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Steam offers multiple library folders, and yous tin can cull where you want to install games when you download them. And, cheers to an update, you can easily move a game afterwards yous've downloaded it without re-downloading the entire thing.

This process can relieve yous from downloading tens or fifty-fifty hundreds of gigabytes of game data all again, merely because you got a new SSD and want to move a few games. Information technology's unlike from moving an unabridged Steam library binder, which moves every single game inside information technology—the following process will allow y'all move only a few games rather than the whole library.

Step One: Create a Second Steam Folder

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Beginning, you lot'll demand to make a Steam library binder on the second drive if you oasis't already done and then. To do this in Steam, click Steam > Settings. Select the "Downloads" category and click the "Steam Library Folders" push button.

Click the plus button near the tiptop.

Click the plus button

Select the drive you want to create the library folder on, and click "Add". A new folder named "SteamLibrary" will be created on the called drive.

Select the drive you want, then click "Add."

The new folder you created volition now appear along the top with your original steam folder.

Both original and new steam folders visible at the top

Step Two: Move the Games Files to the 2nd Library

There are two means to move an installed game.

The Storage Manager Window

The outset uses the Storage Managing director window, where we but created a new library binder. Select the drive that has the game installed, tick the box adjacent to the game you want to move, and so click "Move" in the bottom right.

Select the drive with the games, click the check box next to the game, and then click "Move."

In the prompt that appears, select the drive with your new steam binder, and and then click "Move."

Click "Move."

Be prepared to wait for this to finish — games can take up dozens or hundreds of gigabytes, and moving them can take quite a while.

The Games Listing

To motility a game in your library, right-click it and then click "Backdrop."

Right click the game you want to move, then click "Properties."

Click the "Local Files" tab and click the "Motion Install Folder" button.

Click "Local Files", then click "Move Install Folder."

Select the Steam library you desire to move the game to and click the "Move" button.

Click "Move."

You're done. Steam will motility the game's files to the other library location. To motion other games, but repeat this procedure.

When installing a game in the future, Steam volition ask which library yous desire to install it to, only you should be able to move your games at any time.

Select which steam library folder you'd like to use.

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