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Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: The T on January 01, 2007, 09:45:55 pm
The size of my 'Downloads' Folder is 2.45 GB.

I think I am downloadaholic, but from a poll with this topic I made at my Minisite at TSR, I am normal downloader.
www.thesimsresource.com/artists/The T/ (http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/The%20T/)

This is the result at this moment.

I do not download.
0% (0 votes)

Less than 1 GB
33.33% (8 votes)

1GB to 2GB
16.67% (4 votes)

2GB TO 3GB
12.5% (3 votes)
 
3GB TO 4GB
16.67% (4 votes)
 
4GB TO 5GB
4.17% (1 votes)

5GB TO 6GB
8.33% (2 votes)

6GB TO 7GB
4.17% (1 votes)

7GB TO 8GB
0% (0 votes)

8GB TO 9GB
0% (0 votes)

9GB TO 10GB
0% (0 votes)

More than 10GB
4.17% (1 votes)


What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?

Tae


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Buffy on January 01, 2007, 09:47:46 pm
at the moment its 3.23 gigs....but it goes up daily


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: murfwithjess on January 01, 2007, 10:32:16 pm
mine is only 1.48 Gigs.. but i had to reformat only last week.. and i have been trying really really hard to not download everything...my last folder was just over 4 gig.....hmmmm


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Warlokk on January 01, 2007, 10:37:58 pm
Mine's currently at 1.07GB... but 99% of that is only my stuff, for testing.  My uninstalled downloads folder, with just the zip/rar files I haven't loaded yet, is currently at 2.93GB however.  If I ever get around to installing everything, I think it'll top out 5GB easily.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: MizPyro2U! on January 01, 2007, 10:40:28 pm
mine is only 507MB :) I dont download all that much


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: bungee_rope on January 01, 2007, 10:42:28 pm
2.70GB and counting


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Lupusdragon on January 01, 2007, 10:44:03 pm
I'm in the process of transferring all of my downloads to a new computer, but, compressed, my total downloads take up four 700MB CDs, well, 3.5  CDs.  If I had to guess, I'd say I have about 4GB of downloads.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on January 02, 2007, 12:42:49 am
At present it's 2.85GB. Before my last reinstallment it was in excess of 6GB, and there was just so much crap in there I had no use for.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on January 02, 2007, 12:46:25 am
Currently 652mb.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: The Mule on January 02, 2007, 12:48:03 am
5 and a half gigs....package files only....


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sleepycat on January 02, 2007, 12:48:27 am
622MB :lol:  *is very picky*


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dorkapalooza on January 02, 2007, 02:11:28 am
1.28  I had to clean out the files this weekend, I am running out of room...   Any suggestions?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Oprah on January 03, 2007, 06:10:12 am
It's something like 1.5 GB, don't know exactly because it's changing every day. I download a file, then find something better, delete the old file and put in the new one ... my status is "constantly organizing" :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Tenshii~Akari on January 03, 2007, 07:17:28 am
4.84 gigs and growing.  I need to update my sig because I've well exceeded 13,000 downloads.... :oops:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Poppenhuis on January 03, 2007, 01:52:45 pm
2.6 GB.
But, when Seasons comes out, I'm going to re-nistall my game and start anew with my downloads-folder.
The only things that will stay are the developments in the maxis family's, although I will have to change some houses back a bit.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: susaninsturgis on January 04, 2007, 11:12:24 am
How about a solution here. I have had up to 10-12 GB of DLs but that takes 45 min to load up etc. Right now running abour 4.5 Gig.So i'm impatient like smaller DL less load up time.. You see set up different DL folders for diff NH. If your like me I ussually play a NH till cant go anymore with or am bored. Save the DL in a folder named after that NH, in case you want to go back. Now go back and put some favorites in from that NH, COPY, and then some new stuff. So you try different stuff in different NH. Just a thought. Since Pets. I really have less bodyshop more object stuff, mostly recolors and some favorite sets.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: DLMulsow on January 04, 2007, 11:20:18 am
I don't know how to tell how many G is in the downloads folder... :(


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: seark72055 on January 04, 2007, 11:29:23 am
2.46 GB, I really try to keep my downloads cleaned up.  But I admit I am a down load junkie.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: seark72055 on January 04, 2007, 11:30:14 am
Quote from: DLMulsow;505060
I don't know how to tell how many G is in the downloads folder... :(


Right click on your download folder and highlight properties and it will tell you how big the folder is.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: xxJessicaxx on January 04, 2007, 04:54:08 pm
2.92 GB, it's a lot, but not as bad as it used to be.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Dinki on January 05, 2007, 05:39:05 am
Lately I went down to an unbelievably low number of 4,45GB :D Looks like I deleted half of my CC!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sam the T-man on January 05, 2007, 10:13:25 am
1.82 GB - about average, it seems ^_^


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: warhawke on January 05, 2007, 10:30:05 am
815MB - I keep editing them all the time. This is so far the biggest. Usually it's about 700MB.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: RafaelNunes23 on January 05, 2007, 10:34:01 am
3,38 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: MissDoh on January 05, 2007, 01:11:48 pm
A tiny 125mb.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Benny Boy on January 05, 2007, 05:55:00 pm
I just about fell over when I saw how big my downloads folder was. :P It is 2.25 GB with 7,652 total files.

:)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: xoJessi on January 05, 2007, 07:42:06 pm
6.07 GB (6,521,815,416 bytes)

Lovely isn't it and it still feels rather empty!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dachshundsr4me on January 05, 2007, 09:57:46 pm
Well I just redid my whole downloads folder and now it is only 2.75 GB. I am going to try to keep it under 3 GB. My last downloads folder had over 14,000 downloads in it and counting from years of downloading. Anyway I feel much better now that it is controllable and not crashing my computer anymore or making my computer reboot. It sucked though deleting it all and starting over again from scratch all but my walls and floors did I keep from my old folder. I couldn't take redoing that again. Could you imagine doing all the walls and floors again? OMG just shoot me in the head with that one.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Jenna on January 05, 2007, 10:33:54 pm
Mine's a measly 1.12GB at the moment. I rarely let it get over 2gb in size though.


Title: only 2.75g
Post by: Deeney on January 06, 2007, 02:29:37 am
Mines 2.75G but it takes my computer 5 mins to load a the sims2 from the beggining to when I can start playing.
6g ! Thats alot.
I love dachys too.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SnickyWhick27 on January 06, 2007, 03:27:32 am
I'm not sure how big my downloads folder is but I know it is larger than 3 GBs, because of all the massive downloading I have been doing since I first got Sims2 when it first came out, and since I got all the EPs and SPs and my new laptop where I have had to reinstall some things because of moving files over to a faster computer.  All in all, my downloads file is pretty massive, but I'm sure there's someone out there with a downloads folder even more massive than mine.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: y2krobie on January 06, 2007, 03:37:30 am
976mb~I try to keep it low as possable, with a total of 2863 files in that folder.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Squinge on January 06, 2007, 03:39:18 am
710 MB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Serafina on January 06, 2007, 04:07:57 am
Currently 6.5 MB 21,583 files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Squinge on January 06, 2007, 04:55:48 am
:withstup: wow that's quite a bit wench!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Serafina on January 06, 2007, 04:58:23 am
I know.... I need to do some major cutting in there :withstup:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: lavie on January 06, 2007, 10:54:54 am
Oh my that's a lot of files. I have 3gigs right now and I'm trying to avoid hitting the 8 thousand files mark, but its so hard to avoid downloading the new content coming out. I've had to restrain myself to only getting hairs, skins and a few really nice clothes. And I still plan to prune my downloads folder.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: El Pitufo Manitas on January 06, 2007, 10:58:54 am
4.96 Gb and 10639 files :h3lp:

It takes 15 minutes to start the game !!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nymphy on January 06, 2007, 06:19:27 pm
1.46 GB with 3,147 files, am going to delete some of my custom content so it should shrink even further *yay*


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Foxybaby on January 06, 2007, 06:48:45 pm
2.34-just deleted some stuff I've never used too! I think my biggest sub folder is 197MB-which is mainly hair.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: xoJessi on January 07, 2007, 06:28:53 pm
Quote from: Serafina;509089
Currently 6.5 MB 21,583 files


Highfives!!! Good job


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: oph3lia on January 07, 2007, 08:08:03 pm
Mines just over 2gbs at the moment and 3/4 of my downloads are out cos I'm sorting...they're about 4/5gbs lol My laptop can't handle anything over about 2gb though, so plenty of cutting to do lol


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on January 07, 2007, 11:33:30 pm
Mine's back up to 676MB at the moment, tho I'm sure that wont last long since I'll probly find more to download soon. :smt120


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: junkiebox on January 07, 2007, 11:41:16 pm
2.28 Gb with 6,021 files.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: baileybop on January 08, 2007, 07:25:28 pm
Oh dear, this again, I'm a download aholic trying to reform, and then the creators make something I just can't live without.
At this point in time I have 7 CD"s of saved downloads, and I keep them in different categories, Victorian, Modern, Western, etc and just replace my downloads folder depending on what mood I am in.
I have a computer I had built recently just for the Sims, but I still found the game took too long to load with all my downloads, so I categorized them. I'm not sur how big my downloads folder is because when I try to find out, I get a message sayiing over
# of gigs


Title: How many things have you downloaded?
Post by: Dread on January 30, 2007, 08:11:10 pm
1266 Downloads in Downloads alone. That includes sims2packs, and RAR's. I have other things as well, such as downloads in SC4Terrains and on desktop. How many downloads do you have?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AxelVal on January 30, 2007, 10:03:24 pm
877.8 MB currently.
It may not slow down the game much, but when you have it on high-res for picture taking it can get pretty annoying and glitchy.  Macs aren't really meant for gaming.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Disco Dancer on January 30, 2007, 10:15:49 pm
1.52 G, and 4,525 package files, and that is not counting the numerous other things that are on another cd. But currently I can't download until Feb 8th :sad4: That's when the broadband ticks over.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: junkiebox on January 30, 2007, 10:24:25 pm
7,424 files and 3.01 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Micco on January 30, 2007, 11:16:57 pm
13,002 files, 204 sub-folders, occupying 5.08 GB of space. I really should do something about all those zeros ;)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on January 30, 2007, 11:19:17 pm
DL's Folder: 691MB
Pets Paintings Folder: 19.8MB :happy8:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: spirit5 on January 31, 2007, 04:13:53 am
I have 3,18 GB - 8377 files.


Title: How big is your Sims 2 folder in your documents?
Post by: BionixWV33 on February 09, 2007, 01:45:33 am
Right now, mine, situated in my Games account in XP, is at 5.13 GB's, with 3.39 GB of that being downloads,lol.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on February 09, 2007, 05:03:43 am
At last count - 3.57GB. I'm getting into the habit of culling my downloads on a regular basis.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on February 09, 2007, 06:05:56 am
743mb right now.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sam the T-man on February 09, 2007, 02:48:09 pm
My Sims 2 folder is 8.2 GB in size, 2.6 GB being Downloads - I went on a blitz lately, but doesn't include things like SavedSims, Lots...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: cwf1701 on February 09, 2007, 04:42:53 pm
i am back to 300 mb. (a clean install of Vista after xp decided to play games with me). but i am slow to play on account that i had to fall back to the crappy onboard graphics until i get a vista ready video card.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Annette1955 on February 10, 2007, 12:31:52 am
Mine is sitting on 1 gig. Not too bad, loading time is only two-three minuits. However I am not really downloading much at the moment. I'm waiting to see what changes Seasons will bring.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Interviewithasim on February 10, 2007, 12:40:01 am
Mine is 1.88 GB in size, and 4,543 objects in my downloads folder...I use to have way, way more, but I deleted all the crappy custom content that I didn't want anymore...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Celia on February 10, 2007, 06:44:12 am
Ok, I'm feeling bad now:  7.16 GB.  Clearly I need to get rid of some stuff--I can't possibly be using all of this.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: cindy500 on February 10, 2007, 07:19:10 am
Currently 1.86 GB.  I try to keep mine under 2 gb, I see a difference in performance in my game after that 2.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Fercho on February 10, 2007, 11:43:44 pm
well, I thought my downloads folder was too big, but when I read some of yours, wow..... I got 6.25 GB now


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: lemondust on February 11, 2007, 02:33:54 am
...my downloads folder is 10GB! The game loads up in 15 minutes, which considering, isn't too bad.

Not much I can do about it, except to curb my downloading spree's from now on. I've deleted a good few things, and I'm sure there's a few hairs and clothes I don't use that could go, but the rest has to stay. :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Cinamun on February 11, 2007, 08:49:14 pm
holy buckets!!!
 
