steam user data too big

[Ayam mati]

hi i wanna ask why my steam user data is 18+ gb in drive C. i always install my games in drive D but why is the user data so big??

[nullable]

Well when you browser the files, what's using all that space?

I think by default updates and stuff may still run through C: by default if that's where Steam is installed. So it could be temp files, or other things. Ultimately the best way to be sure what data is on YOUR drive is to look at the data and see what it is.

[ReBoot]

Get a copy of TreeSize & run it

[Ayam mati]

Originally posted by nullable:

Well when you browser the files, what's using all that space?

I think by default updates and stuff may still run through C: by default if that's where Steam is installed. So it could be temp files, or other things. Ultimately the best way to be sure what data is on YOUR drive is to look at the data and see what it is.

All i see is CDN.BIN,TMP.BIN and SYNC.BIN

[nullable]

And?

How big are those files? And when you researched them what's the consensus on managing them?

It's your system, you admin it. Sometimes that means doing a bit of work to understand details of what you're looking at. Welcome to PC gaming.

[Ayam mati]

Originally posted by nullable:

And?

How big are those files? And when you researched them what's the consensus on managing them?

It's your system, you admin it. Sometimes that means doing a bit of work to understand details of what you're looking at. Welcome to PC gaming.

Alright already know what is it. Its a save files of my nba 2k games

[Professional Noob]

Originally posted by Your mom:

hi i wanna ask why my steam user data is 18+ gb in drive C. i always install my games in drive D but why is the user data so big??

same problem. my steam was installed in drive D: and i have a large file CDN.BIN and TMP.BIN on Drive C: steam folder.

[Professional Noob]

Originally posted by Your mom:

Originally posted by nullable:

And?

How big are those files? And when you researched them what's the consensus on managing them?

It's your system, you admin it. Sometimes that means doing a bit of work to understand details of what you're looking at. Welcome to PC gaming.

Alright already know what is it. Its a save files of my nba 2k games

is it safe to delete that folder? or how should i move that folder in drive D:?

[Ayam mati]

Originally posted by Professional Noob:

Originally posted by Your mom:

Alright already know what is it. Its a save files of my nba 2k games

is it safe to delete that folder? or how should i move that folder in drive D:?

if you dont play 2k anymore just delete the files

[Cinemax]

Apparently this has been an issue with these games for at least 10 years (10 iterations). Hilarious. CDN.bin is likely the cache of the content delivery network, ex all that 1 time mtx to sell you haircuts and other stupid ♥♥♥♥. Strauss Zelnick is a clown.

[Iceira]

OP might had a steam crash and game library is there at c-drev, because i can't get steam over 5gb, and i doubt clear dl cache and delete web browser user data can fix rest of the many GB she claim steam take.

And reboot is right use treesize, and try locate them folder that eat up space.if you dont know steam ways and where thing is, then treesize is best to locate lost space in a folder.

could also be a a copy mistake or moved content, to a unknow folder in the past, many pc user know this, but for the most they notice then it happend , but disk copy mistake can go very fast today, even that can happend, but most will think not going to happend for me, but 18gb is seen as small size, this is not 10years ago where copy things took abit longer.

gl with it OP.