Deleting local content...?

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h - 08 Mar 2007 10:36 GMT

In Steam, going through all of my games and selecting "Delete local
files" doesn't seem to do anything much, apart from move the games to
the Not Installed list. Had to ferret around in Explorer to delete
everything.

Is this normal?

Note - I know 3rd party mods have to be deleted manually, but HL2,
HL2EP1 etc should surely be handled properly?

Despite anything PC Games may say about Steam (on c.s.p.games.action)
I like the fact that I can delete everything and reinstall later over
the net without having to worry about burning patch and update
disks... t'would be nice if it could clean up after itself better
tho...

h

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Shawk - 08 Mar 2007 16:32 GMT

> In Steam, going through all of my games and selecting "Delete local
> files" doesn't seem to do anything much, apart from move the games to
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> disks... t'would be nice if it could clean up after itself better
> tho...

Don't know about 'delete local files' cos I've never used it but then
again if I wanted to uninstall I'd just delete the Valve folder. You
have that down as a negative - I'd hold it as a positive. Because that
folder is independent (not tied to the registry) I can delete it, move
it to another hard-drive, move it to another PC, pretty much anything I
like and all I need to do is delete the clientregistry.blob and it'll
d-load a new copy of that ( a couple of kb) and... just work.

Excellent. More software should do the same.

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McG. - 10 Mar 2007 11:12 GMT

>> In Steam, going through all of my games and selecting "Delete local
>> files" doesn't seem to do anything much, apart from move the games to
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>
> Excellent. More software should do the same.

Yeah, but when Valve/Steam folks DO screw it up, everybody gets screwed

:-\

McG.

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