Mine is 3.57 GB and 8,053 files... I thought it was big but I guess not LOL
All this means is there is always room for more Downloads! YAY!
I'll have to see how long it actually takes to load up the game.. I never timed it.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on February 11, 2007, 09:24:25 pm
Back up to 767mb.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: timberwolf73 on February 11, 2007, 11:34:38 pm
My downloads folder is 834MB. It will probably get bigger than that because I am always looking for new content. I only have the base game. :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Interviewithasim on March 03, 2007, 02:32:00 am
Okay my downloads folder like 2 hours ago was 5,361 files and 2.39 GB, now it's 6,854 and 3.00 GB, my dowloads folder is getting bigger and bigger everyday!:-P What can I say, custom content ROCKS!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ghettometalchick on March 03, 2007, 02:50:39 am
My downloads folder:
7392 files - 3.84 GB :p WACKO!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on March 03, 2007, 04:43:09 pm
2.65 GB - is that bad? I think I already have too much, considering I have the 3EPs and getting the next two next week. I've stopped downloading everything except lots now. I even need to delete the things I don't use (3 recolours of a sink, for example) I think it's a useful thing to do and can greatly improve the preformance of your game. For me, anyway!

Lol, now that I'm done preaching, I need to carrying on swabbing out my folder!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on March 03, 2007, 04:57:08 pm
Only 843mb right now.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: poisonedsodapop on March 03, 2007, 06:44:40 pm
2.24 gigs. Not bad I guess, my other space is taken by something else, I'm not sure what though. I guess I need to track down the space hogger one day soon.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on March 03, 2007, 06:53:02 pm
Just whittled mine down to 2.89GB. After installing Seasons yesterday I decided there were plenty of furniture objects and hair recolours which I just didn't need.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on March 04, 2007, 05:46:56 am
I think I can weed it down to 1GB after I install Seasons + Pets, but only clear out the redundant stuff.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: DulceMell on March 04, 2007, 05:51:48 am
3.26 GB... and I thought I had a lot :P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: thechicchick on March 04, 2007, 06:03:20 am
9.08 gb YES gb!! I like downloading more than playing :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on March 04, 2007, 06:50:10 am
Do you prefer to clean out your files in or out of the game?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Buffy on March 04, 2007, 09:24:36 am
Quote from: thechicchick;608996
9.08 gb YES gb!! I like downloading more than playing :)


uhuh, its just like shopping :D.
my folder right now is 5.21GB , 15,377 files. it needs a spring clean, i have lots of useless crap in there..


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ghettometalchick on March 04, 2007, 09:41:21 am
Quote from: thesock15;607854
It lags, then the screen turns blue, and after a few of the blue screens, it turns black, then shuts down.


You're not the only one with this glitch I'll tell you! You must have an Nvidia card then, eh? Here's a link to a Maxoid's blog who talks about this bug. There's a cheat that can fix it until they work out a better solution. :) I've had the EXACT same problem, and now my game doesn't crash anymore when I use the cheat. But still, I hope Maxis fixes the problem completely soon.

http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/blog.php?user_id=3104068&date=2007-02

(It's the second entry on the page, near the bottom)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on March 05, 2007, 02:25:23 pm
Hope you fix the problem, downloading can be a bugg - an annoyance sometimes :dance: But I guess TS2 isn't worth playing unless you enjoy it, and who enjoys Maxoid stuff?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: lewisb40 on March 06, 2007, 10:52:02 am
I feel bad, 9.2 Gigs and I haven't downloaded anything since beoxs coats for the BB.  I need to clean mine out, but it says I have 32000 files. Lord, help me. LOL!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Dinki on March 06, 2007, 11:00:49 am
4.22 gb :brain:

About half a gig of that is stuff I downloaded just for contests, so after they`re over most of it says bye.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: manerova on March 06, 2007, 12:52:52 pm
Mine was HUGE!!! Though more than the half was stuff I never use so I deleted it all and restarted downloading. I'm crazy but now I know that I use everything and am not slowing my game down.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on March 06, 2007, 01:17:06 pm
Lol ^ considering doing that.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sableskye on March 06, 2007, 09:59:28 pm
i have just over 7.5 gigs of cc.   i know i need to get it cleaned up.  it just seems like so much work.  my game takes about 25 mins to load up, and i would like for it to be faster.  now that seasons is here, i am considering just starting over with the cc.  :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on March 08, 2007, 03:43:31 am
Mine's just over 3GB now; I removed my DL folder before installing Seasons, let the program generate a new DL folder, and gradually moved some of my CC back in. Of course, I had to do a bit of culling, as I am far too conscious of the loading time; currently it takes roughly 5 minutes for my game to load up.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SnipeRwolF808 on March 08, 2007, 03:47:55 am
Do you really want to know?
Let's just say that it should be called Boarderline Ridiculous (my friends say that my bra size is that too, JJ)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: PiperK1980 on March 08, 2007, 03:10:53 pm
14,080 @ 4.6 Gigs....Ok, I admit I have a problem and I don't need help! LOL!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on March 08, 2007, 03:30:28 pm
I don't have a problem...*looks around*...OK YES I JUST DOWNLOADED 30 HOUSES OF TSR! But it's just so purdy!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on March 08, 2007, 04:32:51 pm
I know I don't have any problems seeing as my dl's are only 867mb right now.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Frouwke on March 08, 2007, 06:54:13 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOO!

I put my downloads somewhere, deinstalled The Sims 2, installed it again, put back downloads (cut-paste), and figured it weren't working. So I deleted The Sims 2 again, AND NOW ALL MY DOWNLOADS ARE GONE! :( I feel horrible. .__. They're gone because I used "cut", and not "copy". I wish I made a back up. T____T

Is it gone forever? I mean, they must have put the stuff SOMEWHERE... But it's not in my bin. ;-; Seriously, I feel upset. :(


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Frouwke on March 11, 2007, 09:51:54 am
Lmao, I started redownloading all kinds of stuff, and I've got 3,6 gb again... :\


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Frog_Man on March 13, 2007, 12:05:57 am
like 15 gb

I deleted a whike ago, and now I only have......................................... 9 gb! yaaaaaaaay.........boo.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: barrydaddy on March 13, 2007, 10:06:05 am
94mb here but i have no insim in there but i dont think its that big a size, barry.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on March 13, 2007, 04:13:40 pm
Do you think I should just clean the whole darned thing out and start again?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: FeistyRedhead on March 14, 2007, 08:05:19 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/tlbutler70/toomuch.png)

I got a jones....


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Vannfam1 on March 14, 2007, 08:10:46 pm
I used to have 7 gigs :P now I have 500 mb :P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: csigirl27 on March 14, 2007, 10:38:49 pm
7.15GB :brain: I seriously need to clean it out.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Roxxy on March 15, 2007, 01:18:51 am
About 7GB here, game doesn't take too long to load, all things considered.  

I would like to clean a lot of it out, but until some sort of tool is available to do that a little easier, I just continue do random spring cleans of a few 100 files and stop.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on March 15, 2007, 02:46:23 am
At last count - 3.28GB. Seriously, I'm trying to restrain myself from downloading excessive amounts of crap which I'll probably never use! lol


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: bedtbug on March 15, 2007, 02:53:25 am
I have streamlined it down to 117 mb; just my essentials till I get new computer next week, then I will go nuts..or nuttier than I already am :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: csigirl27 on March 15, 2007, 11:10:32 am
down to 7.14 gb  :smt120  seriously how much of this makeup I have do I really need?! :brain:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: xxJessicaxx on March 15, 2007, 03:41:44 pm
1.43 GB, I went down. :P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: csigirl27 on March 15, 2007, 05:57:12 pm
I uh :scratch: somehow went up to 7.19GB :brain:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ladyfaenya on March 16, 2007, 06:21:28 am
Im not entirely sure I really want to know... I should go peek eh?

Well pfttttt im an ametuer downloaded XD 1.52 gigs (6996 files)

But Im gonna take that up some.. went on a downloading spree yesterday and havent installed it yet.

Though i had some clothes in my downloads prepets(i took out my downloads folder and made a new one) that I want back in my game lol Just need to find them o.O


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: mieley on March 25, 2007, 01:56:01 am
Mine is 4.49 GB and I don't download everyday but I do when I come across a new site I've never seen or when I catch the daily updates on this site.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on March 25, 2007, 02:58:39 pm
910MB Currently.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nightywolf on March 28, 2007, 02:30:24 am
lol! I remember how I would look at the size of mine (474MB and 1174 files) and think I had one of the biggest sims 2 dl file out there... :D I couldn't be more off, though I've recently been downloading constantly lol.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: jmtmom on March 28, 2007, 09:40:10 am
I topped out at 9MB!!! What a mess. I nuked the whole game and started over. I'm at about 2MB now, load times are really quick and I don't miss a thing.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: retrotrut on March 28, 2007, 10:04:50 am
3.2gb


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on March 28, 2007, 05:35:41 pm
914mb now.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: baybe95178 on March 30, 2007, 06:10:49 pm
1.16 gb..3076 files =]


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: xxJessicaxx on March 30, 2007, 06:24:44 pm
Ahh! 2.33 GB I went up.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: chahtah1899 on March 31, 2007, 09:31:58 am
I have over 17.9 gb of downloads. It's at such a critical point now i am no longer able to play the game. i just got seasons and only made it to autumn so far as it takes 3 hours for the game to load and able to play only slightly--mostly it's stopping for every animation.

Here's the thing. i have decided to unload everything as i don't even play most of the downloads i've collected.

so my question to the sims community:

If you had to make a list, what are the all time basic must have default skins, clothes and hair meshes, patches, blur removers, hacks you would have to make the game more interesting and realistic?

:blob6: :snorting:
thanks-happy simming


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tallsimsfan77 on March 31, 2007, 12:09:14 pm
Currently, it's a little ove 4 gigs, with around 10,200 files in it. xD No wonder it's a slow load for me.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Micco on March 31, 2007, 02:14:02 pm
Thanks to a booty binge I have now crossed the 16,000 mark (16,626 files in 238 folders) and am up to 6.65 GB. After my pre-Seasons purge I was down under 12,000; I feel so much better now :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tntmac fans7 on April 01, 2007, 12:45:23 pm
Good lord! I thought mine was big, but now it's just a whimpy pathetic 602.5 MB. 1,583 items.

But...um...Micco... How do you have your downloads in several folders? Doesn't The Sims 2 require a single downloads folder? :oogle: :sad1:

Yeah, I recently went on a downloads dump. I removed all the stuff I knew I'd never use and anything I haven't used. It releaved a lot of stress on my eMac. :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Micco on April 01, 2007, 01:06:25 pm
Quote from: tntmac fans7;659497
But...um...Micco... How do you have your downloads in several folders? Doesn't The Sims 2 require a single downloads folder? :oogle: :sad1:
One Downloads folder yes but you can have many sub-folders in the DL folder. It helps to neaten the clutter, well sort of.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: JustMilly on April 02, 2007, 01:46:03 pm
am at 3.16 gb.... 8,106files:angel:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Tenshii~Akari on April 02, 2007, 03:28:51 pm
7.26 GB.... with 20,043 files... and growing.  :bawl:  I can't help it!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AdmiralAeris on April 02, 2007, 03:47:56 pm
1.01 GB atm in my story/contest folder, will probably go down when I finish the new default skinset I'm working on (same skins I'm currently using there, just a different method)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Innocent on April 02, 2007, 03:53:00 pm
The most I ever had was about 6 gigs. Then I cleaned it out and ended up with just over 4 gigs. Then I installed "Seasons" , had some problems and lost everything. Including my own creations. So I now I am back to 1.5 gigs. I'm trying my best to keep it low but I don't know. The booty has so much stuff I gotta have. :( Oh well...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on April 02, 2007, 04:26:17 pm
966mb, 2,066 files.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Micco on April 04, 2007, 11:08:25 am
18,388 files, 270 folders, 7.28 GB - I downloaded over 1700 files in four days, I wonder how long it will take to start my game now :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Dragon72801 on April 04, 2007, 03:01:11 pm
4.59 GB in my downloads folder

Dragon


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sheol on April 08, 2007, 10:57:41 am
I've never been a download-holic (1Gb by far), moreover I lost all my downloads when I uninstalled "Pets", but it was OK as my game was running really slow. Now I've got 504 archives, 182 MB.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on April 08, 2007, 05:20:23 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/51303c84.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: mieley on April 09, 2007, 04:12:46 pm
Oy! I cleaned out my downloads folder and organized it with subfolders. It went from 8. something MB to 4.38. PHEW! I'm very proud of myself =). But, of course it's gunna be back up there pretty soon with all the downloading I do!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AxelVal on April 09, 2007, 09:28:27 pm
Back on page two, January 30 it was 877.8 MB.

