How To Move Steam Games (Symlinks)

[FlossBandit]

well done sir. i hate installing trashy little programs for stuff like this.

[bennytobe]

haaay guise!!

[P7a2r6k5e2r5]

can you copy it, or when you do this does it completely go off of one computer and to the next one?

[MrSniperKid101]

@P7a2r6k5e2r5 you cant copy it because steam only allows games to be downloaded on you C drive, so you need to use MK link to show steam where the game folder is.

[AndreeasGameplay]

Are all*

[AndreeasGameplay]

Are reset if i move my games? Please reply

[TheCoxjohn]

It says, when i try to launch it in steam, this game is currently unavailable how do i make so i can launch it from steam

[superstevo189]

you have a steam folder in your I drive already,did u just make a folder called steam or....?

[elephantman2222]

several questions: I want to move the whole "steamapps" folder and link it. Once I do this, I can create links within that linked folder back onto the solid state drive (for the games which only truly need the boost). Now: when I download new games on Steam, will they download to the linked external, or will the download to the SSD, since Steam is installed on the SSD? Second question:Does the SSD actually register that the space is used, or will I get warnings that it is full when its not?

[xXproskIls]

Not all my games is in the common folder

[CrimsonxxKitten]

Thanks this helped a lot!!

[MrAcce71]

MKLINK OR NKLINK??

[AnimatedKookie]

how do you do this on xp?



[Gamesthengirls69]

hey i created the junction and all was there, except when I tried to play it said error. im re downnloading and i dont have an issue with that, but im just wondering why i couldnt play if the junction was created.

[MrIrishDazzaChannel]

I tried it, it worked with killing floor but when i tried it with a game with spaces in its name and it wont! any one o what to do?

[Tele3champion]

@MrIrishDazzaChannel yes, then you have to put " at the beginning and at the end

[Scubasteve52655]

Ok so I just bought an SSD and installed skyrim and Assassins creed via steam. So by using this method I can move those 2 games to my SSD and still launch them through steam? and they will be playing off my SSD and not the HDD they originally installed on? Oh and when I rename the file like say I rename skyrim to "this isnt skyrim" I delete that file after right? B/c when I tried this method for another game the renamed file still had all its shit I'm doing this to diminish load times etc... :D

[goozemaster69]

i have an ssd i just bought 60 gb but all my steam shit is on my old hdd as well as all my other save files for like the 30 games i have (not all of them use steam) how do i move these save files and also get the steam games to work on my ssd even though they are not technically on it since my ssd has no space for my steam games( i wanne use the ssd for my operating system)

[IKroINiiIKz]

do i delete the game file i just moved from steam into my external?

[computerinternetcom]

Thanks it worked!!!

[AndreeasGameplay]

Thank you!

[markcoolio1231]

COULD YOU DO ONE FOR MACS????

[FallenRaee]

Yeh, but what about those NCF and GFC files in your steamapps folder in your C drive, they still take up space? Plus, couldn't you do this technique to the whole steamapps folder, then games would go directly to your other drive?

And also, if my game saves files were on my SSD would saving be quicker? because currently mine are saved on my D drive (Not my SSD)

[MenWithHats88]

Thanks man. Clear, concise, well-enunciated.

[MrBlob372B]

not working

[theheavysoldier]

Oh this as exactly what i was looking for thanks dude

[emmabee11]

Im so frustrated that XP is pretty much dissapearing from the picture and everyones being forced to buy vista or windows 7 as they have limited directx to only windows 7 and vista now plus they just keep updating too fast. I cant even afford windows 7 so i'm stuck with windows XP.

[PMChr97]

hahaha, was gonna look this up and I was like: "this loks like a good video" and it was you duncan! so funny. long time subscriber dude :P

[RudyGames]

Hi, I got a question: Can I also do this with cache files (Half-Life 2, Portal 2, TF2 ect), because it is otherwise still taking space...

[nazizombiekiller253]

this may be a stupid question but can i do this with the whole steam folder?

[mymidmorningnap]

I want to move alien swarm, but it has a space in its name. when i take the space out it doesn't work but leaving it in fails too. is there a solution?

[ninjakittygaming]

can I do this with my whole common folder or do i need to each game indevigualy?

[LetsTalkNostalgia]

when i try to copy it says you need administrators permission and it won't let me do it, please help

[EFmw2clan]

Awesome tutorial ! You talk a little bit fast but it worked flawlessly. :)

[MBussard45]

you sound like junkyard

[RyanORLY]

thanks man!

[GagleKas]

better and faster: install steam with games with OS and programs in a separate ssd.

[scanpiXx]

damn, only 1 of my steam games is in the common chase, the rest are in \Steam\steamapps\ (steam username). now what to do? drag n drop to common instead or?

[RyanORLY]

@scanpiXx i had the same thing nah just do what this guy did except instead of common do the location its in for yourself, not that hard.

[TBKclanHD]

That's a forward slash, not a backslash... Just saying =P

[AQWMalkoir]

I tried to transfer Tf2. I did what you said and it told me a junction was created, and it worker. So I deleted Tf2 off the C drive, however whenever I reopen Tf2 It keeps coming back onto the C drive. Why? Can I fix this?

