Moved ESO to External Hard Drive. How to make it recognize new location?

SaintAemilian

Hello everyone,

So I moved my ESO steam install from my main HDD to an external one. Upon clicking launch, it had me reinstall the entire game again.
I've read that moving this installation between HDD's is a REALLLY bad idea.

My question is: I have the folder with all of the information in it, files and such, that's over 107GB. I moved this back to my main SSD and it's trying to make me install ESO *again*.

How do I make it recognize the main folder instead of having me install everything a third time?

ZOS_Bill

The threads linked below goes over some ways on how to move the ESO installation over to a new PC. The suggestions in these thread may help you out.

• Installing on new PC (file transfer?)
• Moving ESO to a new PC
• Moving ESO to a new computer

SaintAemilian

I'm good. It's been an absolute nightmare trying to get Steam to recognize that this damn game is actually installed, and god help me for buying the bloody Elsweyr DLC when the game isn't technically installed.

I must have been in another universe last night when I went through a few questlines, eh?