Never mess with the DirectX files even if there are duplicates. Every DirectX file for each game is necessary to run. However I am not sure the best way to lessen the steam folder's required space other than buying a new SSD or HDD.
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I assume he means the dozens of identical DX installers and the like. The redists folder with many games can be bloated with no reason. It's an idiot-proof measure from Steam and fairly understandable (one of their better ideas), but the implementation is rather terrible (again, typical Steam).
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Absolutely buddy, any personal experience with Steamcleaner? Is it safe?
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Alas, no. I tend to keep my installation downs to under ten games, and I just remove what I don't play, so I have space all the time.
But based on the screenshots, with the GUI it should be safe (you see what it wants to delete). Plus even if it breaks something, you can always repair anything with Steam. The only problem I can think of is if Steam and its games are installed to Program Files (for whatever ungodly reason), and it overzealously cleans the rest of Program Files. But I find it highly unlikely.
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Well I am safe in that department, I have my OS on a different SSD and data on a Mechnical HDD, configured Steam to install games on Mechanical HDD instead of SSD Edit freed 22.5GB :-)
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Agree ! Mess up my folder two times trying to K.I.S.S it...
Same with the multiple C++ ones
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Can't you just delete the local content of the games you're not playing?
I have quite a few games that are in my library but not installed - I just install it when I want to play it.
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That is a way to do it as well, however I have a limited data plan of 500GB per month. I need to be judicious about how I handle my downloads. I need to backup games on an external drive first and then probable I can do it this way as well. However steamcleaner seems like a good tool and cleared 22.5 GB of data for me for now.
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500 GB a month? I could probably use that up with two Twitch-viewing sessions. o.0
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So you can relate to my predicament. :-( it cost me like $56 a month for this much as well
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Well, I have an actually unlimited (with no bandwidth throttling) business-grade 115/10 plan for about 28 USD… so, to be honest, I can only imagine that.
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Maybe someday competition can drive that here as well. Right now I have to pay alot to have the privilege called internet.
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Actually 500GB is enough for about 350 hours of twitch viewing.
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"I have a limited data plan of 500GB per month." Problems of the first world. Jesus christ, I have a 10mbit/s connection here (which is kinda expensive), I wouldn't be able to use 100gb of that plan in a month even if I really tried to. What do you use that connection for? I mean, how do you use 500gb per month.
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My family uses around 600-800GB/Month but between the 5 of us we do a lot of streaming, so that uses a lot of data. Also downloading games, some are like 40GB so that can chew into it.
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Buddy its a entire family who uses this 500GB. Data is consumed in several PC/Laptops and Smartphones. If you add streaming and Steam downloads, you can use 500GB very easily.
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We're 6 at my house (5 at the moment, one of my brothers is on a trip), my brothers are almost all day using the pc, and if it's not the pc, they are using their cellphones or our ps4. My parents don't use internet that much, but still... Anyways, it's interesting to see that such data plans exist, I never heard of them before. Internet in my country is an expensive and shitty service.
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I switched to a business plan because my ISP phoned me that I used over 2 TB each month for three months in a row… it's not that particularly difficult to reach, especially with video streaming being a thing.
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CCleaner has an option to delete Steam files. If I run it first and then Steam Cleaner it usually finds nothing so I just stick with CCleaner.
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Really I have been using CC for quite some time but didn't see that option for steam, Could you guide me how you do that?
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The selection box for Steam is on the Applications tab under Multimedia.
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I don't have that option here in my CCleaner. Interesting!!
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CCEnhancer can add it for you but I didn't have to use it. It showed up in a recent CCleaner update.
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Thanks for the link. However we both have the same version of CCleaner. May be its a region thing.
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I think you need to install this: https://singularlabs.com/software/ccenhancer/
ninja'd
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i use this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikione/
works very well
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If two or more files are truly identical, you need only one copy and symbolic links. They're not just a *nix thing, NTFS has support for them, and more..
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it only happens when you reverify the files. Check the rest of the thread buddy, you may find a solution as well. Extra saves never hurts :-)
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You could backup the games and delete the original files, when backing up a game through steam it basically reverts it to its installation size that steam uses, so it takes as much space as it needed to download before installing, which could save ALOT of space, for example I hear Ark Survival Evolved is 50 gigs big, but the download size is 10 gig, so if you'd backup Ark and delete the original files ud save 40 gigs of space
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Steam backup option doesn't work for me. It corrupts data, I manually back it up and use a sync tool to keep it up to date.
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Guys, my steam folder is around 2TB now, and I want to make it lean, without loosing games. There are multiple duplicate files in steam for example for Direct X components or similar common files. How can we remove the irrelevant files from the steam folder without affecting game installations?
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