Organising Downloads
nekonoai:
When I started a few months ago, I had over 15gigs of stuff in JUST the objects folder. My game took almost an hour to load. ;)
I pretty much put everything into folders by alphabetical order, and then ran the simcat on each folder, moving things that I wanted to the real sort folders [by kind of object], and deleting stuff that just looked plain fugly. Ignoring the purple question marks.
Then I'd load game, scroll through a certain section of objects [like all surfaces, for example]... then quit game and do the sim cat again... repeat... XD Took me a solid month and a half, but now I'm down to about a gig and a half of objects that I actually USE, nicely sorted... and a 'new objects' folder for stuff I download and want to try out. A lot of stuff just doesn't make the cut with me. If I notice that I'm not using something ever, it goes away for good.
I don't keep zip files. I don't even back up my objects. If I lose stuff, oh well. ::) Hasn't happened yet thank goodness. ;p
Arina:
Quote from: Dbnguy on 2007 June 27, 17:30:58
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
It did seem to make the game load faster, after I deleted the groups.cache. However, I don't know if it's because of the compressed files or because I began using that tool during my clearout (1.2GB to 220MB... I feel all happy inside XD). I would guess that it's a little of both, because others have said the game loaded faster and I don't think they were all sorting and deleting.
I guess it depends if you have a problem with how fast your game loads. I've only got one (partitioned) 60gb drive, so space is more of an issue for me... but I also thought my loading times were too long, and the Compressorizer has helped. :)
Dbnguy:
then Compressorizer it is !!!
Guys thanks all for your help and, man oh man, super fast responses..... Was expecting to wait at least a day !!!!!!
Your all the best.
Thanks
Invisigoth:
I run the HCDU every so often (although I almost always know everything in my download's folder, what it effects, who made it, and what it does) and I keep my hacks seperate from my CC, but there is one thing that I do that no one else mentioned (maybe it's secretly bad and I didn't know about it). When I unzip my new hack into my Amods folder in my downloads folder I also rename the RTFM or readme so that it has the same name except obviously .txt or .rtf. That way if I do forget what a hack does I have the read me right next to it in the folder. I prefer to keep my hacks loose in the Amods folder rather than seperating them by creator which I know sounds insane but I make sure that I have the creator's name and website url in the readme. For CC items/hair/etc I sort by type and creator (Hair/InSim/Corrine for example) and include recolors made by other people in the same folder as the original creator of the mesh (with a readme titled the same with the creator of both the mesh and the recolor's URL just in case I have a problem with it). The hack sorting method might sound disorganized but it works for me. The only thing that I didn't think of is potential slowing of load times. The game probably has to look in those readme files even though it doesn't actually use them in any way. Still, I'd prefer longer load times because of a recent mishap. I couldn't figure out why one of my hacks wasn't working all of the sudden so I opened up my downloads folder and had a look. Within a minute I noticed one of my hacks had a readme but no .package file. I must have deleted it the other day when I noticed that I had unintentionally put some clothing meshes into my hacks folder instead of my clothing folder and then thinking about it I decided they were ugly anyway so I deleted them instead of moving them.
Zazazu:
Saving the RTFM's isn't bad. I don't do it, but that's because if I have an issue with an object/non-hack, I just delete it, and if it's a hack, I can get the RTFM again here. I'd put them in another folder though---not under Sims2.
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