I am going to be moving my OS drive to an SSD (Samsung 830) and I have my steam folder on my game drive(different drive), do I have still have to backup my games when I do the switch over?
I am going to be moving my OS drive to an SSD (Samsung 830) and I have my steam folder on my game drive(different drive), do I have still have to backup my games when I do the switch over?
No. You can just reinstall Steam to the same folder or just run steam.exe and it will work fine.Originally Posted by jaded318
Last edited by ollip; 02-26-2012 at 08:46 AM.
You can also just delete the "ClientRegistry.blob" file in the steam folder and just run it in the new location and it will work like nothing has changed. That is how I usually do it
Awesome thanks.
actually just copy steam.exe and /steamapps/, then copy it over to where you want the new steam folder you want, then just run steam.exe
Be careful though, lots of games put your save files into your My Documents folder, not into the Steam files. Lost all my Skyrim saves that way. [no]
Symbolic links into dropbox solve that ez.
Wait. Skyrim is a steam cloud game, how did you lose your saves?
No it's not, if you run it on a second machine none of your saves are on cloud, they are all local. My save folder is 1.2gb and you should find it in C:\Users\(you)\Documents\MyGames\Skyrim
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You may have a write error when you do your reinstall, as the Steam folder is protected. To get around it you can just make install a new steam folder beside the old one and copy everything (well at least the big folders) into it. That way you won't have to go through the hardship of working out how to inherit a folder and finding out it didn't work.
Last edited by DhinShin; 02-27-2012 at 05:20 PM.
With save files I go with SugarSync. It's a bit less hassle as you don't need to gimmick with links.
Last edited by ollip; 02-27-2012 at 06:20 PM.
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