The Desolate Hope is a free game for the PC available through Steam digital distribution platform that mixes a number of different gameplay mechanics including traditional platformer and top-down dungeon crawl.
Steam and the entire library of games from VALVE (not counting third party games) should only suck up 20gigs of space maximum, HOWEVER when you start to play Counter strike or Team fortress online your drive will start to fill up with custom content from multiplayer servers. I have seen a counter strike install grow as large as 50gigs after years of playing online. EDIT: for the noobtastic people out there, the custom content downloads are on demand when you join a custom map server and are not mandatory files you can keep around.
Infact if your handy with bash you can make a script that scrubs counter strike of all none valve files inorder to keep your size down. Move your steam folder to the desired location open up terminal and get ready to use your mac like a man (sorta). Type in 'cd /Users//Documents/' (the home location of 'Steam Content' by default you can do this by draging your documents folder into the terminal window after typing 'cd ' (note the space) but we are doing things the manly way. Press enter and type 'ln -s /paths/to/Steam Content Steam Content' NOTE THE SPACES. Yet again you can do this by drag and drop just note that there is a space without the escape character in between the folder your linking and the link its self.
This should help if you have any questions about procedure. Click to expand.Video is hard to see. Can't make out text entered in Terminal window. Also can't full screen it. Also, your directions are a little hard to follow. Re-wrote them to be a bit clearer:. Move the 'Steam Content' folder from your Documents folder to where you want your steam content stored (in this example, /Games).
If you want, rename the folder (for example, Steam). Open another Finder window to your User folder. You should have two Finder windows open: One open to your new steam content location (/Games) and one open to your User Folder. Open Terminal. Type. Code: ln -s /Games/Steam /Users//Documents/Steam Content.
Press Enter. Open your Document folder. There should now be a alias folder named 'Steam Content'. Double click-it. The Finder window should now be at your new steam content folder (/Games/Steam). If not, delete the 'Steam Content' alias in your Documents folder and try again from step 6 I used to work tech support for a research company and had to write stuff up like this for less tech-savy users in the office.
Here's hoping the way I wrote it makes it easier for less techy Steam users to understand. If I made it more confusing, sorry. Click to expand.I don't think any single file will be bigger than 4gb, although I've seen it on WoW. Anyway, thanks for the tips guys, but since my default 'home' folder location has already been linked to an optibay HDD I think I'm good. I just googled to find out where the games install to and found this thread =) great!
I found out they moved the folder to application support file under library. Since I've moved my default home location via sys preference - accounts - advanced options it's automatically on the extra drive. I'm good too now. I feel like I'm about to explode! I honestly have tried everything to the letter that has been described here, so I'll post up what I think I should be adding into Terminal in hope that someone more able is able to qualify that what I am doing is indeed correct, or not. The directory that at present my Steam Directory is located in: /Users/appleadmin/Library/Application Support/Steam The acutal directory I want my Steam Downloads/Content to is: /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam So in Terminal I have been typing the following: ln -s /Users/appleadmin/Library/Application Support/Steam /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam But when I do this and I subsequently load up STEAM again and then try to download it is still directing those downloads to the wrong drive - IE with only 32gb's of free space left. Where as the other one, /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam has like 170gb's of free space.
Please, please help if you can - appreciation in advance for anyone who has pity on me. Click to expand. Your example: -s /Users/appleadmin/Library/Application Support/Steam /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam Guide example: MyMac: jharris$ ln -s /Volumes/WDMac2/Steam Content /Users/jharris/Library/Application Support/Steam It's not working because the command is not formatted correctly. If you want to cut through all the details, just go to the last paragraph in my post. A quick look comparing your example with the example in the guide seems to indicated you arranging the content backwards. In the Guide Example the Steam content was dragged to an external hard drive named: WDMac2. When creating the symbolic link you are 1) telling it what to point at, then 2) telling the Terminal where to put the symbolic link and giving it a name.
In addition, you did not type in the 'ln' command. (Will lack of doing this break the process?
I don't know, but you should still do it.) At this point my advice is to start from scratch and follow the exactly. Try to avoid trashing any game content you have all ready down loaded. Format is critical, no errors allowed. In the MR Guide, only type in what you must type in. Establish file paths by dragging the folders to the terminal window when told to. You'll get it.