Obsolete Steam file may safely be deleted

gooball

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Hey

I e-mailed of Valve the other day to ask about there being a couple of large .gcf files in the SteamApps folder. There was half-life.gcf and half-life localized.gcf

Both files were more than 300mb in size, so I asked if either could be deleted. Valve replied:
"Half-Life Localized" was a cache file we used at one point that contained all of the non-English translation for Half-Life.

We've since gone to a model where the translations are broken up into multiple cache files, and only downloaded on demand. You can remove this cache file.


So i guess you can delete it.
 
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