what kind of file can i delete in steam folder

[xbhdy]

when steam update or something..it give birth to a lot of trash,they occupied my disk space,i wanna remove some of them,but don't know which one can be deleted,help guys.

[Marble]

You can delete everything in the Steam folder except for the Steam.exe and the Userdata and Steamapps folders. When you run Steam the next time, it will create/download what was missing and your games will not have disappeared.

[xbhdy]

thanx

[Inuk Syooperstar]

Userdata only stores cloud files, right?

[papi]

Even the package folder?

[spoof]

steam will recreate what it needs. as long as you keep the steam.exe it will all come back it just costs a download.

I remember defense grid storing the save game data in the userdata folder and not have cloud enabled on the game.
so nothing is sure.

they enabled cloud 3 years later.

[spoof]

you could also keep the ssfn file with the numbers , than you don't need to do steam guard code again.