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« on: July 07, 2011, 02:25:12 AM » |
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Went to move my Steam folder from a dodgy drive onto another and for whatever reason all my games are uninstalled. Took me 3 hours as well to transfer because of this piece of shit Spinpoint drive I bought....
F M L !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's safe to say I'll be RMAing this back to ebuyer pronto, 33mb/s for a SATAII drive transfer speed it a joke. Pile of wank.
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2011, 07:41:36 AM » |
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When you move the folder you have to hit Verify Game Cache.
It takes a wee bit, but not as long as downloading everything again.
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2011, 08:35:17 AM » |
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I've never reinstalled Steam, I don't use Desktop shortcuts, so I just move the folder around...
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Condor Baggins
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2011, 11:09:01 AM » |
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That's not the part that's really getting to me, it's the painfully slow transfer rate when copying stuff to that particular drive. I think it's a bad one. Surely I should be getting more than 29-33mb/s throughput? edit** It won't let me verify the game cache, it would seem the games have been completely wiped. One more thing, it always prompts me for a key whenever I start Steam up because apparently I'm singing in on a different computer....wtf?  |
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« Last Edit: July 07, 2011, 12:03:19 PM by Condor »
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2011, 03:28:03 PM » |
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You have to log out of Steam before you move the stuff.
All this is in the Steam FAQ's.
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2011, 04:07:20 PM » |
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I've followed the steam instructions.
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2011, 12:26:17 PM » |
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The HDD was knackered after all, ebuyer RMA'd it back and they sent me a new replacement. 60mb/s transfer rate now which is much more like it.  |
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« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2011, 09:23:50 AM » |
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Hmmm, am I going to have the same trouble?
Recently did a fresh OS install onto my WD Black and thought that I could just copy over my steam folder (ie games) onto the new HDD after installing Steam itself.
Please tell me that would work?
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« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2011, 11:13:37 AM » |
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To be honest, if it's all installed on the same place...
Install steam.
Close steam
Copy your old steam over the top of the new steam.
Should just work. As I say, I never install Steam as such. My steam directory lives on the RAID and when I reinstall I just recreate shortcuts, and on first run Steam installs the required service for Windows 7. You might need to run the first time after reinstall 'As Administrator' (on the old right click menus).
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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2011, 09:06:00 AM » |
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Surely with certain games the registry key links to a specific folder location, so if you move the location somewhere else, only verifying via steam makes it all correct....  I'd imagine overtime theres going to a build up of buggered registry keys in windows isnt there? Or the games showing in your Programs and features will be invalid/corrupt. I always move steam the same way as Woosty has mentioned, but maybe I'm just being a perfectionist by keeping everything A1. |
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« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2011, 11:20:38 AM » |
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I'll have a move before the year is out since the 150GB Steam partition is almost full. |
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« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2011, 11:53:26 AM » |
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I keep mine on an S:/ drive, so if ever I replace the drive itself. As long as I assign the replacement drive as the S letter, then it'll be a hassle free/easy transition. The only time its a hassle, would be moving a Steam folder off of a C:/ drive... At some point I'd like to swap my S drive to a SSD. But PC's are way down my list of money priorities for now.
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« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2011, 03:11:42 PM » |
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Steam games don't hit the registry, unless run... so it living on D: all the time... then a new run triggers the new install process as it's not been found there after a fresh install. Works for the games, works for steam. Never had a problem with it and been using Steam since it came out....I've installed it once!! The first time!
My steam install is on D: also. Steam has never needed the registry and it all creates it all on first run anyway... it's an unnecessary faf.
I'd like to put steam on a SSD, but my steam folder is currently outpacing reasonable SSD prices... it's 267gb atm =[
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« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2011, 04:24:53 PM » |
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For me I uninstall steam, then reinstall on drive and drop the folder of contents on top. So probably not doing it much different from yourself anyway. But I just feel happier having all the games removed from the old install directory first. Whichever way floats our boats  I thought SSD's might be dropping in price by now, but doesnt seem like it. In fact if anything they appear to have gone up since I bought mine  |
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« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2011, 05:23:59 PM » |
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I´ve moved my Steam directory a dozen times with zero problems.
It just works!
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