[duncan33303]

@arvin1212 That's what I show in the video, in the command line.

[duncan33303]

@arvin1212 Just copy over whatever game you want to the other hard drive, rename the original file and then make the symlink. After you make sure it worked properly you can feel free to delete the game off your main drive.

[Viclavik]

@duncan33303 after I successfully made the symlink as you call it, I deleted the game from its original folder, I then logged in to steam and lo and behold my game said it was not installed! what did I do wrong? the Symlink worked after I realized both the original drive and target drive had to be in quotations and I also had to create a steam file on the new drive to put the game in. Now if I install the game it will just reappear in the old drive I just removed it from thus undoing my labor!

[sasukebattle100]

Thx man my C drive was onlu 90 GB but my D drive was 500 GB, you saved my pc!

[Fay7666]

Why don't you just put Create Shortcut, and put it in the C drive (would it work)

[Somone77]

@Fay7666 Because all Steam programs are ran by Steam itself. If you look at a Steam shortcut on your desktop, you will see it runs something like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 400

The '-applaunch 400' part is called a parameter. This tells steam that you want to launch the steam program with the ID of 400. Each Steam program has its own ID and Steam knows where it needs to look for it. If you would just take those files away, steam would not be able to launch the game

[Fay7666]

@Somone77 Yes, but what we did here is to make Steam think that the folder is stil there when what it is there is an advenced wormhole to another location, but couldnt we just put "Create Shortcut" and then the new route

[Somone77]

@Fay7666 No because there is no place in Steam to define the new location, it will always look to the same spot. Shortcuts can not be used to redirect a program looking for files to a whole new directory. And if you mean a new shortcut for the game, that would only work for a select few games on steam. You wouldn't be able to do that with a Valve game, for instance, as they don't have specific .exe's that you can run to start the game, they need to be ran from Steam.

[Fay7666]

@Somone77 Hte point is that what we're doing here is an Anvanced Shortcut, can't we just put create shortcut and place it there

[FrylizFtw]

when I did the command thing. I got an error, ''error in the syntax of the command''?

is there any easier way to move a game from steam to a external Harddrive? can't I just drag it over :S

[duncan33303]

@FrylizFtw Just make sure you have quotation marks around the names of the folders.

[0ReM0RsE0]

Steam doesn't only allow you to only install the steam games on whatever drive Windows is installed on, it installs it on the Drive/Partition Steam is installed in.

[94valeRa01]

Cant you just make a shortcut ?

[TechBoywii]

@94valeRa01 no, that's different.

[infinitypark003]

@duncan33303 Can't you use the Backup feature in Steam or something?

[CrysisLTU2]

Woaw, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is going to get handy soon!

[WarpGam1ng]

Counter strikes better than CoD

[microgamestation]

@WarpGam1ng To true.

[pizzafootbal]

Nice tutorial, this should be usefull, of course I will be on a Mac :D

[ThePuffo98]

What's steam games?

[macacossuper]

isnt easier to simply create a shortcut of the folder in the steam folder?

[viewer713]

can't you just copy and paste?

[duncan33303]

@viewer713 No. If you do that Steam will just not see the files in the right place and you'll have to redownload.

[loldudeable]

OR... go on steam and hit "Backup and restore games".  Follow the instructions like a normal person and all is well

[froggle61]

duncan thank you so much i have been trying to play games on steam and it just keeps crashing over and over and with my internet connection it takes like 20 minuits just to connect to steam only to have it crash again.

[duncan33303]

@froggle61 Sure thing.

[ZENXMETAL]

hay my laptop keeps turning off if youtube is on and or when i am playing a game. when i have my charger plugged into it what is the problem. it does not turn off when i don't have it plugged in also it is not the ac adapter i just got a new one also a new hard drive help please,

[techbuff363]

You should do a video showing your pcs performance.

[212NATH]

You should do videos on minecraft...

[ExGxSMiiTHYZz]

i might sound retarded but im not a pc gamer im a console player, what is steam..?

[OChrisJonesO]

@ExGxSMiiTHYZz it's like the "XBox LIVE" of PC Gaming. Steam is a game marketplace, and a universal friends system type of thing.

[mariomj71099]

@ExGxSMiiTHYZz Steam is software. You can download games from it, you can download steam for free but games cost you. Demos are free. It's made by Valve, people who made Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Team Fortress and all other cool games.

[QutaHunter]

Interesting. Always something new going down at Mr. Sub... I mean DUNCAN!

[MechaSonicHD]

Does this only work for Visa/7?

[duncan33303]

@MechaSonicHD Yes. For XP you can do this as well but you need to use a program, just Google creating a symlink in Windows XP.

[thehostler0]

You can set the installation path of steam at the installation wizzard. Then when u install a game it will be installed on the hdd you installed steam on. Correct me if im wrong though!

[duncan33303]

@thehostler0 No, Steam only installs games in the directory Steam is installed in. You have to use this to be able to install games anywhere else.

[adi1133]

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