- The Steam library folder contains all of your installed games on disk. These folders need to be writable by all users in order to update properly. Sometimes these user permissions break and need to be refreshed. Navigate to your Steam - Settings - Downloads - Steam Library Folders - Right click on folder - Repair Folder.
- Steam – Is it possible to use the same steam library folder on multiple OSs steam Mostly when booting multiple operating systems on the same computer, it seems really inefficient to have every game twice (or even three times), considering it's mostly the same.
- Click “Steam library folders” at the top of the “Downloads” tab in the settings. To add a new Steam library folder, click “Add library folder” in the bottom-left corner of the “Steam Library Folders” window. In the bottom-left corner of the “Steam Library Folders” window, click “Add library folder”.
- From here, select Steam Library Folders. From this menu, select Add Library Folder. The top drop down will let you select other drive labels. Add the label that you mapped your NAS to, and make it the default download location by right clicking it in the folders list. Install your games normally. If you don't have a game.
We're seeing even more leaks out of a recent Steam Beta update from Valve that not only hinted at the SteamPal console, and the new Downloads page but also a big overhaul to the Library manager.
Select Steam library folders. Source: Windows Central. Click on add library folder. Source: Windows Central. Find your. external drive. in the drop-down box. Click on add library folder.
If you only have one storage drive, you've probably never used it or even looked at it. In the Steam Client, you can set where you want Steam to install downloads into, with it being pretty darn archaic right now and not so useful. I give you Exhibit A:
Thanks once again to Pavel Djundik of SteamDB for pointing out the new leak on Twitter, we know that Valve are testing a complete overhaul to bring it in line with their modern styling. Note: you need to opt into the Steam Beta.
It's currently a little on the broken side but you can easily see where they're going with this:
To enable it you need to open then Steam console by going to 'steam://open/console', and then enter 'bEnableNewContentManagement 1' to enable the feature (and 0 to turn it back off). To find the Download folders you go into Steam Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders.
Once the styling on it is cleaned up, it looks to be far more useful giving you more data about each storage folder at a glance and yup - even a bit more console like I would say. Would fit in more on a SteamPal don't you think? Desktop too of course, it actually seems quite useful to get a proper breakdown like that.
What do you think?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
If you tried adding existing Steam Library in your Steam Client, you might be experiencing this problem – popping up error message “New Steam Library Folder must be empty”. This error is not a bug or something, this is because we’ve added incorrect hierarchy of folders for your existing steam library.
In order to fix this issue, make sure that the folders common, depotcache, downloading, shadercache, sourcemods, temp, workshop and other appmanifest files are inside the steamapps folder.
The example folder hierarchy should be:
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/common
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/depotcache
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/downloading
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/shadercache
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/sourcemods
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/temp
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/workshop
- G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/etc…
Now you can add your steam library without problem, Go to Steam, then Settings, open the tab Downloads and click the Steam Library Folders. Now add your steam library folder, on our example its “G:/YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY”. It should look like the screenshot below.
Steam Multiple Library Folders
After that, the number of games you already installed should appear on the Steam Library Folders table.
Alternative Fix (Credit to Fred)
- Make a new folder where you want your games to be on your hardrive (example: steamgames)
- Go to steam settings > Downloads > Steam library folders.
- Add the game folder, in this case steamgames.
- Install a small game on your new steam folder. (Just find a free game that seems small) // What this is going to do is it make a new steam directory for your games.
- Move all your previously installed games from your previous steam library folder (steam/steamapps/common) to the new directory where you installed the small game.
Moving all the games won’t take any time because its on the same drive.
Steam Libraryfolders.vdf
Now when you press install on one of your steam games that you installed before resetting your PC it will start validating the game. Your games will validate at the speed of your HDD. Usually that won’t take long because it will be somewhere around 60 MB/S and upwards.
Steam Library Folder Missing
If you still have problem getting this fixed, don’t hesitate to comment or if you have better suggestion feel free to share on this page.