How do i move games to another harddrive?

[Ninethousand]

Steam internal tool doesn't work, it just hangs forever, and when i move the game manually, the idiotic steam client says "Folder already exists" when i try to move, "All files ok!" when i verify, but when i click play, it wants to re download an "update" that is as big as the whole game.

How do we have the year 2023, emulators dynamically search your folders for over 1000 games within 3 seconds, and yet VALVE... VALVE is too incompetent to let you simply MOVE FILES???

Do you need some help, Valve? Tell me in what you want to have it done, and i'll write you a script that tells you what folders are inside a folder! Problem solved!

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Are you using the Storage Manager?

[Ogami]

If you copy over the game folder to another Steam library you also need to copy over the appmanifest file for that game.
In the steamapps folder there are a bunch of files called something like "appmanifest_XXXXX.acf" with XXXXX being different numbers.
Basically every installed game has such a file in the library and it tells Steam if a game is installed.
So google for the appmanifest number for the game you want to manually copy, then copy that folder to the other drive AND also copy over the correct appmanifest to the steamapps folder on the other drive. Then delete the files and appmanifest on the original drive.
Restart Steam and the game should appear as installed and ready to play in your library, now on the other Steam library HDD.

[Ninethousand]

The client doesnt know that the game is installed, because it doesnt have the "number", but it knows that the game is installed because "folder already exists"...

HOW is that possible, VALVE??? Do you have your programming done by literal codemonkeys???

I just deleted all my games and have them downloading again...
How pathetic. It's 2023 and Valve is STILL too incompetent to do what devs did in the 90s, possibly earlier...

Edit: Technically, the Comodore 64 was able to give you a list of games that is "installed" on a "drive", so... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ VALVE!!!

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

The client doesnt know that the game is installed, because it doesnt have the "number", but it knows that the game is installed because "folder already exists"...

HOW is that possible, VALVE??? Do you have your programming done by literal codemonkeys???

I just deleted all my games and have them downloading again...
How pathetic. It's 2023 and Valve is STILL too incompetent to do what devs did in the 90s, possibly earlier...

Edit: Technically, the Comodore 64 was able to give you a list of games that is "installed" on a "drive", so... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ VALVE!!!

Steam > Settings > Storage

That's the Storage Manager that does show you exactly that.

[Ninethousand]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Storage Manager!

Try reading before posting.

[-=HuggyBear=-]

You can also open the acf files to see which number is which game.
It s all in the first lines

"AppState"
{
"appid" "674020"
"universe" "1"
"LauncherPath" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\steam.exe"
"name" "World War 3"
"StateFlags" "4"
"installdir" "World War 3"

[Ninethousand]

I wanted to MOVE games between harddrives, not code my own game...

Thank you, but this is beyond pathetic from Valve.

It's like 1 million years after the comodore 64 and valve is too incompetent to READ A DIRECTORY!!! I was able to do that when i was literally 2 years old!... L Shift O, 2 4 2, Comma eight return!

How is it possible that literally everyone at Valve is stupider than me when i was 2?

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by GeoLynx:

You can also open the acf files to see which number is which game.

The ID number is in the URL of each game's store page.

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

Steam internal tool doesn't work, it just hangs forever, and when i move the game manually, the idiotic steam client says "Folder already exists" when i try to move, "All files ok!" when i verify, but when i click play, it wants to re download an "update" that is as big as the whole game.

How do we have the year 2023, emulators dynamically search your folders for over 1000 games within 3 seconds, and yet VALVE... VALVE is too incompetent to let you simply MOVE FILES???

Do you need some help, Valve? Tell me in what you want to have it done, and i'll write you a script that tells you what folders are inside a folder! Problem solved!

Sounds like another issue created by the new UI. Contact and report it to Official Steam Support so they can add it to the pile of things they have to fix in the new UI disaster. Follow these instructions and use the old UI.