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This was a major pain point in the past for me. This stupid program could not for the life of it detect existing installs if you needed to uninstall/reinstall EPIC Games Launcher or moved installed games to another location, etc things that required jumping through hoops in the past. You would need to do some odd ball workarounds by renaming the existing install folder, let the game start downloading, pause the download, task kill the EPIC Games Launcher, move some .egstore files/folders around, reopen the EPIC Games Launcher and tell said download to resume and at that point it would start verifying and would ALWAYS need to redownload some portion of the game. It was quite a crappy solution. Even more so if you need to rinse and repeat on a large library of games!
Just today I realized I needed to do this again and I thought "let's see what happens if I try to install to same exact location" because NORMALLY it would give you an error saying the folder already exists or isn't empty and cannot be installed/downloaded there. This is why you need to do the renaming step I mentioned above. However, today when I try it, it did not give me this error and a few seconds later it changed to VERIFYING the existing files! It did not need to do any additional redownloading either!
WOO HOO! ONLY TOOK THEM LIKE WHAT.....HALF A DOZEN+ YEARS TO FINALLY ADD THIS "FEATURE"!
I had no idea they added it, so this might be old news, but it's new news to me lol. So sharing this thinking maybe others might not know about it either.
Kinda odd, but they have left up their help web pages that continue to describe the now obsolete jumping through hoop steps I detailed above....that's def not required anymore.
This was my main huge gripe that made EPIC Games Launcher less of a program when compared to the likes of Steam. This basic addition makes much closer to being on par to Steam in my opinion. Though I still prefer Steam more, I no longer can complain about this and must give credit where it's due. They patched up a major hole with this quality of life feature! Now, to play the other side, they could take it one step further and just have it work automatically in the background like Steam does (assuming the disk/directory is already added to your Storage locations that is - but even if it is not, soon as it is added the existing installs are detected automatically). So there is still room for improvement but it's far more user friendly now!
So the TLDR summary is you can now simply tell your "missing" game to download to where it is already installed and it will verify it just like every other game launcher on the planet does.
Just today I realized I needed to do this again and I thought "let's see what happens if I try to install to same exact location" because NORMALLY it would give you an error saying the folder already exists or isn't empty and cannot be installed/downloaded there. This is why you need to do the renaming step I mentioned above. However, today when I try it, it did not give me this error and a few seconds later it changed to VERIFYING the existing files! It did not need to do any additional redownloading either!
WOO HOO! ONLY TOOK THEM LIKE WHAT.....HALF A DOZEN+ YEARS TO FINALLY ADD THIS "FEATURE"!
I had no idea they added it, so this might be old news, but it's new news to me lol. So sharing this thinking maybe others might not know about it either.
Kinda odd, but they have left up their help web pages that continue to describe the now obsolete jumping through hoop steps I detailed above....that's def not required anymore.
This was my main huge gripe that made EPIC Games Launcher less of a program when compared to the likes of Steam. This basic addition makes much closer to being on par to Steam in my opinion. Though I still prefer Steam more, I no longer can complain about this and must give credit where it's due. They patched up a major hole with this quality of life feature! Now, to play the other side, they could take it one step further and just have it work automatically in the background like Steam does (assuming the disk/directory is already added to your Storage locations that is - but even if it is not, soon as it is added the existing installs are detected automatically). So there is still room for improvement but it's far more user friendly now!
So the TLDR summary is you can now simply tell your "missing" game to download to where it is already installed and it will verify it just like every other game launcher on the planet does.