Steam downloading an unsubscribed mod

According to this and my own experience removing mods , the files are not actually removed. They still exist in the games folder. You have to go in and manually remove them yourself. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Does unsubscribing from a Workshop item delete the mod files? You'll have to use the file manager to find your games in the Steam library and manually delete the files that contain the mods you don't want.

That game's "Properties" window will open. Navigate to the addons folder inside the game folder. If you are using the Steam computer client, you can click the Local Files tab from the "Properties" window that you navigated to in the previous window and then click on Browse Local Files.

Your file manager will open in the main game file, but you'll still need to locate the mods or addons folder. Right-click the. Mods or addon packages usually end in. If you have more than one mod per game, you want to delete the one with the name that's similar to the mod name. If you can't tell which is which, you can delete all of them since the ones you are still subscribed to will be automatically re-downloaded once you restart the game.

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Developer: Rare Ltd. Publisher: Xbox Game Studios. Garry's Mod Store Page. Global Achievements. Seismonov View Profile View Posts. My GMod keeps downloading two addons which is actually have been updated, and it happens to be a random occurence. At most it will redownload every two or three times I launched GMod.

I'm currently unsubscribed to the addons, but it's still redownloading itself from the Workshop, and it has been the fourth time it redownloaded itself. A note, this problem has been around for around 3 months for me. Does anyone have this problem as well?