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Cicolas Aug 15, 2014 @ 11:20pm
Move your entire game library to an external hard drive?
I have 120gb mac air and want to move all my games to an external hard drive how do i do it?
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Winter Aug 15, 2014 @ 11:28pm 
That's pretty easy.

1) Make a folder on your external hard drive for your games.
2) Copy the games to that folder (from your current library folder, if you don't know where it is check your preferences to see the path).
3) After you successfully copy those games over you can delete them from your original hard drive
4) Now you have to tell Steam where your game folders are: Go into Preferences/Downloads/Steam Library Folders/ then add your new folder from your external HD
5) Now when you go to library at first it will look like none of your games are installed. What you need to do is reinstall them, except this time you are going to pick your new hard drive as the location for your files. Steam will realize that there are already files in the folders you chose each and every time you reinstall a game, so it will just confirm them then add whatever else it needs to make them work.
Last edited by Winter; Aug 15, 2014 @ 11:29pm
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Cicolas Aug 15, 2014 @ 11:33pm 
Thanks i've been trying to do it and just couldn't
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Winter Aug 15, 2014 @ 11:39pm 
So did it work?
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Cicolas Aug 15, 2014 @ 11:50pm 
It will take a while for the games to copy so ill tell you later
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Cicolas Aug 16, 2014 @ 12:07am 
It tells me that some data can't be read or written

Originally posted by battlepriestone:
So did it work?
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Winter Aug 16, 2014 @ 12:46am 
oh that sucks.. When you got the new drive did you properly format it?

Sorry I'm not an expert on these matters... The procedure I mentioned earlier worked for me on my mac mini but I have not tried it on my MBA (no space to really play around with steam on there)..

I don't want to mess you up at all so I'm going to hold off on any more advice. I hope you are able to get it worked out.


Last edited by Winter; Aug 16, 2014 @ 12:49am
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Cicolas Aug 16, 2014 @ 12:56am 
ok thanks don't worry
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Chaks243 Feb 16, 2016 @ 5:41pm 
Will my addons be installed as well even if they are not from Steam?
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76561198165622252 Feb 16, 2016 @ 9:58pm 
aw
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KillBoyOG Mar 17, 2019 @ 6:07am 
This was muy helpful, Winter! Even on Mojave. Thanks. :steamhappy:
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Ryan Gosling Mar 18, 2019 @ 10:57am 
Ei toimi vitun ääliö.
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iveX Mar 20, 2019 @ 11:10am 
Originally posted by Winter:
oh that sucks.. When you got the new drive did you properly format it?

Sorry I'm not an expert on these matters... The procedure I mentioned earlier worked for me on my mac mini but I have not tried it on my MBA (no space to really play around with steam on there)..

I don't want to mess you up at all so I'm going to hold off on any more advice. I hope you are able to get it worked out.
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