I usually don't pay much attention to my steam folder
Since I mostly assume it takes care uninstallation by itself.

I was wrong

Today I checked my steam folder and found out alot of excess leftover files from games.

What to look out for:

  • Games that used to be have free weekends and "poofed" at some point out of your inventory.

  • MMOs that auto update outside of steam such as Rift and Eve Online.

  • Certain games just leave more crap behind than others, sometimes 100+ MBs of garbage.


In total I found out I had 27 GB of leftovers plus about 0.5GB of uninstalled games config files, installation logs and such. Screenshot

Used Steam Cleaner and freed additional 2 GB (Thanks for the info guys)


How much space did you free up now by manually deleting the crap steam left behind?


tl;dr - Manually delete games from your steam directory and use steam cleaner because steam leaves garbage files behind.

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true, 1 hour ago I cleaned my steam folder

11 years ago
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Wow, only by using these simple steps, I cleaned 5GB of data from my Steam folder. You too can learn how to do this by clicking this link and use our program: SteamFolderCleaner3000

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I use Steam Cleaner to get rid of excess crap left behind by instals, and I occasionally check my Steam games folder manually in order to make sure there's no junk left. That usually removes at least a gig or so of stuff. The latter method is especially helpful when I can't uninstall a F2P or a game I got during a free weekend the usual way.

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Thanks for the info. Didn't know about it till now. Currently downloading from its website ^^

11 years ago
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You're welcome! I'm sure you'll come to find it as useful as I do. It has saved me a ton of time, as well as HDD space. ^_^

11 years ago
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Thanks it is quite useful. I was amazed to find extra 2 GBs worth of visual studio redist files, yuck.

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Thx for the info

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Just use tikione steam cleaner.

11 years ago
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Got it to work, thanks! Freed another 2 GBs

11 years ago
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I've got around 1TB of installed games right now, so maybe this might be a good idea :/

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Yeah I use this regularly, its verrrry handy!

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Thanks for info, Tzell.

11 years ago
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Restored 10gb manually. Mostly from F2P games and uninstalled source games. Thanks alot!

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Be careful with Steam Cleaner, you have to launch every game you have downloaded with Steam at least once before using it, because if you delete "common redist" and other things like that, you will not be able to launch your game.

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Yes you're correct, thanks for the reminder.

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OK, so basically it only useful for people with tiny libraries?

It would take me several days to launch every game I have downloaded.

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Does not bother me when i have 151 GB of space on the drive i put my games. P.S i have installed my COD: Ghosts on an another drive.

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Space is space regardless of how much you have. Why waste it?

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I just deleted about 20 GB from the steamapps folder manually :P

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Used it to clean a few stuff that ccleaner couldn't find, thanks.

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«Steam Cleaner» is great, thanks!

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4.25 gigs

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I just got another 14GB of free space thanks to Steam cleaner.

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wow thanks for steam cleaner.... You saved 6654.7 MB

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go to the Run console thing, type in %tempt% And delete all those files, then type 'temp' and delete those files and last time idid that i got a nice faster running computer

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Should I clean everything that appears on Steam cleaner?

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I believe so, but make sure you run the game atleast once since download (because it uses those installation files on the first run).

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works fine, thanks :)

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i usually check my steam folder, anyway i got rid of 615.65 MB xD

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Awesome.. thanks!

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So I basically installed 112MB only to remove 4MB?
-_-

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lol thats another way to look at it

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The problem of Steam Cleaner is that uses Java and I'll never install that here. I'd rather check that manually.

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I hope it's not the perception of 'Java is insecure' from you, right? Because that perception is retarded.

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+1

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Then I guess he won't ever be playing Project Zomboid or Blocks That Matter.

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Saved 4026.36 MB, thanks for sharing :)

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Saved 13GB from Empire Total War DarthMod and 2158.48 MB by SteamCleaner.

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Closed 10 years ago by Tzell.