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		gambiting on Feb 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steam now allows you to copy games over a local ne... But.....you still can just "copy over files" if you really want to bring over the good old 2002-like flow. Just copy over files from another machine, then start the install process, steam will realize it already has all the files and will finish instantly, done. I've done this many times.

okamiueru on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

Hm, that is true. Good point. I suppose this is just a nice thing then :). Maybe OP wasn't aware that you could do this without steam complaining.

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