File download location on HDD instead of SSD

[Aleckzenndar]

I realised that my games were taking an EXCESSIVE time to update. So I tried to get to the bottom of it. My System is installed on an SSD (500Gb) and I have a slave HDD (1Tb) Steam is obviously installed on the SSD, but most of my games are on the HDD. Games that take more juice, I install on the SSD. So naturally, I expect updates to these ones to be very rapid. But no, they aren't. I deactivated one drive file sync, which helped some. Then I deactivated my Virus protection (which I'm not happy about having to do) It also helped some. But even with nothing else really taking any disk usage, I still didn't understand.
Until I did.
Steam is using my HDD for downloading, and then installs on my SSD. It does this even if there is enough space in the C:/.../steamapps/downloading/ folder. I looked into the download settings and there doesn't seem to be a place I can force it to use the C: drive for downloading.
I'm very disappointed.
BTW, I did follow the troubleshooting guide for slow downloads.

TL;DR Steam game updates use the HDD folder for Downloading instead of the available SSD

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Aleckzenndar:

I realised that my games were taking an EXCESSIVE time to update. So I tried to get to the bottom of it. My System is installed on an SSD (500Gb) and I have a slave HDD (1Tb) Steam is obviously installed on the SSD, but most of my games are on the HDD. Games that take more juice, I install on the SSD. So naturally, I expect updates to these ones to be very rapid. But no, they aren't. I deactivated one drive file sync, which helped some. Then I deactivated my Virus protection (which I'm not happy about having to do) It also helped some. But even with nothing else really taking any disk usage, I still didn't understand.
Until I did.
Steam is using my HDD for downloading, and then installs on my SSD. It does this even if there is enough space in the C:/.../steamapps/downloading/ folder. I looked into the download settings and there doesn't seem to be a place I can force it to use the C: drive for downloading.
I'm very disappointed.
BTW, I did follow the troubleshooting guide for slow downloads.

TL;DR Steam game updates use the HDD folder for Downloading instead of the available SSD

reinstall Steam on your SSD, of course the temp downloads folder will be wherever the Steam program is located

[Aleckzenndar]

I reinstalled it. Work well for a game that I install on C: drive. But when I updated a game on D: , it reverted back to downloading on D:

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Aleckzenndar:

I reinstalled it. Work well for a game that I install on C: drive. But when I updated a game on D: , it reverted back to downloading on D:

Err, if you're updating a game on your D drive, then doesn't it make sense to have all the files be downloaded to D drive then transferred over so it doesn't have to do cloning? i see what you're saying now but that's pretty standard isn't it?

[Aleckzenndar]

Actually that was not what I was saying. but it did fix itself, for now. But I reinstalled in the past and the same issue came up not very long after. It appears to get hung up on downloading only on the HDD for whatever reason. I'm guessing when my SSD gets full and I need to empty it a little, it takes for granted that it will permanently be full, so never reverts back to using the SSD