I've downloaded Far Cry 3 through the steam account on my laptop, then copied the files to the Steam account on my desktop PC. I've put the game folder into the common files folder, just as I always do when I copy a game from another computer. This has always worked before. But this time, steam is acting as if the files weren't there, and is trying to download all 10 GB of it, again.   I'm reasonably sure I've put the Far Cry file into the correct directory (steamapps\common). When I tell steam to open local files, it opens the correct Far Cry folder, which has all 10 GB of the required data in it, and when I tell steam to check the files for errors, it tells me everything's fine. And yet it keeps downloading the game and right now is telling me it's got 300 MB downloaded and ten hours to go. What can I do to make it recognize the existing files?
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Let's say I have a game bought on retail/other digital download and installed on my hard drive. I buy the same game (or a minor variant of it, say the GOTY edition) on Steam. It should be possible to use the existing installation to avoid the generally big downloads. This is very useful as it saves both bandwidth and time.   Previously, as far as I understood, Steam downloaded the game files directly to steam\steamapps\common\&lt;game_name&gt;. Since this folder would be created on starting the download, pausing and closing steam, copying the game files to this folder and then validating game files would make Steam absorb as much as possible and just download the missing files.  Currently, Steam downloads the files to steam\steamapps\downloading\&lt;game_id&gt; and then moves them over to the aforementioned folder once the download finishes. So first of all, what the final folder would be is not clear. So what would be the correct way of doing the same thing, that is, make steam use as much of the existing files as possible? Should the files be copied to downloading\*\, or should I figure out the actual folder (say via googling) and copy the files to steamapps\common\*\?  More specifically, I had a retail copy of Arkham City installed and I just bought the GOTY version on Steam. Now I tried both of the above things, in either case, the validating does not seem to do anything. Assuming I have the correct folder name steamapps\common\Batman Arkham City GOTY, according to , if I copy the files there, Steam seems to just continue with its 17GB download. If I copy it to steamapps\downloading\200260 then the download keeps stopping every few seconds with "Disk Write Error" after modifying 1 or 2 files, and I have to keep hitting resume.
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I have just bought a new computer and I have everything migrated over except for my Steam games.  I looked in Program Files/Steam/ and I found a folder full of the games I have downloaded, but I do not know if it is safe to just copy these folders from one computer to another (seeing as a lot of other applications will not work if you do this), or is there another recommended way?  I don't really feel like re-downloading all my games. I don't have the time nor bandwidth to download 20GB over a 1.5mbps connection.  Is it possible to contact Valve and get a disk with the games on it?
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I need help with my steam accounts. I got two steam accounts, and installed games on both. I want to move my games from one account to the other one. The games were bought in a regular store, so I have the CD-codes.  How can I move the games to the other account?
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I am trying to get some files off of my school Linux account using ssh. I have got the connection to work using:  scp &lt;school_server&gt;: ~/folder I want ~/where I want to go.    But when it goes to transfer folder it gives me the message:  not a regular file    The file contains .java files, and I want the whole folder.
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I am having trouble opening the  client after I have already installed it. I am using . I have installed Steam directly from their website. When I try to open steam, it says: Steam needs to install these additional packages: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1:i386, libc6:i386  and asks for my password. I put it in, but now it says: .......... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 E: Unable to locate package libgl1:i386 E: Unable to locate package libc6:i386 Press return to continue:  I press the return key, it starts running, but then it stops loading and a window pops up that says:  You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libc.so.6  What should I do? I just started using Ubuntu this past week.
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I'm having a little trouble to get Max Payne 3 installed on my pc. The trouble is that I have only 20 gb of free space left on my ssd where my steam is installed, and there is no way for me to create extra room. Now the Max Payne 3 game is about 30gb in size.  But because it is so big, there is no way for me to download the game. What i would usually do is download the game and then cut and paste it to my other drive and make a symlink.   But because there is no way for me to download the game I can't do that. Is there a way for me to trick steam into thinking that it is installing/downloading the game on my ssd while it is actually doing that to the other drive?
