Organising Downloads
Hegelian:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 June 27, 16:46:42
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 June 27, 16:02:42
Organizing an already-full Downloads folder is a painful and thankless task. The easiest way IMO is to rebuild it from scratch from your archived ZIP and RAR files (you do keep the files you download, right?).
Um, why? If you ask me, that's just a waste of space. You already have it on disk, and most likely backed up. Why save it in the original form as well?
That is the backup. Why would I back up uncompressed files when I have compressed originals? Besides, hard drive space is the least expensive thing in my PC, other than the floppy drive. If I need more room, I can copy the archived files to DVD (because I don't do my tape backups often enough). If I have only one hard drive, I can add a 250GB SATA 3 drive for US$70, and improve my Windows performance by moving my paging file to the new drive (this is just an example—I'm actually running three 36GB SCSI drives and my motherboard doesn't support SATA). Furthermore, the filenames of the actual items are frequently most uninformative, and the ZIP or RAR may include useful readme files or images. Also, the original archive files may contain more than one game item (and if they don't, I often create a single multi-item ZIP to replace a bunch of releated single-file zips).
Finally, stuff isn't available online in perpetuity. By keeping the original archive files, I have a repository of items that are no longer available on the Web.
Preserving digital information is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge :P
Arina:
It doesn't have any bad effect. It slows it down slightly because I think it compresses it again (although it's already been done), but it won't hurt anything.
Make sure to split your downloads into folders and do one folder at a time. It seems that people have had problems running the whole downloads folder through at once.
(I generally put a 'new' folder in each creator folder when there is something new and, once I've checked the stuff, I just compressorize that folder. :))
Dbnguy:
Thanks Arina. You obviously have used this thing often with no problems :-)
You suggest me doing it, if Space isnt an issue for me?
I have all my "My documents" on 120 gb drive, which is still 80% free, then all the my programs etc on my C drive.
although the way Im going, I will probably fill it up sooner than I think. Ive only had Sims 2 for a few weeks now, guess you could say Im still a downloads Virgin in comparisson to most of you guys out there Hee Hee Hee
Zazazu:
When I go on a major download spree (and I'm about to) I just save my downloads onto a dummy account's download folder. It has just one 'hood, no townies, only one sim, only one lot. I can then quickly see only the new content and make sure the preview images weren't super-photoshopped (seriously, people, don't do that...if it's crap then let everyone see that it's crap). If it passes, I move everything onto my main account. Since I'm sitting at 1.47 gigs of custom content now, sorting through for new stuff is a pain in the ass, and often I don't remember what I got three minutes ago. The new shiny negates the memory of the less-new shiny.
And I see, Hegelian. I thought it was in addition to the backup. I prefer just backing up my compressed organized folders (I put them on my D drive with has loads of space...I figure if my comp gets zapped despite my surge protectors and I lose even the backup, such is life...I've been through it before and all my program files are backed up on disk) but I understand where you are coming from.
Dbnguy:
Tx Zazazu, thats atually a perfect idea.
Ill create a hood, with ONE very basic house and use that one to test all them in....
Like you said, sometimes the DL dont look that great once they are in the game...
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