Monday 6 January 2014

Steam Mover, how to move steam games and programs to a secondary drive

If you follow me on Twitter you will know that I recently got a new SSD. One of the main problems of getting a new SSD is that in order to get the programs you want from your old HDD to your new SSD then you have to uninstall them and re-install them on your new drive, this can be a huge pain if your moving steam games that are very large files. I was actaully going the other way, moving programs and games from my new SSD to my old HDD; this is because I cloned my HDD onto my SSD using the Samsung software which meant that I had many unwanted programs on my SSD making it almost full.
This is where Steam Mover comes into the equation. As you can probably tell from the name of the app its intended use is to move steam games from their original file location to a new file location but it can be used on any program you want. This is effortless and the makers of this program deserve a round of applause. If you want to download the program follow this link:
http://download.cnet.com/Steam-Mover/3000-2248_4-75764205.html
Once it has downloaded locate where it downloaded to and open it up and double click on the steam mover.exe:

When you double click on it the program will open up, I suggest you make a short cut to your desktop so you do not have to find it each time. When you first open the default file location you will be looking at folder where all of your steam games are by default and it should look like this with all of the games that you have downloaded:


To find the program that you want to move just click on the first three little dots thing (the circled one):

It will then come up with this and locate where the programs are you want to move and select the folder that they are in:

Then click on the second three dots to locate where you want to put it. Once you have selected where you want to move it to, then click on the file so that it is highlighted:

Then click the blue arrow pointing to the right in the bottom right hand corner and it will come up with this command window:

When the command window closes the process is done the command window will close and the program will have changed file location. The whole process is pretty quick considering the size of the files. It is possible to undo the change in file location if you moved it to the wrong place by clicking the blue arrow pointing to the left:


Notice that there will still be a file in the original file location but this is just a short cut to the new file location.
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