The true takeaway for me was that entrepreneurship and creativity, however complicated, difficult or tortured to execute, are perhaps the most important drivers of business today and the growth of our economy.
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Eduardo Saverin Co-founder, Facebook, Talking about “The Social Network” |
How to change the location of Steam game files, on a mac.
I have a SSD and a 500GB standard HDD in my laptop. Annoyingly, Steam for mac stores all it’s mass of game files in the ~/Library/Application Support. Annoying indeed when your main drive is your SSD, it can become very full very quickly.
Steam doesn’t have a setting you can change to change the location of game files. I found a way around this, so thought I would share so others can do the same.
To change the location of Steam game files:
1.Move the ‘steam’ in /Users/<Name>/Library/Application\ Support/ to the new location.
2. Use the Terminal to set a Symbolic link on the old position like this :
ln -s /Volumes/<new disk>/Applications.firewire/Steam /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Application\ Support/Steam
You will haveto substitue <new disk> and <yourusername>, ofcorse.
Hope this helps someone. Leave a reply if it does.
