Deleted14340274User Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 THis topic isnt so much as and error on steam or skyrims part but a workaround due to one of my tinkering mistakes , I was creating some outbound rules for my firewall that "i thought" wouldn't effect steam in anyway, i was wrong. so before i thought to remove the rules i tryed to re-install steam because i thought steam had become corrupted.so when that didn't do the trick i removed the un-operating steam but since it was not functional at all i had to do a revo uninstall followed by its scan for reg instances to remove it all. after that was complete it still didnt work then my brain finally told me i should have removed the outbound rules first so i did and now it works.however since i used an advanced remover it cleared out my skyrim install as well . so i tried to re-inject my backup into stems install directory and activate skyrim.exe to re-establish the game with the computer , steam did not like that so no matter what steam continued to prompt for a reinstall.my question is ,is there a way to inject my backup copy into steam and have steam register skyrim is present? any help would be appreciated thank you for reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 As long as the files are in the correct place/s, steam will usually only 'verify' the local files when it does a "re-install". It "shouldn't" force a complete re-download/re-install. However any files that have been modified from vanilla, such as some .ini files or "cleaned" vanilla DLC .esm files, will be re-aquired by steam, so make sure you have a backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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