Quote: "Well. I seem to have lost access to my old account, due to having lost access to the email address I used before. Oh well.
By the way, this is Aaron."
The real Aaron Miller? If you email mister RickV he can probably help you with that. You just need some way to identify yourself I guess. He's helped me out a tonne in the past
Quote: "I copied a Steam game from my HDD to my SSD games folder, hit "delete local content", and then reinstalled for Steam to discover existing files (after I select the SSD as the install location) and allow me to play that game, as is standard procedure that usually works.
It didn't work. It erased the files I had copied and started downloading it again."
Wut. It should work. Well anyway the far, far, far, far, far, far, FAR easier way to do that is to copy the games to the new location
including the app manifests (the files normally directly inside steamapps) then delete them from the old location then point steam to the new location and restart. It will see the appmanifests and know that they're installed there. You can also copy a specific game by googling it and opening its steam page and looking in the url, the number is its appmanifest and you can copy just that manifest, but always remember to restart steam so it reads the new manifests. We use that method all the time and it works perfectly. Whenever I see people doing the old move-to-new-location-delete-and-rediscover-files method I want to scream that there's a way better method, that doesn't involve needing double the disk space while it discovers files.
