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Mods all trying to redownload to C Drive since the new steam update.
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Description

My C Drive has only 20 gb free, but every time I start up arma, al 46 gb ofl my mods from my secondary hard drive are trying to redownload to my C Drive.

when I try to delete them from the C drive they just start downloading again, and now they all show up as corrupted in the mod section of the launcher

This didnt happen until the newest steam update, there is also a thread on the arma subreddit of others having this issue.

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Not Fixable
Reproducibility
N/A
Operating System
Windows 7
Category
Launcher
Steps To Reproduce

have mods saved to a hard drive that is not the default hard drive for steam, start game, watch as all mods "need updates" and download to the wrong drive AUTOMATICALLY.

Event Timeline

Hello,
Steam client is supposed to always download the mods to a same drive as where the game is installed. We have no control over this.

Could you please upload your Launcher and Steam logs so we can investigate?
You can export Launcher logs from Options menu ("Export Launcher logs to desktop").
Steam logs can be found in logs folder in Steam install folder - by default C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\logs

This comment was removed by BISWizard.

That was the problem, the game was not saved on the C drive, but the steam update made it so the mods were all redownloading on my c drive. It seemed to have sorted itself out now though, but it made for an interesting night

Hello,
you're right, there seems to be an issue after Steam update on 18th January. We're trying to put together some details, but for now it seems that restarting Steam client helps to solve the issue.

BISWizard changed the task status from New to Assigned.
BISWizard changed Category from Game Startup to Launcher.
BISWizard closed this task as Resolved.Feb 14 2017, 7:02 PM
BISWizard changed Resolution from Open to Not Fixable.

Closing the issue. Valve has acknowledged the issue with Steam client.