Steam disk space required more than download file size

It's a large game, full install takes up over GB. Now, Steam gets screwed in some way and no longer detects your game as installed. However, since the game takes over half of the size of the SSD, I cannot make room to have enough room to install it twice, not to mentioned I barely managed to make enough space to install it once.  · Available: The number of 1K blocks that are unused on this file system. Use%: The amount of space used in this file system given as a percentage. File: The filesystem name, if specified on the command line. Mounted on: The mount point of the filesystem. You can replace the 1K block counts with more useful output by using the -B (block size) option.  · Unlike other gaming clients, Steam compresses game files for downloads. This results in much smaller download sizes, often 30% - 60% less. This is also why Steam shows a different size when asked to install a game than while downloading it.

Click the "Advanced" button near attributes. Tick "Compress contents to save disk space". Then just click Apply and choose "Apply changes to folder, subfolders and files". It should be done within an hour, afterwards your "Size on disk" will be much smaller than "Size", as you can see on my screenshot below: Save even more by deleting. Steam makes it easy to download and play great Mac games. Steam hides your downloaded games, though, which makes it easy to waste dozens or hundreds of GB of hard drive space. Here's how to reclaim it. J.R. writes: I just ran DaisyDisk on my Mac and discovered that I have more than GB of files dedicated to Steam. I don't play most of those. It is limited to kbps, which means download speeds around 60KBps(Bytes vs bits, 1 to 8 ratio). That takes forrrrrreverrrrrrr to download. DCUO has far more complex graphics than this game and has been around far longer yet it doesn't take up even half the storage this game does or download size. Hard drive space is cheap. Download bandwidth.

Steam makes it easy to download and play great Mac games. Steam hides your downloaded games, though, which makes it easy to waste dozens or hundreds of GB of hard drive space. Here's how to reclaim it. J.R. writes: I just ran DaisyDisk on my Mac and discovered that I have more than GB of files dedicated to Steam. I don't play most of those. To save more than 1GB files, please try Pro Ultimate edition or more advanced editions. Way 2: Resize or Extend Partition If the error still shows up when you download new games from Steam, it means that freeing up disk space is not enough in this situation. @ am. Files are usually compressed and will be decompressed when installing the game. #1. tomk1. View Profile View Posts. @ am. Usually download size is about 3/4 disk space required size. #2.