Now it's up to 1.14 Gigabytes.
Darn you PMBD!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on April 10, 2007, 05:27:54 am
At last count...3.79GB. Every time there's a new Rose hair in the booty I have to go snaffle it, and it doesn't exactly help that I've downloaded all the pretty flower and garden sets from the Wood 4 Sims booty.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on April 13, 2007, 07:57:57 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/f4368cca.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: wyntersdarkness on April 13, 2007, 07:59:59 pm
Mine's about 3.75G.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on April 30, 2007, 07:00:39 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/388e85c0.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SlinkyFoxx on May 15, 2007, 01:34:15 am
After a massive spring clean I'm just under 600 mB. How do you guys wait so long for your games to load up? I get impatient waiting the lengthy 3 minutes for mine....


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ToxicKitten on May 15, 2007, 11:15:15 am
currently 1.76gb


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AxelVal on May 15, 2007, 03:43:53 pm
Quote from: AxelVal;672765
Now it's up to 1.14 Gigabytes.


My folder recently had a bit of a growth spurt.
1.38 Gigs.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Hokieman on May 17, 2007, 09:04:16 pm
Mine is over 8GB.  25+K files and takes over 30 minutes to get to a lot.  Really wish someone would write a program like there is/was for Sims 1 to compress lots of files into a single file.  Would really speed loading.  Course before it would be useful, you'd have to clean up the downloads folder which is a problem in itself.


Title: Fem Clothing
Post by: n0mki on May 17, 2007, 10:22:46 pm
Over 5  meg

But they look

FATABLE  ALL


Hot lez

n0mki


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: junkiebox on July 05, 2007, 03:16:36 am
6.36 GB

14099 files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Missaldith on July 05, 2007, 03:21:49 am
8,27GB and 23.369 files

It would be nice if there was a compressingprogram so the game could start up quickly. It takes almost 30 minutes and I will not get rid of my downloads.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on July 05, 2007, 04:05:30 am
3.27GB, and god knows how many thousands of files. I've compressed a great deal of the files contained within, however. I've found that object meshes tend to be the worst culprits when it comes to beefing up the download folder capacity; I had a bed mesh from Avenida Sims which was over 4MB in its uncompressed state, and after using the Compressorizer it shrunk down to 210KB!! How amazing is that?

BTW, if you want the Compressorizer, it's here: http://www.djssims.com/index.php?category=21 (http://www.djssims.com/index.php?category=21)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Captain_Shepard on July 05, 2007, 09:24:30 am
680 MB -.- I'm a noob , maybe you guys could give me some links to download, I dunno, stuff xD


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: parimacla on July 05, 2007, 02:35:07 pm
Mine is only 425 MB as of today. Before I re-installed, my old folder was about 2 GB, and my game was crashing constantly-I couldn't even get to a neighborhood without it crashing. All I have is some default versions of skins and eyes, a few hacks, a lot of hairs, a lot of clothes, and some custom objects, wallpaper, and floors.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: midnightmetal84 on July 05, 2007, 03:18:17 pm
103mb 394 files...my computer seems to get slower at about 100mb (can't quite understand why cause I got more then enough room for 10g if I wanted...I'll never understand computers). So I constantly have to go through stuff and get rid of things if I want new downloads. All my downloads are clothing, hair, make-up...object recolors.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: KacoshiAjewl on July 05, 2007, 06:42:51 pm
hmmm lets see mine is!!!

694 MB XD not much, I'm picky about what I download mostly I get new hair. as of right now i like everything i have and dont plan on downloading more.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Mickey57 on July 05, 2007, 07:04:57 pm
I can never seem to get my download folder under control.  I wish someone would come up with a program that would detect all that you are currently using in your Sim houses and sims clothing and genetics and allow you to delete the rest.  I can always add the things back into the game if I need them, but it sure would be good to get rid of unused stuff and unused recolors of stuff.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: MixdCrysy on July 05, 2007, 07:10:33 pm
Now its 4.11 11,051 files but this was after all my cc was wiped out by "The Compresinator" a month or two ago. (sniff**sniff) I still have nightmares...

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

I searched the thread and CynaraBlade said she used and it was good. Im happy that no one else (so far) had to deal with the loss of 7.5 gb of CC as did I (some from paysites too). I actually came across it the first day it was posted on the site djssims.com. Best wishes to all who wanna try it though, I never will again. Cant deal with that much pain again, that much heart break ...(sobbing uncontrollably)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sesimie on July 05, 2007, 07:15:43 pm
I also want to delete unused downloads.....my folder is under control at 1.4 GB but i have to manually delete files in CAS or Bodyshop!!   PAIN in the neck because those programs don't allow you to delete multiple files at once.....also when you delete a custom recolor or outfit ......it goes back to the first thumbnailed pictureof the file........Talk about Frustration!! :(


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: timberario on July 05, 2007, 07:33:33 pm
sesimie i hate that too.  i use clean installer to delete most of the clothing in my downloads folder.  mine is way out of control right now: 4.54 GB with 11,341 files.  sheesh.  my game takes a million years to load and i want to punch it in the face.  i have a bunch of stuff that could be deleted im just lazy about it.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tallsimsfan77 on July 05, 2007, 08:54:17 pm
As of 7/5/2007:

5 GB/15,024 (or 15.024 for our European friends)


Title: Here's mine....
Post by: nappyme on July 05, 2007, 09:04:46 pm
My download folder is currently at this moment 3.31GB! I admit, I'm a "downloadaholic". I can't help it!!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Tomkat on July 06, 2007, 08:03:21 am
Mine is at about 4gig I think...I don't even know what half the stuff in there actually does...I just download now and then so its been growing since I got the game. I keep using the same stuff over and over again so I guess I can delete more than half of it, Im just to lazy to go through it all


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: KagomeKagome on July 06, 2007, 07:51:55 pm
As of right now, 16.6 GB (almost 50,000 files), and it loads in 15 minutes.  I don't mind.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: CynaraBlade on July 06, 2007, 08:01:37 pm
16.6GB? Sweet Jesus, what are the specs on your machine, especially since it takes only 15 minutes to load? Mine took that long to load when I had only a fraction of that amount of content installed!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on July 06, 2007, 08:06:48 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/downloads.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: fairyniky on July 06, 2007, 08:09:25 pm
Mine's currently 2.69GB. I'm obsessed with downloading, but I try to cut back...lol


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tumle on July 06, 2007, 08:12:25 pm
10.5 gb and 30k + files and no end in sight :snorting:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: wyntersdarkness on July 06, 2007, 10:13:25 pm
~5Gb...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dachshundsr4me on July 06, 2007, 10:20:15 pm
1.98 GB and that is after I have compressed the files. I have calmed myself down to where I do not download much anymore. I am still not sure if my files are too many. I have not tried to play my game recently to where I will know if it shuts down on me as it did before when my folder was twice this size.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AxelVal on July 07, 2007, 10:18:33 am
Quote from: AxelVal;727979
1.38 Gigs.


The last two numbers switched.  1.83 now.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: keifus on July 10, 2007, 11:33:28 am
8.6 GB and constantly growing.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: DannyRock on July 14, 2007, 01:15:23 am
5.43 GB with 11,828 files and still growing...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: unheardwisdom on July 14, 2007, 07:38:05 am
2.19gb and steadily going up


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: miros1 on July 14, 2007, 08:37:47 am
2.5 gig and holding...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: junkiebox on August 09, 2007, 10:53:48 pm
7.43 Gb, 71 subfolders with 16,167 files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: rebelmozzerella on August 11, 2007, 04:35:22 pm
1.73 GB. It was weird because it said 570 MB at first and I knew that wasn't right becuase I just finished downloading a file that was like that big (it was a large set). But it started climbing and ended at 1.72. It used to be way more.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Lucretia on August 13, 2007, 03:04:01 pm
7.12 GB, 20,793 files. That scares me. I thought it was was only 4 GBs! Now I'm trying to figure out what happened.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Osaga12 on August 13, 2007, 03:17:54 pm
Mine is 811 MB, after I compressed it and has 4,417 files.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Iary on August 15, 2007, 10:15:24 am
3.46 GB,i have a feeling the numbers will go up over time,soo many good downloads,soo little RAM *sigh*


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ClearSkys on August 19, 2007, 10:54:44 pm
937 MB~  is that good or bad? lol! and i got almost 4000 downloads! and 13 folders!

Im going to go custom content cleaning again... i shall start with all my hair.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sakrayami on August 20, 2007, 12:32:01 am
My download folder is now 2,56 GB.
6 260 files in 75 maps. I do not need everything, i often download stuff
for fun, but i can't use it all, so i need to get rid of some files.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: freewill on August 21, 2007, 01:09:30 pm
871MB, 2,016 files almost everyday it grows bigger though


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kitkinzo on August 21, 2007, 01:22:21 pm
mine is taking up 2.4 GB and steadily going up..


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: :BitterSweet: on August 21, 2007, 01:28:38 pm
1.30 GB so far ;)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: scalad on August 26, 2007, 07:09:06 am
3.94 gig. When I hit 6 gig I am going to do a clean out and delete stuff I don't use.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dachshundsr4me on August 26, 2007, 07:58:12 am
2.66 gigs. I am trying to control myself in the downloads department and make sure I clean anything out I do not use. I still have a lot of cleaning to do but I will do it in time.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: b_eagle8 on October 21, 2007, 10:15:40 am
4.94 GB I think. I'm actually very picky when it comes to CC.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on October 21, 2007, 05:28:09 pm
I had 1.05GB on 7/6, now mine is up to this:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/dlfolder.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TarynKay on October 21, 2007, 05:39:51 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/artest_world/AHem.png)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sjam on October 24, 2007, 12:03:47 pm
2.38GB :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Mel19 on October 25, 2007, 08:28:03 am
My Downloads folder is currently 2.75 GB. Not huge, not terribly small..


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: DannyRock on October 29, 2007, 12:18:14 am
7.77 GB and still growing...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: GossipGirl. on October 30, 2007, 05:34:23 am
Omg lolz... If I told you mine was 7.2GB, would that make it big? I think I need a clearout lolz. I get on Bodyshop, and find that I only use about 1/250 things I have lolz. Jees, I DO need a clearout.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: drsalvador on October 30, 2007, 06:45:29 am
1.26 gigs


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: jjjim on October 30, 2007, 07:19:39 am
Mine is 7.15. Gee swannyswish, your's is bigger than mine. :) Anyway a small trick for those who know as little as me about computers and files. I use Sims2Pack Clean Installer's 'type' catagories to seperate my downloads into files; clothing game object etc. Every so often I open the individual files with Clean Installer and scan through them. You might be suprised how many duplicate files you find. Delete these.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: thecookiejar on October 30, 2007, 07:44:48 am
Here's mine, I use The Compressorizer to help with the size and folders to keep things organized:

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff86/iamthecookiejar/SimsDownloads.png)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: jjjim on October 30, 2007, 07:49:35 am
Cookie, unless I'm reading it wrong, your compressed file is larger than the un-compressed. Mine is 8.95/7.15.
I just followed my own advice and cleaned out all the duplicates in my download folder. It is now 8.89/7.11. A start anyway.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: thecookiejar on November 02, 2007, 03:25:48 pm
Not sure why, but the size on disk total is always higher than just the size.  Even on "normal folders" like wallpapers or text file folders.  BTW...LOL...it's now:

Size:  3.52 GB (3,781,624,743 bytes)
Size on Disk:  3.57 GB (3,835,179,008 bytes)
Contains:  26,226 Files/187 folders

I got a BAD download habit!!  (takes about 15 minutes for the game to load up)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: msbella on November 03, 2007, 11:21:16 am
Size:7,86 GB

i like all my downloads :smile:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: retrotrut on November 12, 2007, 09:06:47 am
mine is 3.97gb but whenever I go above 4gb the game crashes :(
it also takes around 10 - 15 mins just for it to load sometimes it even crashes when loading :(


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Synerje on November 14, 2007, 06:06:47 am
Right now, it's about 700 megs, but it keeps getting bigger and bigger daily :P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Iary on November 14, 2007, 01:05:46 pm
After my old comp died on me earlier last month,i thought my CC would be less than before since all my files died along with it and i had to redownload everything back.
I was wrong.
6.06 GB
Sigh,guess the CC bug is still with me.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Line on November 14, 2007, 01:27:05 pm
"Only" 82,6 MB. :P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sumpsychochic on November 14, 2007, 09:51:05 pm
Holy crap. Why do some of you have so many folders in the file???
I have:

