We all know the "How big is your mods folder" topics, here is "How big is you screenshots folder"! I'm in the process of backing up my files for an eventual migration to a new computer and a look into my "Sims Chronicles" folder made me not exactly question my life choices, but it still was a little shock. Since 2016 I have saved (not taken) 38,163 screenshots in 473 subfolders. Sims 2 - 2 GBSims 3 - 197 MBSims 4 - 60 GBOut of these 60 GB are...47 GB - Rotational save 8 GB - Legacy attempts & Challenges and Landscapes5 GB - Also Legacy attempts & Challenges, but all related to the Villareal/Renegades premades (who are also present in the rotational save)Edit: Out of the 62 GB, 14 GB are pictures for stories, family trees and lookbooks. The rest is gameplay (although my gameplay saves often include story passages, too).So, is that as crazy as it appeared or am I on the lower end of screenshot collectors?

Wooooow omg that's a lot! I actually don't have that many because I do a routine clean out of screenshots. I may keep some special ones in folders but I don't want another out of control mods folder in the form or screenshots. ??

Am guessing that maybe a tenth of your count survives, taken the past 2 years or so.

@Enkischmidt, ahh, in that case my answer is "I have no idea" because I keep them mostly on Tumblr which, as far as I can tell, doesn't have a limit on the total of what you can post. The only limit is on how many posts you can do per day and what size the images can be.

A couple of GB for each game, I upload all of them to Imgur but I also keep a copy on my hard drive.

I don't keep the in-game folder full, and I regularly cull older shots that I don't really care about keeping, but the Sims 4 folder in my multi-game screenshot archive is currently under 5,000 shots and about 6GB. That's after converting the PNGs to JPGs, but even so they currently make up roughly a 10th (size-wise) of the archive, which is comprised of over 300,000 screenthots taken from 27 different games in all. The whole thing is about 64GB right now. If I hadn't taken the time to convert most of them to higher-compression formats that folder would've been... SO much larger than that. :open_mouth:

Forum Discussion

EnkiSchmidt

Hero

4 years ago

How many screenshots do you have?

We all know the "How big is your mods folder" topics, here is "How big is you screenshots folder"!

I'm in the process of backing up my files for an eventual migration to a new computer and a look into my "Sims Chronicles" folder made me not exactly question my life choices, but it still was a little shock.

Since 2016 I have saved (not taken) 38,163 screenshots in 473 subfolders.

Sims 2 - 2 GB
Sims 3 - 197 MB
Sims 4 - 60 GB

Out of these 60 GB are...
47 GB - Rotational save
8 GB - Legacy attempts & Challenges and Landscapes
5 GB - Also Legacy attempts & Challenges, but all related to the Villareal/Renegades premades (who are also present in the rotational save)

Edit: Out of the 62 GB, 14 GB are pictures for stories, family trees and lookbooks. The rest is gameplay (although my gameplay saves often include story passages, too).

So, is that as crazy as it appeared or am I on the lower end of screenshot collectors?

32 Replies

Kathykins
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
TS4 screens on external drive, 410 MB (which I understand from previous posts, is not a lot :D ). I don't have many shots from TS1-3. I never took many in those earlier Sims (including a lot from TSO). Biggest bummer were the ones from TS2, unfortunately I can't locate any of them. I had so many of my legacy family etc there.
MarioBabyLuigi
3 years ago
5,420, or 9.07 GB worth of them in the Sims 4. I also have a a dupe version of them that contains UI, also it's organized better too (it's a pain that the file names for the screenshots you save in the documents folder aren't dated properly so in terms of when you took them, they're all over the place as they're organized by month, and it takes my computer a moment to reorganize them by date).

1,269 or 2.45 GB worth of them in the Sims 3.

789 or 2.79 GB worth of them in the Sims 2.

329 or 424 MB worth of them in the Sims Medieval.

About The Sims Franchise Discussion

Discuss The Sims Medieval, classic The Sims titles, and speculate on the future of the franchise, including Project Rene.7,505 PostsLatest Activity: 4 hours ago

Recent Discussions

Happy 52nd anniversary of hip hop music 2025!
4 hours ago
12JEREMIA
Word Association Game
6 hours ago
Jayel-1
Change One Word Game
6 hours ago
Jayel-1
Bring back spin off versions of Sims
11 hours ago
maccers1997
Protect Rene...
2 days ago
punkrawk90

Forum Discussion

How many screenshots do you have?

Happy 52nd anniversary of hip hop music 2025!

Word Association Game

Change One Word Game

Bring back spin off versions of Sims

Protect Rene...