Alright, 'fess up!

[AnthonyK]

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.

I had all my stuff sorted into subfolder for a while, but then it got to where I'd forget everythign i had installed. As the folder grew, it took the clean install longer to look thru everything to find the dupes. It would be nice if when you installed with the Clean Installer that it'd also check subfolders for a package. (maybe it does and I'm just a noob) But, I'll end this here, because I don't want to start an off-topic discussion about the clean installer. heh.

[LilAbner]

And I thought I had problems! My downloads folder is 3.15GB. I thought that was ALOT, but I'm glad to see that I'm not the worst! 

[TaWanda]

. (maybe it does and I'm just a noob) But, I'll end this here, because I don't want to start an off-topic discussion about the clean installer. heh.

Well, you are new aren't you  Reluctant to start on an off-topic discussion? Pshaw, it's a way of life here. Feel free to discuss whatever you want in any thread you want. The rest of us do

[ZiggyDoodle]

128MB, 479 files.  Small, I guess, but I've got maybe 100 things I haven't installed yet.

I just wish we could ditch the Maxis crap that we don't use, especially the bad "fashion."

[stormygsa]

Wow!  I don't feel so alone now.

I have 1.84 gig with 7,890 files - quite a few of them are hacks and hair files.  If I ever figure out how to bin my hair, I could probably lose a gig.   

[Sita]

3.75 Gig  and 10,381 files. Been on a bit of a spree lately, I need to prune. I am relieved to see mine is not the biggest!

 

[Jysudo]

Question for those with 2GB worth of downloads and above:

What are your loading times ? As in from the loading screen to neighbourhood view?

[Verona]

I've got 1.96 GB of cc and it takes about 5 or 6 minutes to get to Pleasantview.

[Dea]

Files: 9006   Total Size: 2.35GB

[Onion Girl]

My entire downloads folder is 1.69 GB. That includes all hacks, objects, clothes, hairs etc etc.

I wish I'd been more anal and neurotic when I'd started downloading, now I don't know what's what unless it has a specific name, thank god hacks do. I now have a special folder all for them! Yay!

[nikita]

As of right now...*checks* 5.36 gb and 19,803 files.

It takes me about 10,11 minutes to go from cd tray to actually playing a house.  I plan to prune it down to 3 gigs hopefully before the next ep comes out.  Hopefully.

[VyeOlin]

870 mb for me.  Time for cleaning methinks.

[greeneyedsims]

1.9 GB

10,440 files, 972 folders

Question for those with 2GB worth of downloads and above:

What are your loading times ? As in from the loading screen to neighbourhood view?

It takes 4 mins. for it to get from loading to neighborhood view.

--green

[blubug]

7.79GB. 41,587 files, all in subfolders and sub-subfolders, very neatly organised. I wish my house was this tidy. More than half of it is recolors though, and when I take all the recolors out, the game loads in 7 minutes, with the recolors in, 35 minutes. I'm getting rid of more than half of the recolors now, doing it since last week I love having a lot of stuff, in real life I can't possibly afford all that.

[ZiggyDoodle]

While we're talking about this stuff, how much space on your hard drive is taken by TS2 and the EPs?

I freaked the other day when I saw that I'm using about 54 percent of my 80 gig HD - I use that computer essentially for TS2 and my financial matters and not much else.

[witch]

Not too bad

Prog files = 5.7Gb
Mydocs = 3.31Gb
Sims2folder with backups = 7.12Gb X 2 'cos I save it on two hard drives

Total 23.25Gb

Plus I cleaned out about 20Gb to DVD last weekend.

[lemonfresh]

Downloads folder: 6.39 GB
SavedSims folder: 3.69 GB (contains meshes, skins etc.)

There's a reason I needed to buy a new computer to play Sims2.

[Meek_Monkey]

OK I think I said mine was 3gig it only takes 5-6 mins from desktop to playing a lot not to bad.

[Syera]

695Mb.  Phew.  How'd it get so... big?

[kacidama]

1.22gb - I am a download junkie and I must find time to subfolder one of these days:-[

I spend more time lurking here than playing - I wish I was awesome so I could join in more

[Jysudo]

695Mb.  Phew.  How'd it get so... big?

That's not big. Its puny ...you need more.

[yetyak]

Ok, Jysudo, just for you I went back into my files for my "real" game that had the tons of downloads.  I might have missed a few, but it was at least 8.5 GB... It took about 8 and a half minutes to get from click the icon to choose the neighborhood.  That is what made me decide to weed the downloads into separate games.  All the variations of my game seem to load at the rate of a minute per GB of downloads. 

And just to show how much of a download whore I truly am, I have one partition with nothing but sims stuff on it: uninstalled downloaded objects, houses I haven't installed yet, the compressed files of every house I ever downloaded (all 2200+ of them) and all the backups from installing new EPs.  Oh, and all the versions not currently playing.  That is 15.6 GB of valuable stuff....

[Rose Outlaw]

That is what made me decide to weed the downloads into separate games.  All the variations of my game seem to load at the rate of a minute per GB of downloads.

*/me thinks that's a brilliant idea to copy*

Sorry for being nosy ... do you practically use a different Windows account for each "downloads theme" or how did you do that separation?
How long did it take to sort all downloads for each game?

At the moment, I collected 408 MB of meshes and hairstyles, 27.8 MB of hacks/bugfixes/annoyance fixes etc and about 4.5 GB of the rest, overall about 20,000 files.
I seriously need to clean or start a-new.

[witch]

I rename the entire sims2 folder and the game just creates a new one. I have The Sims 2_current and The Sims 2_build

I just rename the one I want to play with to The Sims 2 and I'm away. You can have as many of those sims 2 folders as you like.

[yetyak]

I've got a separate folder with subfolders named real game, first alternate game, second alternate game, etc. and just have the whole EA GAMES folder for that version stuck in.  Then I just swap them out when I want to play one of the other versions.  There is also one called clean game for when I want to test something or get yet another version...