Mklink /D C:/path/to/symlink D:/path/to/realfile All you need to know is how to create hard links to a directory. You don’t need to know much about Mklink to create symbolic links in Windows 7. Learn MKLINK Command Line Options Or Use Symlinker Freeware In order to that we are going to use the command prompt command mlink. What we need to do is to create a hard link to a directory. This directory can have any name, but do not change the name of the actual game folder!
Step Actually move the games to D: or create a subdirectory for all your Steam games, e.g. You could use one of the free disk analyzer for Windows. Step Figure out which games you want to move to (D:). Step Open up C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common and possibly C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\ Ģ. Move Steam Game(s) To New Download Locationġ. For non-techies this will make it a lot easier I guess, although the syntax is very simple and you can learn it in 2 minutes below. Tip for NON-techies: Before you follow this tutorial, you may want to consider downloading this freeware tool that allows you to create symlinks via a GUI (interface). However, it is possible to virtually change the download location in Steam via symlinks. Steam does NOT support having multiple download locations. Tip: If you’d rather not use symbolic links in Windows 7 you can also simply move the entire Steam folder to another directory, uninstall Steam, re-install Steam and choose the new directory. They can be used to copy an identical file/folder to another place on the hard drive without actually copying the file/folder. Symbolic links are links that can point to actual files and directories. Let’s say you want to download and install some Steam games, but your C: partition is full, you can then follow this tutorial, change the download location by moving some of your games to D: and create a symbolic link to virtually keep all of your games in the same place.
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