Steam installed twice on a drive

[ohend14]

I have recently found out that Steam is installed 3 times on my PC, 2 on my SSD and one on my HDD. The SSD versions are in 'Program Files' and 'Program Files (x86)', while the one on the HDD is installed under the Desktop (there is a version of Windows on that too). I can move games between the HDD and SSD and they seem to move pretty much just to the 'Program Files' folder.

My SSD is running out of space, could I delete one of the instances of Steam off of the SSD? And if so, which one?

 

[Sedivy]

I am not entirely sure why you have two steam installations at all. You can manually switch where steam saves your games, under Steam->Settings->Steam Library Folders. If the two installations use the same account, I would check for each game you want to keep, where its default game install path is (not all are the same strangely enough), and then in the first steam installation, under menu I mentioned, hit add steam library folders, and add all the folders containing games you wish to keep, wherever their install path may be. Then remove the second steam installation. Again this is all assuming it's the same steam account on both.

 

[ohend14]

I am not entirely sure why you have two steam installations at all. You can manually switch where steam saves your games, under Steam->Settings->Steam Library Folders. If the two installations use the same account, I would check for each game you want to keep, where its default game install path is (not all are the same strangely enough), and then in the first steam installation, under menu I mentioned, hit add steam library folders, and add all the folders containing games you wish to keep, wherever their install path may be. Then remove the second steam installation. Again this is all assuming it's the same steam account on both.

Thanks, this worked perfectly! (and saved me a few GBs.)