How To: Keep Steam for Mac Data in an Alternate Location
Steam for Mac is great, and I’m really enjoying Portal at the moment.
I recently upgraded the storage setup of my new Core i7 MacBook Pro 15″ by:
- swapping the boot drive to an 80Gb SSD (Intel X-25M V2)
- swapping the optical drive to a 500Gb HDD (using an Optibay)
- installing the optical drive in an external USB2 caddy.
Because space on the boot drive is now quite precious, I wanted a way to store all of the Steam game content on the HDD, rather than the SSD. A quick Google search found me this page: http://guides.macrumors.com/Symbolic_Link_(Fixing_Steam_Content). A PDF of the page is preserved here for posterity.
I followed the instructions for sorting out a symbolic link (aka a ‘hard link’) and all is sweet!
This of course should work for pretty much any similar need, not just for Steam.
Easy peasy. Recommended.
In: General Nerdery, How To..., Software · Tagged with: how to, Mac, Steam