• Moving my Steam folder to another PC?
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Is it as simple as just copying it across or is there something that has to be done beforehand, like install steam on the PC you're moving it to or something like that?
Here's a simple guide. 1) Back up your steamapps folder to a safe location. 2) Install Steam on your new PC. 3) Copy the steamapps folder to your new Steam installation and click yes to any prompts you may recieve to overwrite. NOTE: Your steamapps folder does not neccessarily include save games or game profikes, these are saved in different places depending on the application itself. You'll have to back them up seperately.
Would it work if you backed up the entire Steam folder?
You must reinstall Steam on your new PC, for everything to function correctly. The Steam application may/may not rely on registery entries, I don't know. I do not see why you would have an issue with installing Steam on your new PC.
Unless you have custom settings or anything, you don't need to move anything but the .gcf files, and when you press install it'll instantly be done downloading. Otherwise yeah it's just copy paste.
And because of the Steam Cloud, you hopefully won't lose the settings/save games.
I swear you can simply copy the entire steam folder and it will sort itself out/work perfectly or has that changed with the facelift?
It think it would work, because if something's missing, steam will download it. Or is that only for games?
I've moved my steam folder onto another computer and it worked fine. I had another computer without internet capabilities and it was a better gaming computer so I moved the whole steam folder over and launched the steam.exe and it sorted itself out. :smile:
A few answers there, thanks for all of them. So I can just move my Steam folder over and it'll sort itself out?
It did for me, so as far as I know it should work.
Install steam on the other PC, then just move it over, but skip the DLL's and EXE files
You just copy steam.exe and steamapps folder. Then run steam.exe and it will complete itself. Easy as that /thread
[QUOTE=Ericsson;24288064]You just copy steam.exe and steamapps folder. Then run steam.exe and it will complete itself. Easy as that /thread[/QUOTE] You might as well just copy the whole folder, saves downloading new files
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