2E-8327#exist

[SirRantsAlot]

Originally posted by Lavie:

Hi!
You can check theses instructions if you miss something:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4BD4-4528-6B2E-8327#exist

I just removed the main folder to ssd c: and create a new desktop icon and kept the old ssd including steam file just to test. SInce it worked out so easily i decided to delete the old files and removed ssd after formatting it. I hope that was ok.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Explain how did you move Steam?

- Did you use Steam move feature within Steam?

- Did you cut & paste / drag & drop "Steam" folder to the other drive?

- Did you moved only "common" thinking that all you needed, and made that bad mistake, and deleted the folder that has the important app manifest files to informing the client what installed?

[SirRantsAlot]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Explain how did you move Steam?

- Did you use Steam move feature within Steam?

- Did you cut & paste / drag & drop "Steam" folder to the other drive?

- Did you moved only "common" thinking that all you needed, and made that bad mistake, and deleted the folder that has the important app manifest files to informing the client what installed?

I moved games from that old ssd within steam feature to remove to another ssd. After all games removing i just moved the whole file to main ssd (c:) and tested by just disconnecting the old ssd and it works.
Where can i check if i have the app manifest files too? Steam works out fine for now and i already shut the computer down and started it again and started steam and now i play The Hunter without any problems.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by SirRantsAlot:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Explain how did you move Steam?

- Did you use Steam move feature within Steam?

- Did you cut & paste / drag & drop "Steam" folder to the other drive?

- Did you moved only "common" thinking that all you needed, and made that bad mistake, and deleted the folder that has the important app manifest files to informing the client what installed?

I moved games from that old ssd within steam feature to remove to another ssd. After all games removing i just moved the whole file to main ssd (c:) and tested by just disconnecting the old ssd and it works.
Where can i check if i have the app manifest files too? Steam works out fine for now and i already shut the computer down and started it again and started steam and now i play The Hunter without any problems.

The reason app manifest files important is to inform your clients what games are installed that what they are. They're found in Steamapp folder. Steam > Steamapp

If everything fine as it should be then there no problem. So is this about shortcut on Steam not working? If yes you have to replace your shortcut or edit it to target the steam.exe in it new location.

[SirRantsAlot]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by SirRantsAlot:

I moved games from that old ssd within steam feature to remove to another ssd. After all games removing i just moved the whole file to main ssd (c:) and tested by just disconnecting the old ssd and it works.
Where can i check if i have the app manifest files too? Steam works out fine for now and i already shut the computer down and started it again and started steam and now i play The Hunter without any problems.

The reason app manifest files important is to inform your clients what games are installed that what they are. They're found in Steamapp folder. Steam > Steamapp

If everything fine as it should be then there no problem. So is this about shortcut on Steam not working? If yes you have to replace your shortcut or edit it to target the steam.exe in it new location.

The shortcut on desktop refers to old ssd. Changing it to c: worked out.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by SirRantsAlot:

The shortcut on desktop refers to old ssd. Changing it to c: worked out.

This is one of the most overlooked scenarios which is the most common issue that has the easiest fix out there.