I need computer help pls

[Willco2]

My original title was way too long lol, but i need steam to detect my previously installed games on my hard drive, and I have no idea how :^(
all of my games are on the drive called "secondary disk" (E:) and i basically dont know how to get steam to detect that drive having my games on it

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[Willco2]

seriously please help someone im super confused and im not spending 20 hours downloading my steam library again

[Insert Name Here²]

You can't expect people to respond immediately when it comes to problems like these

[Juncoph]

try downloading one small game and then configuring its download path so steam installs it where all the other ones are, then hit DL on the rest and IDEALLY steam will notice that their install location already has the game

[suburb]

Go to your settings -> Downloads -> Steam Libraries



You're welcome

[Willco2]

Go to your settings -> Downloads -> Steam Libraries

You're welcome

thanks

You can't expect people to respond immediately when it comes to problems like these

i'm not, i just didnt want this to get lost in the second page of off topic and me never getting help

[suburb]

thanksi'm not, i just didnt want this to get lost in the second page of off topic and me never getting help

Did you have it mapped this way before, or did you just select a folder manually?  Otherwise, if you didn't do my route I suggested originally when you installed all the games, you should just back up specific game save data that doesn't go to steam cloud and reinstall them all.

[Willco2]

Did you have it mapped this way before, or did you just select a folder manually?

i selected my usual folder which is Secondary Disk (E:) > My name > steamapps > common

Otherwise, if you didn't do my route I suggested originally when you installed all the games, you should just back up specific game save data that doesn't go to steam cloud and reinstall them all.

you didnt suggest a route...?

[phflack]

so make a new folder for your new steam library
make steam see it as the new library area
move the games into that folder
then attempt to install them on steam, and it should see them and be all yep ok done (note you still need the hard drive space to install for it to start detecting)

[suburb]

i selected my usual folder which is Secondary Disk (E:) > My name > steamapps > commonyou didnt suggest a route...?

The way I showed you to add a steam library both restores games and is how you set it up to install to another drive.  If you just made a folder and manually mapped to it yourself, you may just be out of luck since you didn't map it properly.

so make a new folder for your new steam library
make steam see it as the new library area
move the games into that folder
then attempt to install them on steam, and it should see them and be all yep ok done (note you still need the hard drive space to install for it to start detecting)

^
He may be right

[Bicky]

select the folder that contains the steamapps directory inside it, not the steamapps folder itself, nor the common folder.

doing this right will work.

[Willco2]

select the folder that contains the steamapps directory inside it, not the steamapps folder itself, nor the common folder.

doing this right will work.

OHHHHH ok ok i'll try this that makes sense.
EDIT: This worked, thank you so much :D