1.38 GB :D
4017 Files in 24 folders.

Not alot compared to some people here. I just cleaned it out. It was:
1.65 GB
4924 Files in 25 folders.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: unheardwisdom on November 15, 2007, 07:30:11 am
3.39 GB

..... i need to clean up now... lol


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Chinami on November 17, 2007, 01:02:49 pm
Mine's only 310MB! I scared to death that my computer will run slower, if my dad finds out that I downloaded that much stuff (which isn't alot compared to you guys), he'd totally freak xD


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sophiaa on November 17, 2007, 02:45:44 pm
First time I installed the game DL folder was over 3GB with a tone of files (and you wont believe how long it took my game to load), after virus attack and several hard disk formats, I reinstalled the game and my downloads folder was about 2.93GB. Now after recently being forced to reinstall the game coz of graphical errors *cough*BON VOYAGE*cough*, its down to a very very good size of 2.87GB with about 7000 files (and it still takes yonks to load the game) and im doing my best to keep it that way.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: moondawn on November 19, 2007, 06:18:45 am
4,23 GB, and my game takes forever to load too ;P I actually reinstalled a while back in order to start anew and only download the "absolute necessities". As if... ;)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Alegra101 on November 19, 2007, 07:37:22 am
Two weeks ago my downloads folder had about 8 GB but after I used the Sims 2 Compressorizer from DJS Sims it shrinked to the size of 4,5 GB. Loading time is still the same but the game itself isn't so slowly any more.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: monica92 on November 20, 2007, 02:53:00 pm
1,74 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Foxybaby on November 20, 2007, 07:42:58 pm
OK, jave done yet another clear out and been really strict with myself and have just gone from 2.86GB to 1.27GB with 8,522 files. Its taken 2 days mind you! They're all filed by website then by collection, so I just went back to the sites I'd got them from and if I hadn't used them, no matter how pretty, I deleted them. Turns out I'm a bloody magpie for shiny Sims stuff :lol:
 I haven't started up the game yet to see if its quicker at loading, but it only took around 7mins anyway, so am not too fussed, I just hated the lag on vacation lots. (and that was with a 2GB RAM!)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: erica_jean698 on November 23, 2007, 10:40:11 am
Mine is 1.86GB.  I think I need a twelve step program.  

Good job Foxybaby.  I'm always scared to delete things I've downloaded.

(I might just need this raw meat sofa, you never know I just might!)

Of course I'm that way in real life as well with everything else!  I hate to throw things away.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: monica92 on November 24, 2007, 03:21:46 pm
2,04 GB ;P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ísarah on November 24, 2007, 03:30:14 pm
I had in my downloads folder at one point more than 4GB, my computer is not "great" so it took about 10minutes to load the game. :-P A few months ago I went through and got rid of lots of big & not frequently used files (junk). My current total is a much slimmer 2.4GB.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Telizx on November 24, 2007, 06:24:34 pm
657MB.

I had to wipe out my comp two days ago.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: junkiebox on February 03, 2008, 02:21:29 am
Quote from: Junin;872078
7.43 Gb, 71 subfolders with 16,167 files


Deleted a lot of stuff and now is 885 Mb, 35 folders with 1744 files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: adalita on February 03, 2008, 02:52:19 am
12.7 GB (13,705,126,327 bytes)
42,221 files, 201 folders

I got tonnes!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: MaryH on February 04, 2008, 08:16:03 am
Because I have two drives, all my downloads are on a secondary drive, to save space for the game. Right now I have 507 MB (532,430,848 bytes), with 1,167 files in 92 folders.
Tiny compared to some here, but the game runs faster.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sierra117 on February 04, 2008, 08:17:05 pm
Myne is 698 MBs

1,931 Files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on February 04, 2008, 10:45:06 pm
Amount of CC: 115 MB
-451 actual dowload files (mainly Teen Female clothing, a lot of it underwear and sleepwear)
-17 pics of clothing
-9 readme files


And this is before I acutally have the game.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sean283 on February 04, 2008, 10:48:58 pm
887 MB
29 Folders
2248 Files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: shery00 on February 04, 2008, 11:50:14 pm
I dont know why I can't resist to download.I just reformat my download folder from 6.8 GB (last week) and now 70 MB only.:D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: KateTheSuperKat on February 05, 2008, 07:24:14 am
3.03 gig, and growing a little everyday. XD


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on February 05, 2008, 08:09:17 pm
hmm... right now, I'm not sure, since I'm moving them in and out because of some testing I'm doing. But it's been around 10-11 GB before... maybe even more...

when I was photoshooting for "Anna's Diary" my game took around one and a half hour to load, get into the neighbourhood, and into a lot. in the end, I let my game run for two whole days just to get it finished - because I couldn't move anything out that I might need....

now, I'm a bit more careful with what I'm downloading, and if there's pictures, I often take them also into the folder - so I know if i can just delete them, or save them somewhere else for when I'll need them. I'm trying to go on a halfway theme-based folder system. clothes, medieval things, and so on. if I don't need one folder, I can just move it out when I'm playing with some other lot.

when I first started downloading things I went a bit crazy. I had +-10000 files - unsorted - in my downloads and savedsims folders.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: MidnightTrain on February 05, 2008, 08:47:23 pm
6.73 GB
SO I am a pushover for clothes for my female sims ,autos,careers (over 80),and game mods


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: danixnarutard14 on February 06, 2008, 12:07:38 am
206 MB and growing more and more everyday -__-


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Hothnogg on February 08, 2008, 10:18:01 am
4.57 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: __medicinemanx on February 08, 2008, 04:07:44 pm
165 MB. I'm running on a filled up 4-year-old computer so I can't get millions and thousands of downloads like you guys, haha.

Though that'll probably go up soon.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Silver Arrows on February 12, 2008, 01:25:08 pm
Over 2GB before, but I've had a massive purge so I'm down to 1.58GB now, but for every item I delete, i find a new one to take its place :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: wake.the.sun on February 12, 2008, 02:36:34 pm
1.96 GB, I honestly thought it was bigger. My downloads (and my music) kill my computer.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: xTERRIx on February 17, 2008, 07:26:03 pm
3.92 GB :b


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ProvenVenus on February 18, 2008, 04:48:03 am
1.42 GB
3,580 Files :o That used to be a big deal, now it seems like a baby!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: winterglow on February 18, 2008, 04:56:32 am
1,71 GB
5000 files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: geezy33 on February 18, 2008, 05:04:08 am
My downloads are 1.05GB----- Savedsim folder is 405GB
I'm Cool ya Digg!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: leandor on February 20, 2008, 07:02:15 am
Ooooooh, I'm so ashamed! I've deleted loads and I'm now at 11.8g! Everything is all frozen up so I'm in the middle of deleting loads but I hate having to delete things, just in case I might need it! My biggest craving is for clothes and decorations for my houses, the little things that make a house real like light switches,plug sockets, nik-naks on the surfaces, all that sort of thing.
Plus anything to do with Christmas.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: msfortuknit on April 13, 2008, 12:52:48 pm
More then 10 thats a bit disturbing isnt it?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ProvenVenus on April 13, 2008, 02:44:33 pm
1.63 GB
With 4.5k files and LOVING each single byte of 'em!  :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ThatScaryChick on April 13, 2008, 06:09:57 pm
I have 1.58 GB at the moment.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: PegasusDiana on April 14, 2008, 06:37:41 pm
Since Freetime I did a deep cleaning on my Download folder. It is right at 1 gig and I've been doing good at keeping it there. I'm still downloading things. But now I have a temporary folder and that's where I put new downloads. If it's not used within 2 houses it's gone no matter how much I like it. If I keep any of it, I get rid of more of what I haven't used. I've set my limit to 5,000 files for as far as I'm willing to go with my downloads. I know that's a little more than a gig of stuff, but I'm setting a realistic goal I can maintain. Once it reaches 5,000 files I'll do another deep cleaning. Then trying to keep up with what I've been doing so it will stay at about a gig.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: lisfyre on April 14, 2008, 10:36:43 pm
2.92 GB
294 Folders
4395 Files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sarahkratos on April 15, 2008, 02:08:30 pm
My downloads folder is 3.99 GB.13.352 files and 452 folders.
And my game takes about 3 to 5 minutes to load.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SparkleSim on April 15, 2008, 03:42:56 pm
Oh my God!  This is crazy!  I was just about to start a thread like this and I just noticed yours!!!!!  That is sooo weird!

OK, I feel so ashamed!  Ok, "The T @ TSR", you think 2 GB is alot.  I am not exaggerating when I say my downloads folder is 8.31 GB.  I have over 25,000 downloads.  I just can't stop I have to have all the good stuff :lol:  SO, I'm really hoping somebody else can be up there with me, so I don't feel like a psycho.  I can't believe how fast my game runs with all these downloads! :D  

I Love custom content!!!!! :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: winterglow on April 15, 2008, 04:28:07 pm
my folder now contains: 2.3 GB for 6.003 files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: yeegreen on April 15, 2008, 04:30:48 pm
28 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on April 15, 2008, 06:03:58 pm
356 MB
--875 files

All of that is soon to be gone and redownloaded to nude thumbnails displaying for some of my teen female clothing in CAS.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: HollyD1983 on April 16, 2008, 09:00:02 am
Exactly 5.95 GB:angel:Yeah,I am a CC addict


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: qtpie3552 on April 16, 2008, 06:33:15 pm
I have 666.7 MB and I was so worried that I had too much stuff. Now that I see a lot of people have at least 2 gigs I feel much better! =)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on April 18, 2008, 07:53:50 pm
Since I just went back to playing Sims again, in BV, I now have only 136MB in my DL folder at the moment.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sam the T-man on April 18, 2008, 09:35:58 pm
Currently, with FT installed I have 5.57GB, 21,651 files... and that's not even my storytelling game! :angel: I just swing from paranoid hoarder, to crazy cleaner that ditches things only to realise it was needed, so I get paranoid again... >_<


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: playerbilly2000 on April 18, 2008, 09:46:32 pm
91.7 kb just one thing downloaded


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on April 20, 2008, 12:06:49 am
Quote from: maniac19642003;1216943
Since I just went back to playing Sims again, in BV, I now have only 136MB in my DL folder at the moment.


(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/markspics4/6e6beb68.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: discowhipped on April 20, 2008, 03:30:25 am
Mine used to be about 3 gigs, I was going to clean it out, then I just decided to scrap the whole lot and start over, with the exception a few 'essential' things. But I've just got addicted again. It is currentyl 652MB - a miracle for me!
However, the folder with saved stuff which hasn't been extracted is 1.54 GB

I noticed someone said theirs was 28 GB ??!!

Don't feel so bad now, but my comp is still slooow.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: aurorita_1788 on April 20, 2008, 03:48:25 am
762 MB.... I'm ashamed of my self... Everytime I download something, my game crashes and I have to remove it... but I'm starting to think it's my video card........ ¿What do you think?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimulatedDork on April 20, 2008, 08:51:32 am
^ I'd enquire into the video card because unless you download the same thing each time, or just download really unlucky things, it's more than likely that.

3.18 GB. I swore I'd never get back up to the 3 GB mark when I cleared out my folder last time :P

Related question : ~ How long does your game take to load?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on April 20, 2008, 10:16:21 am
I average about a minute going into the game and lots, a much better time than having the same amount of CC on my previous computer.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: daboogadie on April 22, 2008, 05:20:57 pm
I just looked in my old DL folder (in storage now because I can't throw anything away) 29656 files @ 11.24 gigs~it's now a safe and sane 2.54 gigs


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dlockett61 on April 24, 2008, 03:22:12 pm
I have 50,179 files.
16.3 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: gdayars on April 24, 2008, 04:08:06 pm
I recently pared mine down to 4.58 gigs :)

aurorita_1788 on the video card, is it a nvidia? because my old computer has a nvidia graphics card and it would blue screen and crash on a regular basis.  it started after seasons, but really did it frequently after bon voyage.  I had to turn useshaders off (I think it is boolprop useshaders false) in order to run it, but then I couldnt see bumpmapping or fish, so I solved it by buying a new computer.  I upgraded my graphics card in it, but now cant watch the tv with them instead? At least my computer is now ready for sims3.  Unfortunately, I am not totally certain that I will like the sims 3 now, unless they have cheats to allow us to turn aging off for households not being played at the moment or something :/


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TarynKay on April 24, 2008, 04:21:33 pm
4.51 GB, AFTER compression xD You don't want to know how long it takes to load.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: aurorita_1788 on April 26, 2008, 05:48:25 pm
I have no clue....:smt104 where can I check? and if so, how can I fix it????:jaw:
I would apreciate greatly if you could help me!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AlbinoBambi on April 28, 2008, 03:27:52 am
I have 1875 files in it, 2 folders and the total size is 477 MB. :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on April 29, 2008, 02:24:05 pm
right now, it's 19.6 MB (yes you read right - MB, not GB :D)

though I'm testing outfits and such, so I've moved almost everything out. I've got somewhere between 5 or 6 GB usually.

just took a spring cleaning on my comp, too. got out near to 10 GB's so now I've got more space on it :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ultravixen on April 29, 2008, 02:29:34 pm
Mine is about 11 GB at the moment, need to clean it out this weekend! :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Your Nightmare on April 30, 2008, 02:33:40 am
My downloads folder is 523 MB and my SavedSims is 1.29 GB ... I have more clothing and skins than anything :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: EKozski on April 30, 2008, 03:19:58 am
Mine is 870 MB.

