Add library
Pick "choose an alternate location" instead of a drive letter.
Then pick your existing steam library.

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Add library
Pick "choose an alternate location" instead of a drive letter.
Then pick your existing steam library.

I just get "This drive already has a library folder" in reply. I have steam installed on the same drive as my steam library... I don't know why that would cause a conflict... but they're not installed in the same folders... blegh.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157050855
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157051590

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157050855
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157051590

I never understood the whole "your non steam pictures are bad fu" thing but here's a screenshot of the reply I get when attempting to do what you've suggested.

https://ibb.co/d0CWtCsP

Originally posted by Corp. Hunter2042:

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Add library
Pick "choose an alternate location" instead of a drive letter.
Then pick your existing steam library.

I just get "This drive already has a library folder" in reply. I have steam installed on the same drive as my steam library... I don't know why that would cause a conflict... but they're not installed in the same folders... blegh.

The conflict is that wherever you installed Steam, it also contains a library folder, and you cannot have more than one library folder per drive.

So if you installed Steam to a drive that already has a separate library folder, you won't be able to add that as another library folder.

Unless you can install Steam do a different drive, you'll have to take the library folder that you want to add and merge into the one that is within the Steam folder.

I don't know what your folder structure is, but you should be able to extrapolate from instructions and adapt them to your own setup.

I'm assuming the drive is G:

You already have a library on it at G:\STEAM\steamapps\common\

G:\STEAM\ is the library folder.

You installed Steam to the G: drive, let's say it is at

G:\Steam_Client\

It also has a

G:\Steam_Client\steamapps\common\

So you currently have a library of

G:\Steam_Client\

And you are trying to add

G:\STEAM\

which the client won't allow.

Shut down Steam completely, as in Exit Steam, not just click the X to close the window.

Take the G:\STEAM\steamapps\ as a whole and copy it to the G:\Steam_Client\ folder. Hope you have the drive space for a copy, but I would rather copy than move just in case something goes wrong. But you can move it there if you're comfortable with it. Up to you.

If Windows ask to merge or overwrite, just keep clicking yes or ok, whatever makes it work.

Once the Copy is complete, boot up Steam and it should see all of the games again. It may think it needs to "update" a bunch. It's just verifying your license and checking for an update.

After that if you're confident that everything copied over, you can then delete the G:\STEAM\ folder as you would have copied over everything that is important.

Good luck.

I just reinstalled Steam on a different drive. I'd rather keep it all on a single drive but meh, I don't feel like merging the folders.

Lazy, pathetic, whatever.

You can have multiple Libraries on the same drive if you manually execute the add folder command (think what you were trying to do via the client UI but this time it works). It's a simple process, no merging of folders needed. See the post above yours if you're still interested in keeping things on a single drive.

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

Originally posted by Corp. Hunter2042:

I just get "This drive already has a library folder" in reply. I have steam installed on the same drive as my steam library... I don't know why that would cause a conflict... but they're not installed in the same folders... blegh.

If you don't want to move things around or create symbolic links, you could manually execute Steam's add library command and get around the one drive per library stipulation:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/1/4365752495731649458/#c4365752495732171425

Thanks man.