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Old 11-19-2012, 01:08 PM
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Where do you change download location in Steam?

Tomorrow it's time to kill, kill and kill. Have a contract tomorrow that needs to be taken care of!

Bought the DVD boxed game and thought i'd preload it considering it was Steam and I knew i wouldn't be able to play until tomorrow but if you buy the DVD version you can't preload it! You have to download a version from steam.

That really makes my ears spew out fire in anger. I have to download something I have on discs to be able to install it before the official release. It's around 12 - 20 GB (i forgot ) and I'm only getting 3 MB/s. Then it stops at 43% because there's no more space. Why? Because I can't seem to find anywhere to change this in the settings where it should download too. Driving me nuts
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Old 11-19-2012, 01:40 PM
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I nor NHQ take any responsability for any lost data, use at your own risk!


Found a solution I've used on other programs, imply do a symbolik link between folders.

The folder for temp download data is depotcache

So create a symbolic link between for example C:\Programs\Steam\depotcache to for example D:\Steam\temp

Delete c:\Programs\Steam\depotcache, any started download and ny other in that forlder might get lost, so if you're unsure copy the content from depotcache to D:\Steam\temp first, any download you've started won't finnish, you'll have to start over)

mklink /J "C:\Programs\Steam\depotcache" "D:\Steam\temp"

This will create a symbolic hard link between these folders, the old folder in C:\Programs\Steam named "depotcache" need to be removed as mklink will create a symbolic folder named depotcache.

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Old 11-26-2012, 04:18 AM
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Good stuff, steam gets bloated, what is the /j switch please?
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Old 11-26-2012, 05:14 AM
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Can we move the location of steamapps in the same manner?
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:32 PM
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/J is for hard link for folders. Yes I've done that too, saves a lot of space on C where I installed Steam
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Old 11-26-2012, 06:57 PM
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Thank you very much
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Old 11-27-2012, 09:24 PM
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Can I link back so I get both locations IE

"MLINK /J %ProgramFiles%\Steam\Steamapps D:\Steam\Steamapps2" then

"MLINK /J D:\Steam\Steamapps2 %ProgramFiles%\Steam\Steamapps


One other thing ...SRY but can I add Steam to my path so that I can do this?

"MLINKK /J %Steamapps% %Steamapps2%
"MLINKK /J %Steamapps2% %Steamapps%

Mainly because windows changes my drive letters when I change external drives around occasionally.

or any other way to make Steam search and store data in both folders?
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Old 12-01-2012, 02:11 PM
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Sorry stomp but I've not messed around with it much, only for simple redirects. But maybe you should use the name of your external harddrive to point to it?
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Old 12-01-2012, 10:01 PM
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It's ok, I'll just have to move it all over, Thanks...very good knowledge
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