I'm currently formatting my windows, but to be clever I copied my steam folder so I dont need to download everything again.... Wrong guess (70 Gb) existed out of 98.754 files (majority small files) What the hell? it would had take hours...(copying small files is a burdon for a pc) 70 Gb for only 4 games :evil: How do I get Steam not to eat my HD space away with junk ?
might be the CFG's plus game folders. since you only have 4 games, wouldn't it be better to just reinstall steam and redownload/install everything again? just make sure you backup your screens/saves/ addons or scripts.
I reinstalled steam and just pasted the important files over it...took me "less" time (1h) If I wanne download everything again (+/- 20 gb) would take much longer
you only need: ..\steam\steam.exe ..\steam\steamapps\*.* (all files, only below subfolders, not all) ..\steam\steamapps\common\*.* (all) ..\steam\steamapps\sourcemods\*.* (all, if you have any) ..\steam\steamapps\*your login name here *\Team Fortress 2\tf\cfg\*.* ..\steam\steamapps\*your login name here *\Team Fortress 2\tf\replay\*.* ..\steam\steamapps\*your login name here *\Team Fortress 2\tf\ The other folders in there you DONT need, also not the files in this level. ..\steam\userdata\< numbers here >\7\remote\serverbrowser_hist.vdf That last one is your favorites (servers).
install steam on a fysical different hard drive then the one windows is on. 1. faster ( 1 HD doing windows and virtual memory, other HD is doing game data ) 2. never copy or redownload when formatting or reinstalling windows. (steam will reinstall itself when launching steam.exe in the new install of windows) I'm on my first ever install of steam, and i've been there at the launch of it
Also depending on how your hdd is configured, files on 4gb wont be able to copy... So you need to split them like I did
ffs, convert that disk to NTFS. open a command box by pulling start and type "CMD" without quotes and press "Enter". a command box appears, type in there: convert x: /fs:ntfs where X is the driveletter. any drive above 20 GB is better off with NTFS.
Oh surely no-one still uses the FAT32 file system, especially on hard drives. Pretty easy to reformat it to NTFS for a nice high 16 TB file size limit... EDIT: Ninja'd by datastorm.
Well I got a 500GB one which has been under the bed for ages, got it out and just copied everything across... Wasnt until the end it said I had 2 files over 4GB ¬_¬
You can get WinXP to recognize EXT volumes, then switch to EXT4 through backwards compatibility modules and you'll be the most awesome guy on earth.