At last, Steam lived up to everyones expectations and launched the Storage Manager.

With it, you dont have to search through the \SteamLibrary folder manually to find game folders.

If you dont understand it, you might have trouble locating it easily.

Uninstalled Games Still Taking Up Disk Space: Free Up Disk Space

Below is a concise and explicit tutorial on managing your games with Steam Storage Manager.

Why are the uninstalled games still taking up disk space?

Here are two methods for you to free up disk space.

click on Downloads

Use Steams Storage Manager to Manage Your Games

How to manage storage space on Steam?

Maybe some people dont even know it exists yet.

But you will find it easy to pull up the Steam Storage Manager after reading the following introductions.

click on Add Drive

Steam configs: In the upper left corner, locate and click onSteamand selectSettingsfrom the drop-down menu.

Then you might see and choose theStoragetab in the left pane.

Library Downloads: Hover onLIBRARYnext toSTOREand you will see the hidden menu items.

5 Methods for Steam Not Recognizing External Hard Drive

When displayed, clickDownloads.

Then click theGearicon in the upper right corner of the new page and click onStoragein the left pane.

Once opened, it’s possible for you to use Steams Storage Manager to manage your games at will.

select Make Default

Add a New Steam Library Folder or Drive

  1. choose thedrive nameat the top of theStoragesection and chooseAdd Drive.

You could also chooseLet me choose another location.

Then click onAddand it will launch File Explorer.

What to do if Steam doesnt recognize external hard drive?

Well, you might refer to the troubleshooting methods offered in this post.

  1. choose the drive you just added or want to use in theStoragepage.

  2. hit thethree dotsbehind theyellow stripeand a setting menu will show up.

Then chooseMake Defaultanda yellow starwill appear next to the drive name.

Scroll down to choose the games you want to move by checking the checkbox of each game.

Once done, hit theMovebutton.

In this section, youll see only the drive that already contains a Steam Library folder.

Its easy to carry out with this simple and clear guide.

Thanks for your reading very much.