My Sims 3 taking up way too much storage.

@addalily  How large is the Saves folder?  How large is DCCache?  What about FeaturedItems?  Everything in that folder can be deleted: the files are thumbnails for store content the game wants to sell you, and you'll get about 100 new files each time you play.  Similarly, everything in DCBackup except for ccmerged.package can be deleted; you only need the other files if you use custom content AND upload to the Exchange AND want that custom content to be included in your uploads.

If that's not the issue, please go through the Sims 3 folder one entry at a time and let me know the size of any file or folder larger than 1 GB.  Please also let me know the current total size of the folder.

My Saves folder is taking up A LOT of the storage. My DCCache folder is taking up about 775MB. I go back to the FeaturedItems folder often and delete them so that isn't a problem. I've pretty much already deleted everything inside the folder that I do not absolutely need for the Sims 3. 

Other than the Folders I've mentioned in my past comment and this one, none of the other folders are taking up over 1GB. 

I'm going to go and delete some unused saves that I do not use and see how much that changes my storage intake. 

@addalily  Wow, that's a very large save folder.  What sizes are the files inside the folder?  (I'd love to see a screenshot, for reference, and especially in case this is new behavior for the game.)  Do you have memories enabled, or lots of photos and/or paintings, or do you play the whole town?  And I'm guessing your sims travel a lot?  The save folder will have an .nhd file for each world they've visited.

You may want to look into Kuree Save Cleaner to clean up the data.  I think the newest version may not work, but the older one should, and using it mostly just means you'd have to delete data manually rather than letting the tool remove everything automatically.

There are around 4 thousand items inside that save folder and from a quick skim of the folder, none of the files go over 1GB. I do not have memories enabled, barely any photos, no paintings. I've only ever played with this specific household and yes, my sims are adventurers so they do travel quite a bit. 

I'll look into Kuree Save Cleaner and I'll see how it goes.

@addalily  There should absolutely not be 4k files inside a save folder.  I have no idea how that would happen, unless the game is endlessly replicating some files instead of using the existing ones.  For a given save, there should only be three files plus two per world that the save has seen, something like this:

(That save was played for around six sim-weeks plus numerous vacations.)

Could you post a couple screenshots of your save folder so I see what you have?  Kuree Save Cleaner is meant to clean individual files, not delete duplicates, so I'm not sure it'll help here.

They're duplicates that go up to over 100. I have a couple screenshots of examples.

TravelDB has files going up to 285.

Meta has files going up to almost 2k.

France_0x0859db50ExportDB files goes up 150.

France_0x0859db50.nhd files go up to 50.

Evansdale County_0x00000000ExportDB files go up to 1.2k.

Evansdale County_0x00000000.nhd goes up to 150. 

And pretty much so on.

1a5tf1l3.dat has the highest amount of duplicates (almost 3k). It's very common for my files to go way over 100. 

@addalily  I'm not surprised loading is so much faster: the entire save file gets copied into the CurrentGame folder when you load it.  Good to hear it's fixed.