7gb occupied for a 30mb update

[Uroc327]

Sorry if this question has been asked before, I didn't find anything helpful though.

Steam want's to update a few games (PAYDAY 2, CoH and TF2 to be specific). For the 30mb CoH update it occupies 7gb of my hard disk. Similar proportions for PAYDAY 2 and TF2.
This is an issue, because I only have few gigs left on my disk, which makes windows complain all the time anyways. Also I am completely unable to download the 1gb update for PAYDAY 2, as my free space (~9gb) is not enough!

Is there any possibility/way to prevent this?

[muckymucks]

You'll probably need to uninstall a game or two....

[Uroc327]

Well... That's not very satisfying: Unnstall a game to download 30mb with 9gb of free space!

[Daggett Doofus]

similarly.

[Petrus]

nie

[Player 1]

Sounds like your Steam install is corrupted

[Uroc327]

corrupted in what way?

[ KARR™]

The update cycle goes like this:-

Publisher pushes game update to steam
Your client picks up an update is needed
Your client copies the files that need to be patches to another folder (temp), if the file being patched is 3Gb, even if the patch for it is 10Mb, it needs space to copy that 3Gb.
The files are then patched in the temp folder
The files are then copied BACK into the main game folder.

So, you need space for it to copy the files that are being updated to another location.

[Uroc327]

Ooh... I see.
Is there any way to do this patching staged (not patching everything at once but download all patches and patch files one after another to save space)?

[Satoru]

Tr patching is staged because a common complaint before was that downloading an update made the game unplayable until it finished

By staging the updated files this isn't an issue

[Satoru]

Btw Payday2 needs 20 GB to update. If you don't have the space delete the game and redownload it