Steam – Benefit from old downloaded files

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I downloaded Borderlands and then, without making a steam backup file of it, I reset Windows, I found that all the files of the game was not removed and then I put in a folder with its code (8980) in the downloading folder in steam library and Steam says its checking found files but then trying to download the full game (10.7GB).

Is there is solution to this?

Best Answer

Go to steam settings, then to the downloads tab. Add the folder with the borderlands files as a library.

Otherwise, try to copy the borderlands folder to your steam library's common folder. The file hierarchy should look like this in the end(SteamLibrary)\steamapps\common\borderlands.