Laz.e.rus July 25, 2007 Share Laz.e.rus Member July 25, 2007 Anyone know if you can install steam ( entire valve folder) to anywhere but C:? I have a 30 gig C partition, and a 125 gig E Partition. Seemed fine at the time, but Ive been running into more and more software that HAS to be on C. THe C partition is up to 20 of the 30 gigs. And Valve is taking 10.1 of it! If I caould move that to E:/program files, where most of my progs are, that would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoMamma July 25, 2007 Share YoMamma Member July 25, 2007 (edited) yeah. copy EVERYTHING starting in the "yourname@email.com" folder. Install steam in your F:\ and then paste the folder back inside "steamapps." Keep in mind that steam will make you redownload the games, but they should start at around 80% complete. Edited July 25, 2007 by YoMamma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie July 25, 2007 Share mookie GC Alumni July 25, 2007 http://www.gamrs.co/forums/in...showtopic=27544 Looked at this about a year ago. What I've got going right now is c:/program files/steam/steamapps is softlinked to d:/steamapps, and d:/steamapps/accountname/counter-strike source/cstrike/maps is softlinked to d:/cstrike/maps. Been working just fine for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus July 25, 2007 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member July 25, 2007 Yomamas sounds easy to follow, but a long pain to do. Mookies: Id require step-by-steps. Confused Laz And, Thanks for that guys! There is hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie July 26, 2007 Share mookie GC Alumni July 26, 2007 The link in the other thread still seems to be good; you have to scroll down about a screen to get to the download link on that page. I think the installer was pretty much automatic. To move a directory somewhere and then put a soft link to it is pretty much two steps ((1) move, (2) put a soft link). As an example, moving the screenshots directory to make it less clicking to find my /screenshots on disk. /cstrike on left, where I want to put /screenshots is on the right (happens to be d:/cstrike). Moving /screenshots over. These both happen to be on the same partition, but you will want to hold down shift to save yourself having to delete the old folder. Right-click on /screenshots and drag it back over, popping up a menu for what you want to do. "Junction" is an MS codeword for a soft link. Ta-da! There's now a pseudo-directory here, which the filesystem will know to redirect over there. When HL2 looks for /screenshots, NTFS will just follow the link and HL2 is none the wiser. You should be able to use this to ship out chunks of any program's files that you want onto your larger partition with a few clicks. If you need to undo it, all you do is delete the "fake" folder and copy/move the data back. As far as your programs know, all their data will still be where they thought it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaftiel July 26, 2007 Share shaftiel Member July 26, 2007 Don't do it. The machines get angry when you fool them. Very angry. {whisper} they are listening to us right now... RUN! {whisper} Shaftiel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metallurgic July 26, 2007 Share Metallurgic Member July 26, 2007 Or you can do the easy one step process. Uninstall it, then install it in the new directory you want. Then let it all download overnight. Ok, thats two steps, my bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus July 26, 2007 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member July 26, 2007 cool! Thx guys! (tonights project!) Other project for tonight: Copying over 65 gigs of junk from the other rig to this one..yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus December 12, 2007 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member December 12, 2007 uh oh Mookie: jsut did this. I shift-left-drag SteamApps from C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\ to H:\cstrike\ It moved it no problem Rt-drag back to original. It opened the menu-I selected Junction It created "Link to SteamApps" folder instead of what you have in your picture #4. Being a folder of the exact same name with the green arrow in the folder pic. So, insted of "SteamApps" with a green arrow/folder icon in C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\ , I have "Link to SteamApps" with a standard folder icon. Now it wont let me start steam. ANd when I do, it creates a new folder called "SteamApps" in C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\ that is totally empty. If I rename "Link to SteamApps" to "SteamApps", will that do it? I couldnt even find an image anywhere of the folder with the green arrow that you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus December 12, 2007 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member December 12, 2007 Update: Resolved Renaming the "Link to SteamApps" folder into "SteamApps" did the trick. Steam jsut didnt find the correct folder name so created the new one and wouldve tried to download it all and refill it I supposed if I was connected to the net at the time. Still no cool Green-arrowed icon for me tho But, I jsut freed up 10.2 gigs from my C partition and placed it in my 235 free gigs on the H drive. Yay!!! Thx for the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty December 12, 2007 Share Tek-Almighty Member December 12, 2007 I did this yesterday. The key is, make sure the compy (or HDD) you have it on currently has latest updates. Then, on your new compy or HDD, install steam...but no games. Then, move all the steam data to new location. I moved all of the HL2 stuff (13 GB) by copy and paste... It worked great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus December 13, 2007 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member December 13, 2007 Changing the name of the file worked. I didnt have to reinstall anything. 1-Leftclick+shift then drag rt 2- (wait a while) then Rt-click and drag back left. 3- select "Junction" from resulting popup menu. 4- rename "Link to SteamApps" to "SteamApps" 5-play games with an xtra 10 gigs freed from my primary partition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus December 13, 2007 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member December 13, 2007 Edit: Resolved. Reinstalled and updated avg, set everything to default and re-ran. Its working now. Dunno why, but I wont look a gift horse in the mouth! Uh Oh! AVG anti virus ran this morning as always. Today it only ran for 13 seconds. It got reading errors because it couldnt open any of the system files. Then it got a "cannot open/did not scan" for all of drives c,e,and h. Basically, it couldnt scan anything at all. I have no idea how this new program could cause that, but that is the only thing Ive changed since it ran yesterday... Im running the ntfslink software, and I have the one junction set up from c to h. Any ideas? Heres all the AVG FAQs had to say about it....I guess I can see how if the ntfslink is memory resident, it "could" look like its using ...well ... everything..I jsut dunno.. "640:Test result reports: Cannot open, not checked Some files cannot be opened for checking because they are being permanently used by the Windows operating system or some running application. It's not possible to infect them by a virus as well as to check them. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus August 4, 2008 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member August 4, 2008 Help! Today I : 1- DLd the bioshock demo off steam 2- Updated my sound drivers 3- restarted my PC Now, NTFS link no longer works all of a sudden. Meaning, Steam thinks I have no games at all. I can't just move the file back to C:/ as there isnt even enough room. I tried re-running NTFS link. It just suddenly no longer works, no options to make a new link, etc. I got a bunch of windows updates last night too. Hmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus August 6, 2008 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member August 6, 2008 anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher August 6, 2008 Share Preacher Member August 6, 2008 Maybe try removing the games you don't play. Other than that if the stuff above will not function then I suggest a reinstall of the whole PC, STEAM and everything and make the C: drive the larger of the two. I don't know man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus August 6, 2008 Author Share Laz.e.rus Member August 6, 2008 shrug. A few restarts and a few re-applications of ntfs link, started working again. Weeee Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windex August 6, 2008 Share Windex Member August 6, 2008 the best way to do it is to copy the entire directory un-install the previous one, re-install the basic steam app to the new location and then copy your steamapps folder over to the fresh install and u should be good to go, i just did it and it worked like a charm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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