My machine has a single NVMe slot, so I swapped my 500GB drive with a 2TB last night and did a fresh Bazzite install. I put the 500 into a USB enclosure and hooked it up expecting to be able to copy my games off of it. Steam sees the old drive but lists all its contents as “Non-Steam”.

I have tried ‘repairing’ the library but that does nothing. I tried manually mounting the drive to another path but with the same result.

What’s the best way to get the games off this drive?

Edit: just to clarify, the 500GB drive is a Bazzite install. It was the primary drive until recently.

  • user_6282638282@sopuli.xyzOP
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    9 hours ago

    Final edit: this worked, once I used the correct directory. Note that Steam gives no indication that it found the files except to skip right to “Verifying”.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      4 minutes ago

      Copying them this way isn’t officially supported, but moving them via Steam can be annoying if you have a lot of updates waiting (it won’t move a game unless it is updated for some reason).