Before OFB, it was close to 3GB.

Talk about cleaning, sheesh!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: April on May 02, 2008, 11:46:33 pm
2 GB sharp xD


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stargem2001luv on May 08, 2008, 08:22:27 pm
I just looked at the size of my downloads folder....22.9 GB!(its true,I'm not making this up)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ana-maria005 on May 09, 2008, 09:30:12 am
Well my folder is about 16 Gb and still growind......I am a download freak!!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sumpsychochic on May 12, 2008, 10:59:29 pm
1.62 GB
I did some cleaning out recently of files I don't use. The only thing I haven't cleaned out yet is recolors and MESHS.. I don't know how to find out which meshes I can delete because I don't have any clothing or items for them anymore... so I just left them all in there.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tweeter on May 13, 2008, 01:19:17 pm
Eeep, my current "game" download folder weighs in at a smidge over 3GB, my "I still want but not in my current game" download folder is just under 2GB.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: flavorpatty on May 13, 2008, 04:46:50 pm
5.72 GB, and still growing


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TashaFaun on May 14, 2008, 05:55:09 am
When I first started my downloads folder was a MESS. I had 3 gbs (3800 files) but a lot of it was orphaned meshes and crap I didn't use but couldn't get rid of as I didn't know how and they were name "vtyf4hbm_bvf45b.package".
Since I've learned to clean up, organize and use seperate folders I have maged to get it down to 697 mbs (1380 files). It took me two months of renaming, organizing, redownloading if I accidently got rid of something etc etc etc. NEVER AGAIN. LOL. Now I try to keep it at that number.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tweeter on May 14, 2008, 06:44:06 am
How do you go about tidying the download files?  They way mine is organised is by webiste - so I've got a HolySimoly folder, an All About Style folder, a Huge Body Builder folder, but then there's miscellaneous stuff that have come as part of a downloaded sim.  

I realise that I can delete, say an outfit from either Bodyshop or the CAS, but then isn't the mesh still in the download folder?  I'm sure I've got hundreds of defunked meshes that have no textures.  Any help and advice would sure be appreciated.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TashaFaun on May 14, 2008, 06:54:47 am
Well for starters get the clean installer via mod the sims 2 that will help you sort through a lot of the mess. In reference to getting rid of meshes what I did was get rid of everything I could not identify or recognize. It did involve re-downloading a few things from time to time but I got rid of SO much junk that was just fluff and clutter.

There is also Delphy's download organizer over at MTS2 that detects orphaned meshes and duplicate files (clean installer does this also). Personally I preferred my mass purging way LOL. It made me get rid of stuff that I realized I didn't really need and only kept the really nice/important stuff.

With organizing I don't have that many clothing files left (301 to be exact) so I just rename them to something I recognize (IE: AF_SpandexRecolours. I rename all the files associated with it as well so subsequent files get named AF_SpandexRecolours (2) etc etc) then throw them all in one folder titled "Clothing". For some people who have thousands of clothing files that won't work. You could do by gender or site as you already are.

My objects/object recolours I have in a seperate folder and then seperate folders in there for each section of buy/build mode. I also have a hacks folder and in there is where I keep files by creators.  I hope that helped in some way... even if it was long winded hehe.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tweeter on May 14, 2008, 06:58:47 am
Quote from: TashaFaun;1243795

My objects/object recolours I have in a seperate folder and then seperate folders in there for each section of buy/build mode. I also have a hacks folder and in there is where I keep files by creators.  I hope that helped in some way... even if it was long winded hehe.


So does that mean I can have sub-folders in my folders?  I never knew that.  So in theory I could have a All About Style folder and inside that I could have Adult Female Formal?  Wow!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TashaFaun on May 14, 2008, 07:03:36 am
Yes you could :) The only problem with stuff not showing up I've seen with sub folders is some CAS/Bodyshop stuff like blush and lipstick so I keep that in my main downloads folder. Beyond that sub folder to your hearts content! Example Downloads/Objects/Decorative/Paintings/New Meshes. I'm pretty sure its unlimited in what you can do there.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tweeter on May 14, 2008, 09:41:42 am
Wow! Thanks Tasha, I've only been downloading CC since the base game :smt120.  I think I know how I'll be spending my evening...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TashaFaun on May 14, 2008, 09:43:26 am
Your welcome :) Good luck!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ilovecigs on May 22, 2008, 01:03:40 pm
4,67 GB. I REALLY have to do some cleaning.. I have SO much stuff I never use. I've been delaying it for the longest time. This topic gave me a little strength to start doing it hahah :P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AxelVal on May 22, 2008, 09:16:05 pm
Quote from: AxelVal;812529
The last two numbers switched.  1.83 now.


Wow, that was awhile ago.
Let's see how much I've killed my game since then.
4.6 gigs.
Can you say "I'm stunned my game runs as well as it does?" XD


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on May 23, 2008, 10:04:14 pm
5.45 GB!

no wonder it takes at least half an hour to start the game... o.O
just as good I've gotten some new books to read, then :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sumpsychochic on May 24, 2008, 01:03:17 am
Quote from: sumpsychochic;1242529
1.65 GB
4924 Files in 25 folders.

Quote from: sumpsychochic;1242529
1.38 GB
4017 Files in 24 folders.

Quote from: sumpsychochic;1242529
1.62 GB


Those are the sizes I've psoted in the past.
I've done a tiny bit of cleaning up and reorganizing my files.
It's now:
1.60 GB
4,192 Files
34 folders.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: wake.the.sun on May 24, 2008, 08:09:07 pm
2.33 GB (5,165 files) for me.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TashaFaun on May 24, 2008, 11:33:22 pm
Well I did a fair bit of reorganizing and LOTS of condensing of files (using simPE to put recolours into one files instead of like 15) so the new tally is:
799 files
1.14 gigs
55 folders


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: EKozski on May 25, 2008, 12:58:07 am
1.37 gigs
4,758 files

and one folder because I'm using something to replace the default facial hair in the game.

I gotta figure out how to condense all my recolors.

I won't use sub folders, because my understanding is, that they'll corrupt faster that way.
I can't remember where I read that.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: samantha45455 on May 25, 2008, 05:33:34 am
692 MB
6,200-something files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: raindrops84 on May 25, 2008, 10:45:42 am
2.08 GB
8 255 files


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TashaFaun on May 25, 2008, 02:07:07 pm
Quote from: ekozski;1255153
I won't use sub folders, because my understanding is, that they'll corrupt faster that way.
I can't remember where I read that.


Really? Do you remember why they corrupt faster in sub folders? I'm an organization fanatic and I don't know if I could stand throwing them into one big folder :( This is the first I've heard of that.

FYI: to condense files open them up first in SimPE and "You have to give each MMAT a different Instance number. The Instance number for main color MMAT is usually 0x00005000, so give the others like 0x00005001, 0x00005002... to prevent resource conflict. Make sure only one MMAT is true for defaultMaterial." (from Lord Darcy). Then once they all have different instance numbers hit "New" then "Add". Add all the recolours for one object hit "save as" and you're good to go. I've been doing this all weekend lol.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ark_Sky on May 25, 2008, 02:24:41 pm
5.20 GB
....whoa. I seriously have to clean up some more...XD;;
like theraven...no wonder may game takes so long to load...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AllenABQ on May 26, 2008, 11:21:53 am
I just started up my game last night after a long haitus. I'd forgotten it how long it took the game to load. I know I have a couple of gigs in the downloads folder. I think it took about 40 minutes before I was at the neighborhood screen.

And that's with a "recommended" ATI graphics card, 2GB of RAM, and a single 3.2GHz processor.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: veralex on May 26, 2008, 02:51:47 pm
Estimated 4,8 GB alltogether in different NH, the largest has 1,6 and all are still rising. My old comp(1.8/512) needed 20 min to load :sleepy2:, but i got a new one too...:D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: hopefullamnesia on May 26, 2008, 07:01:09 pm
LOL I got 4.91 GBs....over 17,000 files!

....and that doesn't include the stuff I downloaded today :)

And I just finished cleaning out my folder, too! I can only imagine how big it was before...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: TheISZ on May 29, 2008, 05:18:44 pm
:shock: I have 8.8 gigs of downloads and it takes about 25 minutes to load. Yep, one of these days I need to do some cleaning up...one day.

I also have 29,817 files in 1339 folders.  Great goggly moggly!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ~Aussie on June 03, 2008, 04:47:11 am
:-o holy mother of god, 8.5 GB and 25 minutes to load?...you seriously need a new computer :lol:
 
My download folder is 3.18 GB (after i clean it up a bit) and took me 2 minutes to load.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Annoree on June 03, 2008, 04:52:12 am
My Downloads folder is 601 MB.  Only 7.83 MB of that is my stuff for testing, the rest is mainly mods and stuff.  I can't live without my mods :9


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dobydog on June 03, 2008, 05:17:03 pm
1.92 GB
YES! I was worried that my computer would start slowing down majorly. I had downloaded a bunch of Victorian outfits (huge files for the dresses, ugh)for my sims, because I wanted to make a Victorian neighborhood. I never made the hood, although some of them wear them as formal wear.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: x_Tegan_x on June 04, 2008, 01:57:43 am
I try to download as much as I can.
But since I re-installed the sims 2 over and over...
I am back at 25.9MB!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: tizerist on June 04, 2008, 07:40:33 am
5.5 or thereabouts (I'm not at home right now). It takes about 8-9 minutes to get into a house from starting the exe.

However I DO think I have more or less got it covered when it comes to CC now. Theres nothing extra I really need to be honest. Its just about solidly playing the game now after a month of browsing far and wide for haircuts, objects, mods etc.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: exmodel on June 06, 2008, 01:41:31 pm
1.16 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Iary on June 08, 2008, 02:28:40 pm
5.49 GB, 21,286 files,
the loading times are... *cry*
tried to throw some stuff away but theres nothing that i want to get rid of :\


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: geezy33 on June 10, 2008, 08:39:58 pm
Well I remember mine well, 1.47GB--Download folder
Savedsim folder 413GB.
I like to keep my downloads small


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on June 11, 2008, 11:42:54 am
^ do your computer actually manage to run with a 413 GB SS folder????  (MB, maybe :D)

now I´ve got about 5 GB of downloads - and wonders above all wonders, my game ran faster than it usually do! It might´ve had something that was slowing down my game a lot, because yesterday the game was running almost smoothly, while the previous time it was slow as %$&%$& ...

though, many might say that 45 min of loading is slow - but it´s faster than it was the last time ingame (almost 2 hours..)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SnaSnateraar on June 12, 2008, 05:35:50 am
Yesterday i had over 10.000 downloads.
Now i have "Just" 600.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: büşraözdemir on June 12, 2008, 06:03:17 am
4.74 GB and i've got 10.319 downLoad and my game open in 30 minutes :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: geezy33 on June 13, 2008, 01:50:55 am
wow, I can't believe u got alot of downloads, see this is why I don't download other people's sims, cuz if u notices, sims comes in files in the bodyshop, My bodyshops loads faster and my game loads 5mins, the best thing to do is in the bodyshop, clone what ever sim u downloaded and delete the downloaded sim, if u have too many recolored high poly hairs, that's the reason sometimes the game it self takes forever to load, my old download folder from 2006 is ---998.00GB, that's a very big folder, cuz I was a dummy at that time, now by all the learning I did from this mess, I now keep the game very safe and clear wit good loading times, to anyone who read this, My advice to u is clone you the sim u downloaded and delete the file, u will still have the sim u clone and the orignal file will be remove.

