Moving Steam and all its content to a second drive?

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#1 Buttons1990
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My Steam folder and all of the games in it is well over 380GB now and taking up way to much space on my main drive... Just curious if I am able to simply move the entire thing over to this second drive and run it from there? Or is that impossible?

Like does it have to be on the C drive and have to be in Program Files?

Thanks!

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#2 Black_Dragon
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I'm not sureabout just moving the folder that steam is in but I know that you can install steam into any folder on any hard drive, and it will then save all games on that hard drive(I do this). I imagine you could just try and see what happens.

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#3 chefkw
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I'm not sureabout just moving the folder that steam is in but I know that you can install steam into any folder on any hard drive, and it will then save all games on that hard drive(I do this). I imagine you could just try and see what happens.

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You just have to uninstall steam and re-install it to the new location. Be sure to preserve and move the steamapps subdirectory to the new install location as that contains a majority of the 380GB of games data. Not sure if saved games are there too.

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#4 04dcarraher
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Just copy the steamapps folder and move it to the new drive, then re install steam and exit out of steam and move steamapps back into the steam folder and start up steam again. It will download a few files to reinstall the games but 99% of the data will be there.