Intel_Hydralisk
Supreme [H]ardness
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Hi Guys, I've kind of just lived with this for a while - but wanted to know if there was a better way to handle it.
I bought a SSD and installed windows steam etc. on it. I didn't want to put all of my steam games on there (despite it being 1 TB, it would have quickly run out of space). I also didn't want to redownload everything. So I backed up my old steam games folder and placed it on my old HDD after wiping it.
So... my current flow is for new games is: if I want it on the SSD, I'd install it on there. If I didn't feel like it needed to be on the SSD, I'd install it to my old HDD. For old games... the problem is, it thinks nothing's downloaded/installed. So, for a game that I already have on my old HDD that I backed up - I'll have to tell it to install to the old HDD and at that point it slowly figures out that the files are there and I'm good to go. Not horrible... but not ideal since I can't tell what I already have downloaded etc.
Is there a good way to sweep a directory to see what's been downloaded already and have Steam recognize this? Even if it's not a complete download or if it's missing updates... something that checks for the existence of files.
I also want to eventually get to a spot where I can install to the SSD and when I finish the game, move it to the HDD to sort of archive it. But doing this is a bit clunky right now...
I bought a SSD and installed windows steam etc. on it. I didn't want to put all of my steam games on there (despite it being 1 TB, it would have quickly run out of space). I also didn't want to redownload everything. So I backed up my old steam games folder and placed it on my old HDD after wiping it.
So... my current flow is for new games is: if I want it on the SSD, I'd install it on there. If I didn't feel like it needed to be on the SSD, I'd install it to my old HDD. For old games... the problem is, it thinks nothing's downloaded/installed. So, for a game that I already have on my old HDD that I backed up - I'll have to tell it to install to the old HDD and at that point it slowly figures out that the files are there and I'm good to go. Not horrible... but not ideal since I can't tell what I already have downloaded etc.
Is there a good way to sweep a directory to see what's been downloaded already and have Steam recognize this? Even if it's not a complete download or if it's missing updates... something that checks for the existence of files.
I also want to eventually get to a spot where I can install to the SSD and when I finish the game, move it to the HDD to sort of archive it. But doing this is a bit clunky right now...