Hello beautiful people! I have an LCD steam deck currently and i have gotten a lot of things set up within its native storage such as emulation adding with a bunch of emulated games. However, i just purchased an OLED steam deck which is coming in tomorrow. Is there any way for me to transfer all of the data from my LCD steam deck over to my OLED one without taking it apart and switching the internal sd?

  • charge2way@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Is there any way for me to transfer all of the data from my LCD steam deck over to my OLED one without taking it apart and switching the internal sd?

    Yes, there are several ways to do this. In increasing order of difficulty they are:

    1. Swapping the SSD, although, as you said, this option is off the table.
    2. Cloning the old SSD to a USB drive and then restoring that clone to the new one. This requires a USB drive big enough to hold the image as well as 1-2 USB thumb sticks to boot from and run the cloning software.
    3. Manually migrating the local files over the network from the old Deck to the new Deck. This requires either using SSH/SFTP or a 3rd party utility to transfer all the files.
    4. Setting up the new Deck from scratch and mirroring everything you did the first time in setting up your old Deck.