Soldato
arent the mods in the workshop folder with their own manifest files?
Associate
They are, which is why they had to be downloaded (because I didn't copy them over).
(sorry)
Soldato
Just don't do what I've just done. Built my new system (see sig) and was pretty sure I'd backed up my steamapps/common folder. Just reinstalled steam and plugged my portable HDD in to drag the folder across to find I hadn't backed it up at all. DOH!
Thankfully I did back up the relevant folders for my EVE UI though, so that's a good thing.
Thankfully I did back up the relevant folders for my EVE UI though, so that's a good thing.
Soldato
I always found the easiest way is to just copy the whole steam folder.
Then when you want to run it on the target computer you can just create a desktop shortcut pointing to the steam.exe
Its as simple as that, works as a back up, works for fresh installs or if you want to run it on a different computer.
Then when you want to run it on the target computer you can just create a desktop shortcut pointing to the steam.exe
Its as simple as that, works as a back up, works for fresh installs or if you want to run it on a different computer.
Soldato
Buy separate drives as suggested. I've a 5TB mechanical drive and a 1TB SSD purely dedicated for games. I've got 90% of my library installed from multiple gaming platforms and rarely even play any of them. The only BAD side to this is, if you're a muppet like me and always forget to disable auto updates... You're gonna have a bad time when you open steam lol.
I still need to go through the hundreds of games I've got installed to disable updates as everytime I open Steam, I get 30 mins of nothing but game updates. It's driving me up the wall.
I still need to go through the hundreds of games I've got installed to disable updates as everytime I open Steam, I get 30 mins of nothing but game updates. It's driving me up the wall.
I have Steam installed on a hard drive specifically for my games and if I ever need to reinstall Windows then it is a very simple matter of doing a repair install of Steam and I am good to go, no re-election installation of games needed.