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For some reason my Steam just broke today after working perfectly since I installed it a few days ago.  It was originally installed via the deb from the Steam site. So I uninstalled that using the Ubuntu Software Center. Then I installed steam-launcher. When I run it from the menu it does nothing at all. When I go through terminal it gives this message, no error:  $ steam/usr/bin/steam:  line 196: /home/andrew/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Success   So I purge-removed it and removed the .steams directory from my home directory but on re-installation its the same story.  I am using Xubuntu 12.10 64bit.  It appears that steam .local/share/Steam/steam.sh is blank. What is it meant to have in it? I am so confused with how reinstalling it doesn't fix it.
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I received a huge .tar.gz file from a client that contains about 800 mb of image files (when uncompressed.) Our hosting company's ftp is seriously slow, so extracting all the files locally and sending them up via ftp isn't practical. I was able to ftp the .tar.gz file to our hosting site, but when I ssh into my directory and try using unzip, it gives me this error:  [esthers@clients locations]$ unzip community_images.tar.gz Archive:  community_images.tar.gz   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note:  community_images.tar.gz may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of community_images.tar.gz or community_images.tar.gz.zip, and cannot find community_images.tar.gz.ZIP, period.   What command do I need to use to extract all the files in a .tar.gz file?
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I have a lot of games on Steam, far more than my puny hard drive can hold at once. However, in the future I may want to store all of them locally.   Is there any way to figure out about how much hard drive space I'll need to install all of my Steam games, including the ones that I don't currently have installed, without sitting down with a calculator and manually adding everything up?
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My game list is approaching 100 games and it is starting to get difficult to sort them. I've categorized them by genre but it's still difficult to find them (and my backlog is getting bigger).  I also have Steam installed in more than one computer so I have to repeat the sorting for each one of them.  Is there any option to have the games ordered in a nice and clean way?  Edit: About the library sync between computers it could be  problem.
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So I've been cleaning up my desktop for the last few minutes, and I tried to delete this empty folder, but it has some 3.46GB of data in it? And I'm like wtf is going on. Any ideas of why this is happening? I restarted my computer, thinking it was just some kind of fluke, but it is still happening.
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I wrote myself a little downloading application so that I could easily grab a set of files from my server and put them all onto a new pc with  a clean install of Windows, without actually going on the net.  Unfortunately I'm having problems creating the folder I want to put them in and am unsure how to go about it.  I want my program to download the apps to program files\any name here\  So basically I need a function that checks if a folder exists, and if it doesn't it creates it.
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Is it possible to avoid recording the time you play CS:GO on Steam? My friend and I had a deal that we would spend the same amount of time playing it so it would be fair. Now I have like 30 hours more on record.   I want to play more and get better but I don't want everyone to see I spend almost all day playing it.  Can I play without getting my time recorded on Steam?
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We just did a move from storing all files locally to a network drive. Problem is that is where my VS projects are also stored now. (No versioning system yet, working on that.) I know I heard of problems with doing this in the past, but never heard of a work-around. Is there a work around?  So my VS is installed locally. The files are on a network drive. How can I get this to work?  EDIT: I know what SHOULD be done, but is there a band-aid I can put on right now to fix this and maintain the network drive?  EDIT 2: I am sure I am not understanding something, but  has the right idea. I'll work with the lead web developer when he gets back into the office to figure out a temporary solution until we get some sort of version control setup. Thanks for the ideas.
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when calling SCP in PuTTY on my Win7 box, it doesn't let me use C:/, but I also have no idea where on my local machine it will look for files by default. None of program directory or user directory worked. For example, I saved file.txt next to PuTTY.exe, and also in C:\Users\Me but calling SCP file.txt file.txt in PuTTY failed both times with      cp: cannot stat 'file.txt'   So, how do I transfer a file to my server using PuTTY?  EDIT: Also, calling SCP file.txt myserver:file.txt gives a similar error: file.txt: No such file or directory
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This is basically a question that applies for any game, but basically, what happened is that my disc for 'Payday 2' got scratched, and even after repairs, the game still cannot be read, and i am nervous about getting a disc in case the same happens again, so i hope to get it off the xbox live marketplace. My question is, will this new game keep the data that is saved to the hard drive, or will i have to get a new disc for this to work?  P.S. if so, will this be the same with other discs?
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Somehow I went to open a shortcut and Windows couldn't find the target but instead of pointing the shortcut to the .exe it pointed the .lnk file handler to the .exe, so now all my .lnk files are trying to be opened by the borderlands game.  What's going on?  I'm guessing I can do it by resetting the .lnk entry in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, but I don't know what to set it to.