Why is the folder to this game so big?

Are you talking about your TS3 user game folder in Documents (this one has your added store and player made custom content, saves, mods, things the player adds and is flexible as to what gets kept in it) or your Program Files (x86) folder where the base game and EP/SPs are actually installed (not flexible)?

Save games for TS3 can really bloat. The game creates two copies for per saves. Ones a backup, and as a result you'll end up with a whole server room full of saves given time. I advise to delete backups of saves you don't play, or have backuped already on another hard-drive. Also use this save cleaner http://www.simlogical.com/ContentUploadsRemote/uploads/1532/ often and it should cut down on bloat.

Save bloat piles on a lot more if you have memories enabled too, so disabling that can slow the rate your save becomes the install size of TS2 with all its expansions. And it's really worth using that cleaner tool if you've been on vacation, played through a few generations. Or just using memories.

If you also play in a lot of worlds, the games world cache also ends up building up. Just Bridgeport alone ends up to 500mb for me. You CANNOT delete these if you play on MAC, but if you're on Windows it's perfectly safe.

Also clean out your recordings and screenshots often. Especially if you play on a larger monitor and have videos set to play sound and uncompressed size. They build up in size scarily fast.

Ah, and featured items. All the icons for store content that gets advertised is created sometimes. You can clear these out, but they always tend to come back, so I recommend setting the FeaturedItems folder to read only to rid of these for good.

That *should* be everything I know of.

Overall. If you have a second hard-drive with lots of space, make backups and send your screenshots there frequently. If not. Throwing out the featured items, screenshots/videos you don't want and clearing cache should give you some space back quickly, especially if your as C spammy as I am.

"igazor;c-18004241" wrote:
Are you talking about your TS3 user game folder in Documents (this one is has your added store and player made custom content, saves, mods, things the player adds and is flexible as to what gets kept in it) or your Program Files (x86) folder where the base game and EP/SPs are actually installed (not flexible)?

The one inside the My Documents folder.

@wolfkomoki1 - That's the one you actually have control over. So if you take a look, which sub-folders are accounting for the file bloat? Is it your Saves (possibly too many or too many bloated saves), DC Cache (lots of sims3pack content), Mods (package based content), World Caches, DC Backup (expendable if you don't wish to share things you have created on the Exchange except for the one small ccmerge file), something else in there?

I just checked and my own very carefully tended to TS3 user game folder is also over 30 GB. Players will have and need to have very different sized folders there depending on their playstyles, added content, and habits no matter how much cleanup they do on it.

I just looked at my save files. What the heck game?
https://i.imgur.com/tgDfyTL.png

Are those really all of your save files? I mean, the nhd files you are showing us are only about 35-40 MB each. That's like next to nothing. Saves don't really need to be Save Cleaned, for example, until they begin approach 150-200 MB or so, some of us wait longer.

What exact problem are we trying to solve here? Is your hard drive too small or running out of usable space to the point where 37 GB total makes a huge difference?

Yeah, it's eating the C drive, which I don't understand because the game itself is in E.

You can use Windows to redirect your entire Documents drive to E if you want. That's a good way to relieve stress on a too-small C drive (like 128 GB) that was really only designed to carry the operating system. That way your TS3 user game folder is still in Documents so the game is happy, but the entire Documents directory is really on E and not C.

"igazor;c-18004946" wrote:
You can use Windows to redirect your entire Documents drive to E if you want. That's a good way to relieve stress on a too-small C drive (like 128 GB) that was really only designed to carry the operating system. That way your TS3 user game folder is still in Documents so the game is happy, but the entire Documents directory is really on E and not C.

Okay why is there no location button?

We are talking about a Windows function, not a game function. Just follow a tutorial (like this one). It's easy.