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Foamer said:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

or

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx


No, I don't want to move all of my games. I just want to install new games to a new folder.



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Antabus said:
Foamer said:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

or

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx


No, I don't want to move all of my games. I just want to install new games to a new folder.

If your hard drive is full, what good would it do to install in a new folder?! Unless you have more than 1 hard drive, in which case you can just move the games you've already installed to the other hard drive, so you have enough space to install a new game. That's what many people do, and it's quite convenient.



Use the Junctions program in the second link, as explained in this post-

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=25047613&postcount=4126



shio said:
Antabus said:
Foamer said:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

or

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx


No, I don't want to move all of my games. I just want to install new games to a new folder.

If your hard drive is full, what good would it do to install in a new folder?! Unless you have more than 1 hard drive, in which case you can just move the games you've already installed to the other hard drive, so you have enough space to install a new game. That's what many people do, and it's quite convenient.


I have 3 hard drives and even more partitions... I'd prefer to install new games on another folder, I suppose that isn't possible? I tried to move a game but steam did not find it any more. Is there a feature on steam which allows you to move the games and actually play them?



You need the games in the same folder, or you need to use symbolic links as explained above.



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Foamer said:

You need the games in the same folder, or you need to use symbolic links as explained above.


Great. Another awesome feature of steam. ffs

Haha. The crap really does not allow me to choose where to install the games. That is unbelievable.



You have more than one solution, so what's the problem? Either shift the games to a larger drive/ partition, or use the Junction program. Anyway, as Russinovich points out-

"Unfortunately, Windows comes with no tools for creating junctions—you have to purchase the Win2K Resource Kit, which comes with the linkd program for creating junctions. I therefore decided to write my own junction-creating tool"

Maybe if Microsoft were more on the case, you wouldn't have to download another application to do the job.



Foamer said:

You have more than one solution, so what's the problem? Either shift the games to a larger drive/ partition, or use the Junction program. Anyway, as Russinovich points out-

"Unfortunately, Windows comes with no tools for creating junctions—you have to purchase the Win2K Resource Kit, which comes with the linkd program for creating junctions. I therefore decided to write my own junction-creating tool"

Maybe if Microsoft were more on the case, you wouldn't have to download another application to do the job.

Maybe if steam allowed to install the games where you want, there would not be a problem? I don't want to bother with that kind of stuff just because Valve can't be bothered to make their product a tolerable one.

 

And you are blaming MS for the crap Valve does. Lovely!



You can install the games where you want. As you've been told repeatedly, you need to use the Junction program if you want to split the games across multiple partitions, or shift the entire folder to a larger partition if you want to keep everything together. Sorry if that's not getting through to you in your haste to complain.

Or of course, you can waste everyone's time making up obscure reasons to whine and troll.



Foamer said:

You can install the games where you want.

Okay, I buy a game and I can pick a folder for it? No?

I see that you feel it is trolling for a paying customer to complain about the bad service he gets...