How big is your mods folder?

My mod folder is currently 5.4gb. But that's *sooo* much smaller than the one I had for TS2! For TS2 it was more like 12gb.

I suspect that my folder size does slow things down a bit. That's why I'm using Sims 4 Studio to delete the colors of my cc that I won't be using anyway. (But I haven't finished that process yet. But I know that my folder had more than its current 5.4gb before I started the process. I've also considerably decreased the amount of CC I've been downloading.)

2.7 gb. Trying to keep it down, and thought I had failed, but that was before reading this thread, LOL.

"KatAnubis;c-17718862" wrote:
My mod folder is currently 5.4gb. But that's *sooo* much smaller than the one I had for TS2! For TS2 it was more like 12gb.

I suspect that my folder size does slow things down a bit. That's why I'm using Sims 4 Studio to delete the colors of my cc that I won't be using anyway. (But I haven't finished that process yet. But I know that my folder had more than its current 5.4gb before I started the process. I've also considerably decreased the amount of CC I've been downloading.)

I do delete swatches, too! I'm always happy to see the creator was generous adding lots of variation, but I know I'll use each item in only a handful homes, and I normally get rid of 50% of the options before adding the item to my mods folder.

Also - be aware that some file names will cause lagging! The game takes longer to read []() and space, and all other special character. When I adjusted all filenames I experienced the in game catalog worked faster. So many creators start the file name with "" probably not knowing it's harder for the game to read.

Here is what my computer tells me: 43,688,092,794 bytes (43.8 GB on disk) for 10,829 items.
:scream:

This much of it is CAS: 37,799,193,832 bytes (37.9 GB on disk) for 6,963 items.
:scream:

With part of my hard drive Bootcamped, I only have 396 GB storage for every single thing on the part of my laptop storage that I regularly use. This means that more than ten percent of my regular in-use computer storage is just mods.
:scream:

25GB. It's about to get heavy and freezes a lot.

I didn’t know we could change the file names? Can we just rename them and have them still work no issues? (Idk why I thought we wouldn’t be able to)

"shanls96;c-17721599" wrote:
I didn’t know we could change the file names? Can we just rename them and have them still work no issues? (Idk why I thought we wouldn’t be able to)

You can definitely change them, but I wouldn't recommend it if you have many. By keeping the original names, I can Google them when I forget what they are or who created them, and I can quickly find a mod in my folder that needs to be updated after a patch because it has the same name.

@shanls96 you can use BulkRenameUtility to make renaming files easier.

I simply remove symbols, characters that aren't letters or numbers, and spaces. Here is a link:

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

I rename files before I put them in my Mods folder. Doing this makes it easier for your game to read through all the files ?

12.6 GB 3,500 files. It honestly doesn't really seem that many in-game, since it's mostly CAS items.

My laptop runs alright. I don't notice a significant difference in performance. TBF, I haven't played without mods in quite sometime, so I'm not really sure how much better my game would run without them.

"shanls96;c-17721599" wrote:
I didn’t know we could change the file names? Can we just rename them and have them still work no issues? (Idk why I thought we wouldn’t be able to)

One more thing: Don’t change the extension (the part after the period)! Then they will become unusable.