Why is the folder to this game so big?
I just checked my Sims 3 folder, and it's 37 GB. Ridiculous! What is making this folder so big?
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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.
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.
