How to find your Garry's Mod Folder and the GMad/GMPublish programs

garrysmod-folder.md

How to find your Garry's Mod folder

1. Open Steam
2. Right click on Garry's Mod
3. Select Properties
4. Select Local Files
5. Click Browse

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How to find gmad/gmpublish

1. Open the Garry's Mod folder (follow the steps above)
2. Go to the bin folder
   • Within this folder, you should find gmad.exe, gmad_linux or something similar on Mac.
   • You should also find gmpublish.exe, gmpublish_linux or something similar on Mac.

How to find your addons folder

1. Open the Garry's Mod folder (follow the steps above)
2. Go to the garrysmod folder
3. Go to the addons folder

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On Windows, your paths may look like the following:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\gmad.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\gmpublish.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons

On Linux, your paths may look like the following:

• /home/badger/gmod/garrysmod/bin/gmad_linux
• /home/badger/gmod/garrysmod/bin/gmpublish_linux
• /home/badger/gmod/garrysmod/garrysmod/addons

On Mac, your paths may look like the following:

• /Users/Badger/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/garrysmod/bin/gmad_mac
• /Users/Badger/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/garrysmod/bin/gmpublish_mac
• /Users/Badger/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/garrysmod/garrysmod/addons

nuh uh, after an update the location of addons have changed and now they are now located in

"Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\4000"

And also, each folder now is represented by Addon's ID instead of mods name, frickin usless, i hate this change

Ah yeah.
They moved workshop addons to that folder a while back.

The paths above are still useful for developing addons.

But to extract workshop addons, you will need to look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\4000 for the addon's file ID.
E.g. The addon https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1796051616
Has a file ID of 1796051616 (the number at the end of the URL)