Happy simming folk and keep your game running better


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Lorreign on June 13, 2008, 11:25:53 am
2.27 GB atm. Soon to grow again I'm sure.

My game opens in about 10 minutes and my loading screens under 5, but some parts of the game are slow and jerky. The makeup screen in CAS is really slow.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: wake.the.sun on June 17, 2008, 07:16:50 pm
Chose to delete my CC so I could start fresh and my new folder is, for now, 658 MB (1,557 files & 220 folders).


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Serenity119 on June 17, 2008, 07:27:26 pm
mine is now 1.99 gigs. That's because I finally did some spring cleaning and got rid of at least a gig of extra stuff lol.


Title: What is the size of your dowloads folder
Post by: rubyged on June 26, 2008, 03:08:12 pm
:smt120 I am in shock!!!!!
my dowloads folder is 12.6 GB, 42,228 files......
I think something is wrong with me.... I am a downloads addict!!!!!!!
(1st) rubyged


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: EKozski on June 26, 2008, 05:38:41 pm
My downloads folder was just over 1 GIG.

I used that file compression program and it dropped down to 638MB.

My game and neighborhoods load a lot faster now.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: heidi_aston on June 30, 2008, 01:17:29 am
Oh dear!
I just saw mine, I have used 1.14 GB and 2,773 Files, 55 folders
eek!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: danceswithwands on July 01, 2008, 05:03:14 am
Hehehe

My downloads folder is...

4.2 gigs, 9,560 files, 262 folders

My saved sims folder is...

30.1 gigs, 110 files

AND I should get extra credit because ALL of it was downloaded with DIAL UP.

:D

What?  I don't have a problem... really... I can stop anytime I want to!


Title: 5g and counting
Post by: t2igger817 on July 03, 2008, 02:04:30 am
Hey!

Mine is a little over 5 gigs. Last fall I even bought a bigger hard drive so that playing the game wouldn't drag my computer down. At least that was my excuse anyway :). My husband still hasn't that figured out. I am a download-aholic and proud of it! More stuff! More stuff!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: danceswithwands on July 03, 2008, 06:10:23 am
LOL--- I told my hubby we needed a new pc for "school"...

He hasn't figured it out yet either... but you should have heard the guy at Dell when the only question I kept asking was "Yes, but will it play ALL the Sims Games, Ep's and Sp's??????"  lmao

But I really, really, don't have a problem.... really I don't....


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: EKozski on July 03, 2008, 06:12:43 am
Quote from: danceswithwands;1292441

But I really, really, don't have a problem.... really I don't....



Are you sure?!!?

:laugh:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: danceswithwands on July 03, 2008, 06:21:43 am
Abssooolluutttttttteeeeeeeeely!!!!!

(hard to type with your fingers crossed...)

:P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: EKozski on July 03, 2008, 06:24:52 am
LOL

Tell me about it.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on July 05, 2008, 12:53:59 pm
My CC folder consists of:
448 MB, divided up into 823 files, which are divided up into 15 subfolders.

Today alone, I think I added 100 MB or so of CC.
Despite this, I'm still getting decent load times.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: awesomevegan on July 05, 2008, 02:36:55 pm
I am shocked to find I only have 1.56 GB at the moment. I thought it would be MUCH more than that. :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: geezy33 on July 06, 2008, 10:50:11 am
wow, seems like some people have huge downloads LOL!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: xXevermore on July 10, 2008, 04:40:22 pm
1.47 GB, last time I checked anyway. Abouuuut 3 and a half thousand files.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Jennifer32 on July 10, 2008, 11:44:27 pm
1.56 Gig I'm a download aholic to but i only download things i really like like clothing and default replacements and tvs i love baby sim furniture to


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on July 11, 2008, 09:01:41 pm
491 MB, with 970 files and 15 subfolders


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Snape_Fangirly on July 11, 2008, 09:20:07 pm
Since I just ditched my old downloads folder and restarted, it's a lot smaller than it would usually be but...

1442 Files & 29 Folders = 667 MB

My old one?

4012 Files & 131 Folders = 1.37 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: leslieme on July 13, 2008, 06:49:19 am
Um...I have a bit more than average I think.  It's 10.8 gigs, and I still download, I know... I'm very bad.  It only takes about 10 to 15 minutes for my game to load though, so I'm happy with that.

Of course the quick loading might have something to do with the fact I use msconfig to disable all services and junk on my computer when I run my Sims game.  I would recommend it if you have a large d/l folder, but be aware that processes and services will stay disabled until you tell msconfig to make a normal restart.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sleighill on July 14, 2008, 01:28:38 pm
I have...OMG...35,000 downloads...OMG!  I'm told we're alloted 65,000...trying to get there...lol!  Not really, but I shall soon go thru and weed the whole shabang of old stuff.  Takes about 20 minutes to go "ingame"...but I have such great stuff...I don't mind.  I just play the Wii until it loads...or eat, or wash some dishes.  I'm sick!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dreamcatchermwh on July 14, 2008, 01:46:51 pm
I have 2.65 GB. I used to have 10.86 GB. Wow i have improved . When i first started playing Sims 2 i had to have everything i felt was pretty and the hacks and mods the recolors! New furniture and their meshes. And i use to download residential lots and community lots , all have stopped. I stick to hair and their meshes and recolors , and make up , and new body shapes and clothing and shower proof skins.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Hidden.Inside on July 16, 2008, 06:58:32 am

I have 25,000 Downloads and it equals up to 12 GB...It Mostly Contains Hairstyles,Makeup, Clothes and Accessories, I have less Downloaded Sims and Houses... I'm kind of umm a download person person.. -_-" lol...

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Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: MoronStyle7 on July 17, 2008, 11:48:22 am
Gosh they are all so big! (ummm...I dont think I said that right...) I reinstalled TS2 so its about 2 mbs x3 but it was 1.21 last month.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: jamesabrown1 on July 17, 2008, 11:52:07 am
I don't know how many downloads I have, several thousand, not as many as Hidden, but mine take up about 4.5 gb in the download folder. The SC4, paintings, and so forth are way smaller.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: nasmib on July 17, 2008, 11:55:02 am
Hello. I have 9,85 GB in my downloadfolder.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: underoath222 on July 17, 2008, 08:24:10 pm
I have two seperate downloads files that I switch back and forth to, depending on what neighborhood I'm wanting to play at the moment. One has 470 mb and the other has about 410 mb. So pretty much 900 mb. The largest I've ever had it. lol If I had only one neighborhood I'd limit it to 500 mb though.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on July 22, 2008, 06:17:10 pm
564 MB
-1,205 files
-15 subfolders


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: jaybud4 on July 24, 2008, 08:36:58 pm
I only keep necessities in there.
239 MB over 889 files and 20 subfolders (I keep my stuff nice and organized..  A folder for each creator with at least 3 creations..  A folder for Miscellaneous, that is every creator with 2 or less..  A folder for clothes, a folder for skins..)
Course, that's Compressorized.  I'd like to see what it is without compression...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on July 24, 2008, 09:13:43 pm
597 MB
-1,303 files
-15 subfolders


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Juke Box on July 24, 2008, 09:16:27 pm
Mine is 7.45 GB. Mostly male - clothing and hairs ^^. Little of female things >.<. Some skins.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kyd20 on July 24, 2008, 09:32:32 pm
my download folder is 11.7 GB


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on July 26, 2008, 05:14:09 pm
In the 2 days since I last posted the size of my Downloads folders, I added almost 200 MB of custom content.

Current status of Downloads folder:
(Accurate as of right before my download impulse kicks in yet again)
736 MB
-1,558 files
-16 subfolders


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: winterglow on July 26, 2008, 05:20:59 pm
at moment
2.87 GB
files 8.707 files
folders 468

more objects than skins


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: coolsimsgal on July 26, 2008, 05:25:06 pm
Mine is only 20.5 mb lol I keep it at a minimum with only hairstyles. Sometimes I add a few other things though. Why? because my pc is only 256 ram, don't want it to run slow, it has 6.5 games installed of the sims. I never use any skintone but what the game came with and eyes.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Miixy on July 26, 2008, 05:43:54 pm
Wow, right now, I only have 166 MB
Not a big downloader
:)


Title: question about downloads folder...
Post by: TearsofScarlet on August 13, 2008, 01:33:44 am
hi everyone, i was just wondering - about how many files you all have in your downloads folder?  i have about 4,300, is that a lot?  it takes the game a good 10 mins to load... :rabbit:      i was just wondering, i dont have any problems or anything.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: EKozski on August 13, 2008, 04:08:41 am
There's already a thread about this.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: I_likeup@InSim on August 13, 2008, 08:02:50 pm
615.8 MB. I find that quite surprising. I though I would've had over a gig of files!
I don't download everything i see, cause my hard drive never has more than 5-10 Gigabytes available. :P
I need to do some clean up of files i never use, but it's so hard to identify the files, and I don't want to delete something my sims are using. :tongue8:

BTW, I use a mac. Just in case anyone wanted to recommend some file-cleaner or something.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: patdee on August 16, 2008, 06:36:32 am
475 mb.  It used to be 2 gigs but did a full format only my favourite must have things are in there.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: wake.the.sun on August 16, 2008, 02:21:52 pm
1.36 GB
-- 3,044 files
-- 428 folders

Wow, lol. I think that's quite a lot but surprisingly my loading screens usually take less than five minutes. I don't have a super computer either. Last time I checked I only have about 16% free space. Hmmm.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ksinclair878 on August 18, 2008, 02:32:41 am
This is probably the wrong place to ask this but oh well. Does anyone get error messages where you have the option to cancel, reset, or delete? I've had it in the past but never repeatedly like now. It's driving me nuts and I don't know what's causing it. Can anyone help please!!!!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: AlbinoBambi on August 19, 2008, 08:59:13 am
I'm pretty sure it only shows up when you're in debug-mode (boolprop testingcheatsenabled true (or something like that)). So you might want to turn that off, and see if it helps. :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dlockett61 on August 21, 2008, 06:00:32 pm
Even after a huge clean out I am at 55,540. I'm thinking about taking out all of these downloads and starting a new download folder, but of course I will keep the old folder just in case I can't find something I had in the old folder. My game takes about 45 mins to load and since I learned to turn off the other processor it runs great.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: L0w3rfr3ak on August 22, 2008, 11:32:03 pm
1.30 GB. I have 4308 items which are mainly genetics and clothes.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: willow34 on August 24, 2008, 09:25:26 am
7.68GB yikes!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: runefist777 on August 24, 2008, 05:20:57 pm
I got 5.32gb....soooo much stuff on it...and it grows weekly


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Devomuffins on August 24, 2008, 05:24:49 pm
1.39 GB... Is that good or bad?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Miixy on August 25, 2008, 01:45:45 pm
285 MB
I try not to download too much.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ~Amaryne~ on August 25, 2008, 01:58:08 pm
4,34 GB
9, 474 files
71 subfolders

Not surprised, I know it's quite big. My game takes about 7 min to load and maybe I'll start cleaning out some of the thing I never use soon...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Laura86 on August 26, 2008, 08:36:23 pm
Right now I only have the censor blur removal and (of course) the Insimenator, since I just installed. I can't put too much on it because it's not my computer so I don't want my mom to be angry with all the stuff I have. I have about 10 outfits for each stage and my favorite hairs etc. It's more than enough! :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: leandor on August 28, 2008, 09:32:43 pm
My name is Lynzi and I am a downloadaholic.

When I realised my downloads folder contained just under 12G I began removing stuff but I keep seeing new things and I can't resist them. In spite of removing loads of rubbish, the number still keeps going up. This evening I made my biggest breakthrough since I started sorting though. I've now sorted all my female bodyshop bits. Once I've finished sorting the men's stuff I can compressorise it all then hopefully the game will run again.......
Then I can sort out my furnishings, build stuff etc.

I am ashamed lol


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ivoriku on August 29, 2008, 08:28:31 am
mine is 2,5 gb.
I just love downloading, but my parents say I can only download 3 things a day :(.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Alotta Paine X2 on August 29, 2008, 01:19:48 pm
7.70GB ...to much?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: zilzos on September 04, 2008, 01:10:04 pm
4.01 but always on the increase

  bit of a hoarder


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: mia_studios on September 04, 2008, 01:18:02 pm
OK people .. just 4.5 GB here .. not much .. right ??


