I bought GTA5 this weekend over steam, then realised that the game is 60GB big and I use a capped line. I asked one of my friends to make a copy of the game so I can restore the game using steam and he copied the folder of where it was installed. How do I get this to work?
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I have successfully transferred "Killing Floor" from my brother's laptop to my own via external hard drive. The problem, now that I have all the files, is that I don't know how to launch the game through Steam. All I did was copy files from his Laptop to the hard drive, then from the hard drive to my laptop, then I put the files in the "Steamapps" folder under "Steam" in my laptops hard drive. So the question is, how do I start up the game through Steam?
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I installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 on one of my laptops and now I want distribute that exact installation to a few of my friends. I tried making an iso with Gparted on a live session but it makes a 500 GB file (I've only used around 8 GB) .   Thanks in Advance !
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Since Team Fortress 2 is available for free, many of my friends have downloaded the game. Can I copy the game on a digital media (USB stick or external hard drive) without creating a problem with Steam? This will save me almost 6GB download.  EDIT: I said that this transfer must be made between two different user accounts.
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Is there a way of easily transferring a saved game from one machine to another?   PC to PC XBox to XBox PS3 to PS3 Cross platform transfers
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I recently switched from Windows to Mac. Steam says I have fewer Mac specific games than total games and it should be an equal amount unless you can only download, install, and play once from your account. I thought I bought it so that it would work across all operating systems. If this is true, is there a work around or a discount for re-purchasing for the other OSes?
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I'm making a game using unity. In the game I've a purchasable product "remove ads". Where should I store user purchase data? If I use player prefs data will restore after a reset or uninstall.
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I have a 1 TB HDD and a 120 GB SSD. On the HDD I have all my data along with Steam and—currently—all my games. On the SSD I have Windows 7 and programs, but there's 50 GB of unused space that I wish to use for the games I most commonly play on Steam (for quicker loading times, etc).  To summarize, I want to have this situation:   120GB SSD (C:\): Windows, programs, and a few Steam games. 1TB HDD (D:\): data, Steam, and most games.   Is this possible? If not, what other choices do I have to do something similar?
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I uninstalled and re-installed steam. I didn't uninstall my games, and they still exist on my hard drive (I checked).  I have an SSD and a HDD, and to save space I install programs (including steam) to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam drive (SSD) and games to D:\Games\SteamApps (HDD). How to I let steam know the programs are installed there?
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I've been playing SW:TOR for about a week now, and the game has been completing the download in the background.   It stopped at 99.18% downloaded three days ago. Now, I'm level ten and finished on my planet, but I can't get off the planet because the game "is not fully downloaded". How do I get my computer to finish that last percent of download?
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Well, one example is this file of the game The Sims 2 for PS2: quickdat.arc. The file contains this .arc extension, but it's no one an archive file and it contains some data of the game inside. How can I do this? Put so many files in one?  How to do something like this? All the game files inside one without using a file compressor?
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I'm trying to move some data over and to start with I'd like to make sure that the size is ok. I run into a problem however, if I check the folder with   du -sh  myfolder/ 780M    myfolder/   but   du -sh * .. 71M     myfolder ..   I thought it might be something to do with hidden files but this particular folder does not have any inside.  Am I missing something?
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I can't seem to find anything online that would suggest I can play this game legally without a CD. Not to mention, the CD I own has a chunk of it missing (it still plays fine and installs fine), and having it on multiple computers is a hassle because of the CD always needed requirement.    Is there any way to do this? Whenever I try playing without a CD, I get this:
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I have a bunch of games ready to be played but my internet connection is too slow to download steam.   I tried getting a updated installation file, which i did, but it still requires internet to complete the installation. Any help??
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I have a failure to transfer my game from one HDD to another, and one PC to another. I copied the entire Skyrim folder from one HDD to another. And told where to find it also. Steam did a huge check of my HDD.  But it ended up downloading most of the files anyway. It took a week to download Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn files along with my Hi-Res textures.  I did ask about it in chat. But I feel this could help me or somebody else.  This is the screen I am looking at after transferring my entire hard drive to to new one. Steam downloaded my games, including Skyrim even though my Skyrim data folder had all the data files for Dawnguard, Hearthfire, Hi-Res and Dragonborn.  I have my copied files and have got rid of everything not steam related. I just have my DLCs and they include my hires files.  This is what it looks like.    But I still get this :     What could be causing this? How can I rectify? And in future when one is migrating to a new PC, how can this be avoided?  EDIT::::::::::::::::: Removed everything : Here is how it looks :  Still the prompt as before Steam Error 15  (Side Note : I transferred all my Origin games just by copy/pasting. This really is not nice.)    EDIT 2 :::::::::::::::::::::  And one more EDIT  I tried getting game cache up to speed, but this is prompt I am getting. But I played the game, it was working, I could pick out my character and all, and escape from Helgen.  EDITED 3 :::::::::::::::::  How does one transfer a Steam game? A game that is heavily modded, will the backup a Steam Game option suffice?
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I just got it, it said there wasn't enough storage and I erased almost everything, but apparently my storage is full and I can't play it. Help?
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At my school programing class, our teacher encouraged us to gather other types of video game design software to allow us to make more complex games, instead of just the base Greenfoot and Bluejay games. I remembered I had RPG Maker VX Ace on my computer at home, so now I am stuck at how I would get it to school, seeing that the county blocks Steam (and everything else good on the internet (besides this site)).   Is there a way I could get it onto a USB drive and use it on the other computer without a direct way (from the school computer) to download Steam?
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I'm thinking of installing an SSD on my machine at home, and the easiest way to do this is basically to clone my current hard drive over to the new SSD. Trouble is, if I right click on my current hard drive and select properties, my used space is 230GB, thus requiring me to buy a monster SSD.   However, if I right click on each of the top level folders in my hard drive and select properties, the total space used by those folders is only 140GB. 100GB of that is music and movies, which I can easily clean out before the move to the SSD.  So here's the rub, where did the other 90GB go? For the life of me I can't figure it out. Shouldn't the sum of the used sizes of all the top level folders in your C: drive roughly equal the used size of the C: drive itself?