Steam wont discover downloaded files

Yeah, I noticed my poor reading afterwards. I edited in my former comment regardless. See if either is doable by you. Guys it just worked for Mass Effect 2. Installed in like 3 minutes Is there any way of getting it to install? Verifying has always worked for me. Originally posted by Kickin' Chicken :. Originally posted by Teutep :. Does anyone know where I can get such a file? What sort of file? How does one create such a thing?

Posts: 6. Discussions Rules and Guidelines. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts. All rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. I think the following is the correct way to currently do what I wanted: Ensure that Steam thinks the game is not installed. Close Steam just to be sure.

Launch Steam and install the game. Watch and wait as it downloads only the missing parts. I still have to download 9.

Improve this answer. When you actually get it installed, did it keep your game saves? The final folder size is It didn't keep the saves, probably since the Steam saves are kept somewhat differently than the retail version I didn't need it to anyway, since I was did a fresh playthrough for the Steam achievements.

I'm trying to do this with Thief , but Steam doesn't "see" the files. Is there an actual "Discovering existing files" stage? Manu There was, at least when this answer was written. That may be it, I thought it was "ThiefGame" based on what I saw in the Downloading folder, but it may be simply "Thief". I'll try that. Show 1 more comment. I have found best way. This will not work if you only have the steamapps folder backed up. Actually you can bind a steam app folder simply from the steam gui!

Lesto Lesto 5 5 bronze badges. Issue solved: Hope this helps you guys. Play the game. I can install games onto the external hard drive, but can't play games that all already on it. Please Help. Showing 1 - 15 of 49 comments.

I have 3 3TB externals. I download mostly to them because my boot drive is a SSD and I don't want to waste space on it with games. I find that most games will download nad run from the externals, but some will not and error. If I redownload them to the internal they work. Not sure why you could play and now can't? I do play ACII from my external. Check your path and traget parameters for the game link.

My issue is that brotherhood crashes instantly Unless the game writes it's own data files on the root which then may be shared.

I have The Witcher 2 on my external hard drive and when i try to install it because i take my Hard drive to friends houses i select the folder and it says failed to add new Steam Library folder.