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: bdhfsbp2.3 on September 05, 2008, 10:30:09 pm
wow you all have so many downloads (lucky people) i only have a laptop and though its very good i have to be extremelly strict with myself about how much i download
i normally test a download objects for 2 weeks and if i love it and use it a lot then i keep it everything else has to go to make room for all the other stuff i want
i dont know about GB but i think i have 20 downloads at the moment though i just had a cleanout i normally have 20-35 downloads (and i cant use insimenator or inteen boo!!!!)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: hil34 on September 09, 2008, 02:54:23 pm
I have over 5,000 downloads :D


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: leandor on September 26, 2008, 07:13:42 pm
31,114 items in my download file now. AND I do use clean installer. Somebody stop me.

(Oh yes, and I am only on a laptop as well! I am a very bad girl!!!)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: jazzylu23 on October 10, 2008, 09:44:57 pm
i have 3.31 gigs!! my gosh... this is a disease!


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: po2of06 on October 10, 2008, 10:17:32 pm
6.7 G. i need an intervention :)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on October 11, 2008, 12:45:30 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/markspics4/markspics5/Downloads.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: zilzos on October 19, 2008, 05:35:03 am
Update 7.33gb now

 was gonna download the compressorizor but says its not guaranteed for Vista

  Anyone with Vista used it yet ?  Is it ok ?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on October 19, 2008, 09:10:45 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/markspics4/markspics5/DLs.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: clc on October 21, 2008, 10:17:00 am
ive only just got a new computer, i think in the las one i had upwords of 1,000 downloads
but at the minutue i have 168 but going up slowly all the time:happy8:


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: April on October 23, 2008, 02:59:32 am
Quote from: maniac19642003;1425968
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/markspics4/markspics5/DLs.jpg)


That cannot be enough! I have like over 4.5 GB of downloads (and they all had been compressed, thanks to the Compressionizer) and over 25 000 files!

I feel sorry for my computer. But still, I am craving for more downloads! And my game is loading real slow now...


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Jasumi on October 24, 2008, 01:48:10 am
I have 14.6gb of data in The Sims 2 folder (9gb in the Downloads folder with 36,000 files).

The game takes about 15 minutes to load.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: zilzos on October 26, 2008, 07:39:37 am
Does anyone with Vista use the compressorizor ?

  would like to use it but states cant be guaranteed with Vista ?


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dstucki on October 31, 2008, 07:44:41 am
2.58 G, 5037 files.

I need to clean out, too much in there I never use.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kaoz666 on November 06, 2008, 04:19:20 am
1.95Gb

I really do need to organize that thing...lol. It's mostly female fashions and Houses.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Jasumi on November 06, 2008, 04:48:24 am
Quote from: zilzos;1433381
Does anyone with Vista use the compressorizor ?

  would like to use it but states cant be guaranteed with Vista ?


I used it on my old laptop with Vista. It works well.


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on November 08, 2008, 08:02:42 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics/markspics2/markspics3/markspics4/markspics5/Downloads-1.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: mrscavbar on November 26, 2008, 08:01:22 am
I have 2 DL folders, one being 5.2 GB and another newer being 605 MG LOL I couldn't create anything to save my life, but I can DL LOL


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ariadna on November 26, 2008, 08:13:56 am
3,61 GB downloads (genetics, clothes...)
+ 1,53 GB saver sims (objects)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: clcny20 on November 26, 2008, 10:36:00 pm
I think I win...

(http://i35.tinypic.com/iqasgl.jpg)


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Islasim on November 27, 2008, 05:26:24 am
6.45  GB.... I have a lot of downloads!

the weird thing is that I still find plenty of things to download.

:D


to Clcny...RESPECT! that must take forever to load at startup?!?! Mine already takes 10 minutes to start..


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: zilzos on November 27, 2008, 01:31:18 pm
Quote from: Jasumi;1446085
I used it on my old laptop with Vista. It works well.


 thank you - its worked brilliantly on vista

  have gone from 4.70 gb to 2.52 gb

 :-P


Title: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on November 27, 2008, 02:15:09 pm
875 MB
-2,572 files, 20 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sane Enough on December 10, 2008, 07:52:53 am
more than 5.44gb. I'm an obsessive downloader!


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: rickzoe on December 10, 2008, 03:40:45 pm
7.75 GB.  it's ridiculous.  and embarrassing.  i try so hard to clean it out and can't bear deleting stuff.  what if i need it.  lol.
that doesn't include all of my skins/hair, which are in my savedsims folder.




Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Rheassi on December 10, 2008, 09:13:54 pm
3.39 gigs with a total of 15,154 files in 400 folders..

and growing every day!!

I also have a saved folder with stuff I liked but not sure I would use lol it has 790 megs with a total of 1,73 files in 84 folders

Rheassi


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: ShanOw on December 10, 2008, 10:06:44 pm
102mb in my downloads folder

17GB in my folder used for just collecting stuff

I'm a collectaholic  :(


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on December 20, 2008, 09:32:24 am
I finally reached 1 GB of custom content yesterday.

Breakdown:
1.00 GB (1,077,024,958 bytes)
3,007 files, 20 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Astral Faery on December 20, 2008, 11:37:51 am
5.54 GB in 152 folders.

Pretty bad - I know I have over 10,000 downloads, and a lot of them I don't even need.  It's just so time intrusive to go through them all, but I really need to do some major housecleaning!  Plus I have a lot of minor conflicts - like something is causing my AL chairs to not fit together into a couch and sims get stuck in them, or my hacked clothing rack is no longer working, etc.  Nothing that prevents normal gameplay, but there are quite a few of them!


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ifrito on December 21, 2008, 10:27:37 am
Over 4 Gigs.

Pretty much, a gig a year for each year I have been playing the Sims 2. I think thats right..


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: NekoTron on December 23, 2008, 09:06:19 am
My Download folder now is 1,92 GB, but before pc formatting, about 3 GB.... :rolleyes:


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on December 24, 2008, 09:31:32 am
1.08 GB
3,149 files in 20 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Amorine on December 25, 2008, 08:39:57 pm
2.75G

12,887 files in 559 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: VampyrMuffinMan on December 26, 2008, 05:02:08 am
 :eek: 3,901 Files in 204 Folders @ 1.51 GB  :confused:
When did that happen?


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on December 30, 2008, 09:17:22 am
1.13 GB, breaking down into 3,223 files and 20 folders.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: danceswithwands on April 18, 2009, 10:55:55 am
5.93 GB (6,376,075,264 bytes)

21,043 files

541 folders

*and that doesn't include the drawer of discs (about 13) that I have saved stuff on so that I can load it when I want it*

 1rock



Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kinnika on April 18, 2009, 11:57:50 am
Um... I think I'm too scared to find out, lol.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Paden on April 18, 2009, 01:37:26 pm
I just checked and I'm up to 4.65 gigs... You know what this means, right?? MOAR downloads! :D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on April 18, 2009, 05:03:59 pm
3.22 GB, 8.183 files in 102 folders.  There are a few meshes that need to be deleted but I have a hard time to find what is what.  Even if I manage to kick them out of my Downloads there is no way to go lower than 3 GB.

Oh, almost forgot. There are 3 more GB stored on a dvd disc. :D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: MaryH on April 18, 2009, 07:02:40 pm
Ok, I'm gonna be honest: right now I only have 380 mb in the active game, but I have 1.8 gig on my drive in storage-I can't bear to get rid of anything-so what I don't use, I keep zipped and in a separate place from my game. Only use what I need at the time.
Thankfully I have a huge computer (149 gig) so I can afford to keep this stuff on hand. I would be hard pressed to keep all of it if I had my old computer, which was a very average size.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on April 19, 2009, 12:29:24 pm
1.55 GB, 20 subfolders, 4014 files


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Paden on April 19, 2009, 12:37:55 pm
I'm waiting until we get moved before I bust out the game on the game computer, that sucker has a five hundred gig hard drive and some real fancy stuff. It's put away right now due to a small child thinking that it would be fun to play with all of the extras that are built into the case. He also finds the case fascinating because one side is see-through and the front has lights that run down both sides of it. It also has a new graphics card, so you can imagine my impatience to see if we got the house loan and to get out of this h*** hole we're in now.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on April 19, 2009, 01:32:54 pm
Best of luck with everything, Paden! Be strong!


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: jubeth on April 19, 2009, 03:05:39 pm
I recently had a big clear out and have got it down to 50mb, and set myself a cap of 100mb which I am going to try and stick to.

The highest it has ever been is 600mb.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: crazywonderful on April 20, 2009, 01:32:25 am
Empty! For now at least... Everytime I get into the mood to play Sims 2, I empty out my downloads folder and start over. However, last time I thought about playing, I cleared out my folder, but didn't get around to playing, so it's empty for now...probably will be until summer break.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: saowens on April 25, 2009, 10:58:41 am
5.1 Gig, 14,353 files, 128 folders. I'm a down load junkie. ;D

I've got close to a gig still waiting to be unpacked. :rolleyes:

I have a second hard drive that I store all of the zipped up content on and backup the game to. I don't delete it after I put it in the game.

On a good note though. The game only takes about 15 minutes to load up for me.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Sierra on April 25, 2009, 08:50:11 pm
I just did a clean up and it's still 7.36 Gigs, 32 268 files. I love to download stuff and it's so hard to delete anything, because every item seems equally important. Thankfully it only still takes about 10 to 15 minutes for the game to load. I guess I'm kind of a download hamster. ;D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Paden on April 25, 2009, 11:36:19 pm
I'm a total packrat when it comes to stuff for the game... getting up to five gigs now...


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kinnika on April 26, 2009, 07:14:55 am
Mine is not as scary as I thought. I only have 2.86 GB, which seems unreal. I thought I had a lot more. Good thing I'm reorganizing now before it gets bigger.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Alotta Paine X2 on May 08, 2009, 12:10:50 pm
Holy Smokes - 15.6 GB

Can't help it, I dl more than I play  ;D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on May 08, 2009, 04:43:34 pm
1.59 GB
4,052 files
21 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on May 14, 2009, 05:49:47 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics6/DLs.jpg)


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kaoz666 on May 14, 2009, 06:35:21 pm
After loading up on more content I'll be using for a couple stories I plan on starting soon, as well as since the last time I posted in this thread months ago, my DL folder has swelled up to a blistering 7.6GB. This from about 5GB a few months ago, and that's AFTER cleaning it out of some 3GB of stuff I hadn't used in years.

Yea...


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on May 17, 2009, 12:10:19 pm
1.60 GB
4,070 files
22 sub-folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: sunhair on May 17, 2009, 06:35:45 pm
my download folder is 9.44gb I have 31,626 cc files  >:D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: hawnsimmer on May 21, 2009, 01:08:59 pm
My downloads folder is 389 MB.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: brat1083 on May 21, 2009, 01:11:24 pm
My downloads folder is 1.87 Gig


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on May 21, 2009, 04:44:51 pm
1.64 GB
4,178 files
23 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: saowens on May 21, 2009, 04:50:49 pm
Now up to...

5.37 gig
14,737 files
134 folders

*Must get MOARZ*


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on May 30, 2009, 09:04:20 am
1.76 GB
4,405 files
24 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: angelnow on June 02, 2009, 05:20:44 pm
ok, mine is 4.87 GB!!!
and its on my boyfriends laptop, hes not very happy!!
plus my games is pretty sloooooooooooow!!!


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: scarletlady on June 02, 2009, 11:59:26 pm
786MB - I'm fairly new to downloading things for The Sims :) For ages I tried and nothing worked, I just couldn't figure it out! So I asked my fiance and he showed me how to do it, so now I have all this amazing extra stuff in my game :D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Jenn024 on June 03, 2009, 12:33:08 am
I used to have over 6GB of stuff until I had to start all over because my game took 20 minutes to load. When I started all over I had a little over a GB of stuff told myself I would stop downloading unless its really necessary. Of course I can't stop downloading so as of now my download folder is 4.28GB. It will probably be back up to 6GB again real soon because I just downloaded a bunch of stuff today.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on June 07, 2009, 04:48:22 pm
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/maniac19642003/markspics6/downloads.jpg)


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Captain_Shepard on June 09, 2009, 08:33:17 am
I think I reached my first milestone of one GB  :cool:


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: mfjil on June 13, 2009, 01:43:07 am
I think my Downloads Folder has more than 1GB and has many folders as well.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: cgirl369 on June 16, 2009, 06:33:29 am
a little over 17 MB


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: phoenix_risin on June 17, 2009, 01:18:54 pm
I have 40,000 files
 10.9 GB's
 My game starts in 6 minutes if that and has No lag.

