Cant delete secondary steam folder.

[BadgerBaps]

Okay, so as I said I cant seem to delete my secondary steam folder. Its not on a different hard drive, its just a separate folder for skyrim ( I was told its better to do this for the purpose of modding). However now that I've finished with it, I cant seem to delete it. I've tried deleting it through steam library folder settings but it says "Removing selected steam library folder failed" and if I just delete it though windows explorer it doesn't delete it as an option to install to in steam...

I realise that this might not seem like a big deal, but to us "neat/OCD" types this is huge.

Help me out here brahs.

[Deetchy]

This is definetly odd, since i do not own Skyrim, ive never encountered this.

My best guess is that the game is utilizing the file even after being closed, but thats not very probably, but it does happen.

My SECOND best guess is that the file itself could be in some way corrupted and the computer doesn't want to remove it for some reason.

As i said, no experience, these just seemed like the most probable to my point of view. Have you tried Google?

[BadgerBaps]

Yeah I've tried google, but all that I get is "Cant create folder".

Just to clarify, theres nothing in the folder, I deleted it all.

[Deetchy]

If the folder is completely empty and/or harmless, then the only thing i can think of is that the game itself belives it to be important, so its denying deletion via conventional methods

[sh4rez]

thats really wierd.

[☆ N o c k Y ☆]

really =?

[BadgerBaps]

Meh... I give up already. Ive already given it 3 hours of my life.

Thanks anyway.

[BrettlesNeo]

I just encountered the same issue, and the fix for me was to pause all Steam downloads (even though it was currently downloading to a different Steam library).

Turns out it's the same fix for the error 'Cant create folder'

[Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesth]

Originally posted by The Duke:

I just encountered the same issue, and the fix for me was to pause all Steam downloads (even though it was currently downloading to a different Steam library).

Turns out it's the same fix for the error 'Cant create folder'

This worked for me. Thanks from the future!

edit: if only 2 days in the future...

[Superdupa11]

Originally posted by Badgerbaps:

Okay, so as I said I cant seem to delete my secondary steam folder. Its not on a different hard drive, its just a separate folder for skyrim ( I was told its better to do this for the purpose of modding). However now that I've finished with it, I cant seem to delete it. I've tried deleting it through steam library folder settings but it says "Removing selected steam library folder failed" and if I just delete it though windows explorer it doesn't delete it as an option to install to in steam...

I realise that this might not seem like a big deal, but to us "neat/OCD" types this is huge.

Help me out here brahs.

I just ran into this issue today. I took the name of the folder that had my steam library in it and changed the name of it. Then I created a new blank folder in that same directory with the same name as the secondary folder used to be. From there you should be able to delete out the second library and change back the original folder name if you wish because once the secondary folder is deleted from the list in steam it will no longer search for it.

Hope this helps as it just worked for me!

[Bruhja]

Best thing to do is make a linux live thumb drive boot your computer off of it, and you can delete any locked down folder from your windows volume as linux will ignore the permissions, then keep this thumb drive handy for any time windows is being stupid. Ive used it to remove software with broken installers.

[PowderPig]

Found a solution to this.

Change the drive letter of the hard drive which Steam won't recognise (e.g. from E to F). Restart Steam and the download folder should have disappeared.

I then changed the hard drive letter back to its original, restarted Steam, added the download folder and the issue was rectified.

[3XC4L1B3R]

Originally posted by PowderPig:

Found a solution to this.

Change the drive letter of the hard drive which Steam won't recognise (e.g. from E to F). Restart Steam and the download folder should have disappeared.

I then changed the hard drive letter back to its original, restarted Steam, added the download folder and the issue was rectified.

That fixed mine! Thanks, it was really annoying.

[Gmod]

I didnt get as the same but i need help too. I deleted payday 2 a few months ago and i dont know how to install it back beacuse always when i try it says "An error eccurred while installing PAYDAY 2 (disk write error)" its in disc f which i had a folder that i cant delete in "Steam-Settings-Downloads-Steam library Folders. Please help i dont know what to do.

[jooliano]

"Steam > Settings > Downloads > Clear Download Cache" worked for me.

[Matthias Vance]

Originally posted by jooliano:

"Steam > Settings > Downloads > Clear Download Cache" worked for me.

This worked for me.

In my case I had reformatted my secondary drive and Steam wouldn't download new games, even though I had recreated the folder. This option puts the necessary files back in the right folder, after which everything starts to work again.

So this works in two cases:

1) You want to delete the folder from Steam but can't.
2) You want to keep using the same location but recreated the folder manually.