Download location
 

Hi

Where, in the Steam interface, can I change the location of where downloads are stored on my PC?

I've got shedloads of space on my hard drive but the partition on which Steam is located is insufficient for my needs.

Downloads automatically go into a subdirectory of your steam folder, there's no way to change that. If you're on Vista or 7 you can use an external app to move your already downloaded games to another partition and have them still work on steam. I think there's a way to do it on XP but it requires additional files to be installed first.

Steam Mover - traynier.com
SteamTool Library Manager 1.1 - Stefan Jones

I haven't tried either of these but I hear they still work just fine, no reason they shouldn't as it just uses a series of simple windows commands that would work for any files.

If you want to move the entire steam directory then:
You may have to verify files for your games after doing that too.

Sounds pretty simple. I'll give that a go. Thanks :)

I use Steam Tool - I've moved over 300Gb of stuff to a different drive no worries - no reverifying needed either - it just creates the logical links to the files on the other drive.

Easy!

I've moved my entire steam folder the way you described many, many times. And i have yet to verify a game.

Yep...the key is deleting every thing but the exe and steamapps folder. When you log back in it kinda auto verifies as it rewrites sundry files such as the client.blob.

steam mover u can use for any folders i also use it to move my orgin games just a heads up