How To Move Steam Games (Symlinks)

How To Move Steam Games (Symlinks)

Enter this in the command line: mklink /J "Name of Steam folder you are creating here" "Name of folder where Steam files are here"

In this video I give a full tutorial on how to move a Steam game from one hard drive to another. You may want to do this for several reasons, perhaps because you are out of space on your main HDD, you want to save space on your SSD or you want to install Steam games on an external hard drive. The method I use for Windows Vista and Windows 7 is called Symlinks or Symbolic Links.

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• windows 7

[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.

[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.

[FlossBandit]

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

[bennytobe]

haaay guise!!

[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.

[P7a2r6k5e2r5]

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

[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