Download Steam Games On External Hard Drive

Select the downloads category and click the steam library folders button.

Download steam games on external hard drive. Since steam relies on the game files residing in the steamapps folder your game files will go to whatever folder you have steam installed in. Launch steam and go to steam settings downloads and click the steam library folders button. To copy it just literally drag the whole thing to your external drive then go grab a beverage.

Moving your steam games around is trickier than you may think. If you had previously installed the games to an alternate location outside of your main steam folder please try the following. To do this in steam click steam settings.

So i restarted my computer. In file explorer on windows 10 you need to go to the location of your existing steam games library. I have a bunch of games installed on an external hard drive.

So i exited steam removed the ehd replugged it in and started up steam again. Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select. For some reason when i started up steam today it said i didn t have them installed.

This will open a window with all your current steam library folders. Still says games aren t installed. If for whatever reason you need to move steam games from one drive.

During the installation of steam you have the option to install steam to a location other than the default. I have no idea what s going on. Open steam then click steam settings downloads steam library folders add library folder choose the folder on the external hard drive.