Check your steam folder - It can save you alot of space

This is a nice little program for advanced users who want to save themself the time of doing it manually -- I have been in the habit of removing them myself when launching the game for the first time. HOWEVER, the problem is the scan will come up with results for games for which the prerequisites have not yet been installed (meaning the game has not been run for the first time) -- and it will check these by default. It would be very easy for a non-experienced and uninformed user to 'break' one or more of their games by removing the needed redist files. To avoid this the user could run all of the games in the detection first and making sure that they work. Now how feasible that is depends on how many games you are talking about.

Another way around this would be to update the program to check the appropriate system registry entries for each individual game, but that sounds like a lot of work. Some games have also moved to a different method of using "common redist" registry entries that can be shared and utilized for multiple games, but many have not.

I don't want to know how much used space is by stuff I no longer have installed on steam.. gotta be around 280gbs.. lol

Thanks for telling me about the Steam Cleaner. I just saved 4 gb. Yay.

Saved 24MB. Yes, megabytes. Didnt read it wrong.

I do manual cleaning from time to time when I start to run out of space. But thanks for bringing out Steam Cleaner, I'll check it out :)

Manually deleting stuff? I have no idea but, Steam-Cleaner freed 3GB from my HDDs :3

1283.97Mb of redistributables.

Oh thanks, I didn't know that and my disk is getting pretty full.

150 GB
:D

I cleaned 27+ GB out of my steam folders recently before reading this thread.

Saved 666.86 MB using steam cleaner.

Well, just cleaned over 20GB.

I don't really have to worry much about that since the Origin installer wiped my entire c:/games/ folder, haha. Well, no, I suppose it would have built up enough since back then, but still. Nothing gives you space back like an installer deciding to wipe it's parent directory when cleaning up after a bugged install attempt. Just glad I didn't pick the default install directory, otherwise it would have been way more painful to recover from :P

Still, thanks for the heads up on steam cleaner. Might try it out later.

10GB -_-

Damn...
You saved 10800.74 MB. NICE!

Really good, removed 640mb from C: and 1860 from D:

10.4 GB -.-

Woohoo, I saved 29MB.
I guess I do a better job minding it myself than I thought.

I've had this for a couple months already but thnx. I usually clean out like 5 gbs a month, first clean through was like 20gbs

1859 MB

Eh doesn't work even when I point it to the folder it says it can't be found. Guess it doesn't like C:GamesSteam. lol

Edit: I also just learned Steamgifts doesn't let you use backslash.

Old but gold :P

I saved something like 2GB.

It cleaned up 10699.46 MB, and I'm now down to 921GBs from 931GBs (only 32MBs left).

I CAN NOW UPDATE MY GAMES FINALLY.

Sweet, thanks for the Steam Cleaner link!

I always considered creating a program to do the same thing, but never got around to it!