Codeusa / SteamCleaner

:us: A PC utility for restoring disk space from various game clients like Origin, Steam, Uplay, Battle.net, GoG and Nexon :us:
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Ignore/Exclude Steam shared Redist. Directory #74

Open cvxx7q opened 5 years ago

cvxx7q commented 5 years ago

Hi there,

i have small issue, that when running steam cleaner it deletes the Shared Redist' Folder steam is now using to consolidate all the Redist' into 1 directory vs every game having its own copy

"~\Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared"

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this folder may be beneficial to keep since it serves many games with one set of redist, older games may not utilise this folder however and can be cleaned up as per what this tool is used for

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1782766638536555591/#c1782766638536882871

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/common_redist

Zorrototo commented 5 years ago

Yes this folder is absolutely a NO for deletion as it is common now to ALL your games in Steam library which render this tool almost/completely useless for Steam when 100% of Steam games will have shifted to this new distribution system.

Funny I commented about that yesterday lol https://github.com/Codeusa/SteamCleaner/issues/71#issuecomment-487250246