stupid steam question

[Stmfuller]

I've been looking around and i can't figure it out. Does steam have to install games onto the same directory/drive that the program was installed on.
I've taken advantage of some of the recent steam sales, and well...I've got a 500g drive that might be better for this rather than the 80g that houses my OS/steam.
Thoughts?
I just don't want to have to uninstall everything/reload steam onto the other drive and spend all that time redownloading everything.

[Mastergeo7]

Yes, it installs everything on the same folder. But you don't have to redownload anything, just copy the whole steam folder and reinstall it to that same route.

[muddi900]

I fucking hate this about steam!

[Stmfuller]

so you think if I take the game folder and copy/paste it to the new directly where steam is installed it should work?

[biosc1]

so you think if I take the game folder and copy/paste it to the new directly where steam is installed it should work?

Yup, I just recently did this.

I installed Steam. Started it up and then shut it down.

Then I copied over the old Steam folder into the new Steam folder, restarted Steam...and voila. If I remember correctly, I may have done some massaging to get it to work...ie. rebooting Steam once or twice.

Works fine. Saves one from having to download a near terabyte of data for some ;)

[total]

Yup, I just recently did this.

I installed Steam. Started it up and then shut it down.

Then I copied over the old Steam folder into the new Steam folder, restarted Steam...and voila. If I remember correctly, I may have done some massaging to get it to work...ie. rebooting Steam once or twice.

Works fine. Saves one from having to download a near terabyte of data for some ;)

Yeah I've done this too. How the fuck you garnered a terabytes worth of data on Steam though is beyond me.

[Pale Ale]

Poor Impulse Control! :D