Alright, 'fess up!

[nectere]

99.4 MB too much. Its those damn default skins I made that takes up half that.

I have come a long way since my 5gig+ days, not to mention the other half a gig I never installed thats still just sitting there hidden inside so many different folders I never see it lol Although I am very slowly putting things back in but in a much more organized manner now. I dont think I can ever return to the 20 or minute load times though. My daughter still likes to play with the cc so she has a folder full and sometimes I forget to take it back out....drives me up a wall.

[flowerchile]

I have 420 MB in my Downloads folder at the moment, but I can see that growing as so many nice goodies are coming out lately...

[Nailati]

995.4 MB, and I still have stuff sitting on my desktop that I haven't installed yet.

The vast majority of it is clothing. I associate outfits with the Sims who've worn them, so I don't like to use the same one twice.

[witch]

995.4 MB, and I still have stuff sitting on my desktop that I haven't installed yet.

The vast majority of it is clothing. I associate outfits with the Sims who've worn them, so I don't like to use the same one twice.

Hey! Me too. Over half a gig on the desktop waiting to be looked at. My sims pretty much have their signature outfit for each life stage and I very rarely use them again. I didn't realise that, maybe that'll help with a cleanup!

[DrBeast]

Checked my subfolders volume-wise. Largest are Genetics (courtesy of custom skins) and Buy Mode (thanks to Cars), each weighing in at 400-450MB. I'm a car freak, I've downloaded all cars made by Bonus at MTS2 and VirtualJack et al at VitaSims. Their poly count is a subject best left out as I don't want poor Motoki to suffer a fatal stroke, aneurysm and acute renal failure simultaneously.

[witch]

Or piss himself! 

[yetyak]

I've probably got between 6 and 7 GB of downloads... after 3.5 GB the load time was 5 minutes and I decided that was too long. So I divided up the cc into different folders and use different stuff in different versions of the game.  The only things that are in all the game folders are the hacks and the hair.  With just about 1GB, I'm playing in about 90 seconds.  Much better load time.

[sin]

1.7 gigs.

most of which is clothes and hair!

[Jysudo]

Heh, SpringCleaning is just over. I have never been so diligent in Spring Cleaning before.

Now its 1.6GB with 6300 files. Most of it is paid content. I have little free stuff because I am so picky that any thing with poor textures and such get booted out immediately.

The game takes 2.5 mins to load. Sometimes when it feels happier, it is about 2 mins.

[mdrturner]

5.67Gb
17,510 Files - 1 Subfolder (Hacks)

[BlueSoup]

Oh my, you have nothing in subfolders?  I would go mental with a Downloads folder that big! 

[mdrturner]

One day I will sort it into sub folders I suppose.
Is there an easy way or do I have to do it all manually?

[BlueSoup]

Yeah, Clean Installer from Mod the Sims.

Scan the downloads folder, then click on the "type" bar at the top, which will sort it into type of file.  Click on the first of a file and move your mouse down a good ways, press shift + click on another file (of the same type), and right-click, move to selected subfolder.

Takes a few minutes.  Well, ok, it may take you a bit longer. 

[mdrturner]

Thank-you very much.
Um - dumb question time: Does doing this affect loading times? Mines at about 10 minutes now.

[mdrturner]

Done in under 2 hours. 
5.67 Gb
17,510 Files
22 Subfolders.
Looks a lot tidier.

[Simsbaby]

How did you chose to sort yours?

[mdrturner]

I just used the headings that came up under Clean Installer.
So, if it said "Object recolour" then that's what I called it.
The only exception to this was the custom foods as they were labeled as careers.
Things that didn't have a type were just put in a subdirectory that I named Unknown.

[Nec]

Oh, I forgot...my other windows account has a 1.12GB downloads folder, though about 50% is the same as my other one. 

[Indiasong]

3.95 gb, and 5gb for the object folder. I feel bad now.

[BlueSoup]

It's usually meshes and some other stuff (stairs, fences, etc) that won't have a description.

[Emma]

Mine has 444MB worth of downloads in, mostly hair, clothing and makeup. (Oh and relevant meshes to said hair and makeup)
I have a few objects in, but not much. My game loads almost immediately.

[kasumiarmstrong]

Wow, reading these posts make me want to go clean out my downloads folder! 

[AnthonyK]

How big is your downloads folder?

57MB atm, but, there is a lot of stuff in there I don't want. Most of the content that is staying is mods, such as the ones provided here. The rest is new clothes for the sims. The problem I forsee is, I just re-installed all the seems like 2 weeks ago and my folder is already this large. I see so much stuff I want to check out! LoL! I think i spend mroe time reading, searching and downloading than I do actually playing.

[Nailati]

I think i spend mroe time reading, searching and downloading than I do actually playing.

I had that problem with TS1. I'd happily download for hours a day, but I never felt like installing the stuff or sitting through the load time. It was ridiculous. With TS2 I'm more efficient about downloading, but now I spend more time building houses and making Sims than actually playing, which in my mind is a milder form of ridiculous.

[miramis]

Mine is at 591mb with several sub folders.  It's several folders deep in places since I've started sorting.  I haven't gotten around to properly sorting my objects yet though.