Browse
Category
DiscussionsUncategorized

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

Closed
Tzell

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.

12 years ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

79 Comments
mkrnic

Alot of space

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.
Tzell

spaaaaace!

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.
Chud

600 mb not that bad.

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.
MidnightWolfie

got around 6 gb ^^ And i was too lazy to do this before :P Thanks!

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.
RoH

13gig, thx

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.
Skylight

I always delete folders of uninstalled games, but I saved around 1.2 GB with Steam cleaner. Thanks for the info! :)

12 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.
InvasorKazz

Got around trying it today, nice software, save me around 10 GB of junk.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Closed 11 years ago by Tzell.