I finally got things just so and wll now I have been playing TS3.  :rolleyes:
I am not planning on every dumping my TS2 though
Actually plan on starting it up and playing a bit tonight.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: mfjil on June 19, 2009, 05:51:57 am
On my last post here, I was'nt pretty sure what is the size of my folder.

Right now, the size of my Downloads Folder is 3.02 GB and has five folders.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Jasumi on June 19, 2009, 09:24:39 pm
13.02gb


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: maniac19642003 on June 19, 2009, 09:26:40 pm
Just a mere 1.08GB right now but will probly grow some if I find some meshes I need for clothes.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: SimGirl20 on June 20, 2009, 04:06:40 am
*hangs head in sadness*

           -sigh-

ahem, 310 MB but I'm working on it! :D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Night Wolf on June 20, 2009, 05:00:35 am
11,3 GB and the folder still grows, because I was starting to recolor skintones and clothes for my Bodybuilder- and Athlete Girls.
Don't ask, how long it takes to start the game...
 :rolleyes:
Must be 8 Minutes or longer.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on June 20, 2009, 09:57:22 am
After purging a few things, I'm down to 1.66 GB, with 4110 files distributed in 23 folders.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: gazania on June 20, 2009, 11:12:28 am
In-game, about 1 GB. It hasn't been easy trying to keep it that way. Not at all.

I do have a "side" folder outside of the game with items that I occasionally use, such as seasonal items. That's about 300mB.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: hopawaay109 on June 20, 2009, 11:15:02 am
my downloads folder is: 7.22 GB, containing 20,854 files and 495 folders...oh dear... takes about 15 minutes to load...i think i'm gonna start organizing and deleting stuff i don't use...


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: geezy33 on June 20, 2009, 12:32:24 pm
mine is very small, 214mb, very small subfolders and savedsims folder is 132mb my game loads in 5 mins 1rock


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: WingedKitsune on July 03, 2009, 05:13:41 pm
7.81 Gigs and rising


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on July 08, 2009, 07:15:15 am
1.87 GB
4,249 files
23 sub-folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on July 09, 2009, 11:13:06 am
about 13,6 GB (counting both savedsims folder and downloads)...
50 059 files, 2784 sub folders...

loads neighborhoods in about 15-20 minutes, houses 2-10 min (depending on lot size and CC)


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: dramallama on August 31, 2009, 08:41:59 am
359 MB, 965 files.
My game is rather plain, but I'm working on it.
----
Okay, so now I'm at 416MB, with 1,278 files. :D!


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on September 02, 2009, 08:24:20 am
2.04 GB
4,713 files
25 folders


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Haruhitastic on September 05, 2009, 11:37:50 am
Last I knew, it was at 1.6gb, but I've downloaded a hell of a lot stuff since then; including InSim and InTeen.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's over 3gb.

And looking at the other times people have posted, I'll never moan about my minute and a half load time again.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on September 05, 2009, 11:53:45 am
Minute and a half? That's nothing!

I've been up in over 1 1/2 hours... (On my old laptop, that is). Now, with 14 GB, loading time is around 20 min. With around 1GB of downloads, loading time is somewhere under 2 minutes.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Haruhitastic on September 05, 2009, 11:59:59 am
Well, before I went on custom content overload (I used to just download clothes, now I have loads of custom furniture; and like I said, I just downloaded InSim and InTeen yesterday), it took about twenty-five seconds to load; and my addiction is so strong I don't want to wait. XD
Some of the stuff in my folder is missing meshes and I have no clue where to find them, so I could probably delete those and free up some space.
All I can say is thank god for a 500gb hard drive~


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: pnut0619 on September 05, 2009, 05:59:05 pm
my download folder is 594MB.  I had to reinstall my freetime a few months ago and this time i organized my download folder. I don't think this folder is as large as my first one  :confused:  but I can say I use everything in my download folder so there is no need for me to clean it out because everything in my folder is a MUST HAVE for my sims...lol  :D and my sims wouldn't trade it for the world...lol  :D well I'm off to find more MUST HAVES for my simmies.... 3yay


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Carlwashere on September 06, 2009, 07:44:01 am
Mine is 3gb right now. It's always growing though.  :p


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: courtneybby on September 08, 2009, 02:40:54 am
I'm a downloading maniac. I checked the size of it yesterday, and it is 5.01 GB, which is massive! My game takes about 12 minutes to load on my laptop, which is so much better than my half an hour time it used to be on my old desktop. But I'm a download freak, so I'm lucky I have a 200 gb hard drive. And I can get an external hard drive if I really need to. xD


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Osaga12 on September 10, 2009, 05:36:59 pm
1.39GB with 6,756 files in 66 folders.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Serenity119 on September 30, 2009, 05:38:36 pm
1.75 GB which is much better than the 3.70 that I had before I started cleaning out what I didn't need lol.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on October 09, 2009, 04:01:17 am
Recently I reached the amazing number of 4.5 GB and my game has started groaning and moaning. I think it's time I cleaned it. :/


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on October 09, 2009, 04:41:46 am
right now - 14,3 GB (over 50 000 files and around 2700 folders) :rolleyes:


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on October 09, 2009, 04:48:21 am
right now - 14,3 GB (over 50 000 files and around 2700 folders) :rolleyes:
I'm jealous of your RAM. :D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: LynSky on October 29, 2009, 06:56:34 pm
At the moment mine is 2,03 GB - 5.553 - 256 folders.
I've been deleting what I don't really use and at the same time downloading new stuff.  ;D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: lovelygoth101 on October 30, 2009, 06:50:25 am
The highest mine has been is right at the 10 GB mark, 9.64 to be more accurate.

I had around 11,000 with all that space being taken up and at the time I had NO folders.

Since I killed the computer and its ressurection I have 12,327 (and counting) but I'm only using up 4.6 GB on a 1024 MB RAM 320 GB Hard drive computer.


I need more downloads... :D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on October 30, 2009, 03:24:09 pm
1024 MB and you need more CC? The threshold for mine is 4.2 GB. After this the loading time gets above 3-4 minutes and the loading screens and changing households can seem a bit of adventrue after a few gaming hours.

P.S. 650 GB HD here.
Edit: Sorry, it's 600 GB


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kaoz666 on October 30, 2009, 03:46:15 pm
My magic number now is 9.24 GB. I was doing well for a few months, but then I found some must have items over on Sims2Cave, so I went on a spree that ended with me snagging a lil' under a gig of CC. I think I'm done for now. I make my own stuff most of the time these days, but this stuff I found was to good to pass up.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on October 30, 2009, 03:57:07 pm
Yes, I know what you are talking about and I feel your... pain. :D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kaoz666 on October 30, 2009, 04:04:51 pm
I've officially forbidden myself to add any new CC aside from stuff I make myself until 2010...lol.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: caffeinated.joy on October 30, 2009, 04:11:33 pm
Simscave is doom for any Downloads folder LOL. I just reloaded Sims 2 on my computer (my hard drive exploded), so I don't have nearly what I had before (12 gb). I'm being a lot more discriminate regarding what I download this time around, but I've still got just under 2 gb already. I haven't spent much time at Simscave, but it's going to happen and my folder will cry.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: RuthStar on November 11, 2009, 07:26:28 am
Geeze, I got a shock when i went under properties and had a look. 4.90GB. Woah... I'll have to stop downloading.



Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: arlogurl on March 03, 2010, 08:54:02 pm
currently im at 12GB still looking to add (yes i have an addiction but i will not change) 1rock


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: kaoz666 on March 03, 2010, 10:48:54 pm
10.9GB, but only after a recent purge of unused/unwanted stuff. It was over 15GB at one point in 2009.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Prudensh on March 05, 2010, 01:08:29 am
I spent all of last night spring-cleaning my Downloads folder with the Compressorizor, CleanInstaller and Delphy's Download Doodad and it's gone from 8 point something gigs to 4 without me losing anything. I so love the guys who make all those wonderful tools.  1praise

*toddles off to Simscave*


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: madkitty on March 15, 2010, 10:18:58 am
951 mbs. I was surprised, I thought I had much more XP


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Hammie on March 21, 2010, 01:35:05 pm
6.19 GB, including my SavedSims folder... Plus an additonal 1.00 GB for my custom hood. So, about 7.19 GB worth of junk. Good thing I've got 269 GB out of 298 clear on my hard drive.  ;D

I've squished it from 6.19 GB to 62.0 MB... The more CC, the longer it takes the game to load.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on March 21, 2010, 01:42:33 pm
At the moment, 19.5 GB  (Savedsims included, with 611mb, all my stuff...) :eek:
Maybe I should consider compressorizing it...

Got a project folder on 9.3 GB, too - but that includes PS files... My 3D project folder for sims isn't even near that, with nearly 4.8 GB :rolleyes:


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on March 22, 2010, 10:32:00 pm
At the moment, 19.5 GB  (Savedsims included, with 611mb, all my stuff...) :eek:
Maybe I should consider compressorizing it...

Got a project folder on 9.3 GB, too - but that includes PS files... My 3D project folder for sims isn't even near that, with nearly 4.8 GB :rolleyes:
I am curious to know your system's specs. LOL


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Carlwashere on March 23, 2010, 03:31:07 pm
5.40GB + 0.37 with savedsims folder included.
It still manages to load rather fast (for The Sims 2) maybe 15 or so minutes to load to the point I'm finally inside a house.
I kinda want to sort everything out, but it works the way it is.  :p

I've got 100GB left (of 500) on my comp total, so I'm not worried. Let the downloading sprees continue!  :D
Who's with me?   ;D


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Hammie on March 23, 2010, 04:23:57 pm
ME! ME! LOL.
I haven't done that since grade school.
I'm actually on a downloading spree right now, with an already uber fat 7 GB+ Downloads folder.
What control huh?


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on March 23, 2010, 05:12:04 pm
I am curious to know your system's specs. LOL

Intel core 2 quad 2.83 GHz processor (unsure if there are two), 4 GB RAM (I really want to upgrade to 6 or 8 ), NVIDA GEforce GTX 285 graphic card, 1TB (931GB) harddrive (560 GB available), 64 bit Vista. Plus a huge monster of a cabinet, and three fans that makes some noise, but keeps the computer at somewhere between 25 and 50 C at all times.

Special built (by one who knows a tiny bit lot more than I do about computers...). Took 2-3 days, if I remember correctly (I mostly slept in a chair, woke up, asked some questions, and fell asleep again). My laptop couldn't handle 3D programmes, and it tended to turn itself off randomly, so I really needed a new computer.

My entire Sims 2 folder is now at 31.5 GB (which is nearly half of the entire harddrive I had at my laptop, with 80 GB...)


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ruffnut on March 23, 2010, 05:54:40 pm
3.65 GB my game still runs pretty fast though.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Carlwashere on March 23, 2010, 06:09:22 pm
Instead of upgrading RAM, I suggest upgrading to windows 7 first. Originally that was my plan also, but windows 7 handles memory so much better than vista. On the same computer, I was running vista, and I had trouble running the sims 2 and paint. (this was before I started using infranview) I'd run low on memory constantly and ended up with a black picture half the time. After upgrading, I was easily able to run the game, firefox, GIMP, infranview, and even MSN if I felt like it. I even started playing at a higher resolution and on bigger lots. I suggest that instead of buying RAM. As for cost, it's $119US upgrading from Vista. Compared to ~$200 for 8GB of RAM (from Crucial)
7 is a ton better than Vista.

I suggest this upgrade path first, simply because I had almost the same plan as you. Except my computer isn't as good as yours. I'm happy with it. I don't think I need to throw more money at it.  :p
It's as upgraded as it worth it to be upgraded. Anything more wouldn't be worth it because I'm stuck at a dual-core as is, because of the motherboard.
Next computer-related thing for me would be an entire computer. I doubt that'll be soon. I really like this one. ;D

Back on topic, I can't see where you guys get massive amounts of downloads like this. I got a little under 6GB and I have everything I could want for my game. Of course... There is ALWAYS more. You just have to look for it.  ;)


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on March 23, 2010, 06:28:49 pm
More memory because of the 3D rendering. 4 GB tends to be too little sometimes, especially with heavy scenes. More RAM won't help much for Sims, since there is a limit on how much memory the game handles before it crashes (I've fixed that on my computer, so now it runs to up till 3 GB instead of 2GB memory)

I'm thinking about upgrading to Win7, though I have a feeling I'll get stuck with Linux if I let a certain someone loose on my computer again, since he has already installed Linux on his computer. His brother (a computer wiz) worships Linux above anything else, and if you mention linux versus Win/mac in a conversation, you'll be stuck listening to a 2 hour lecture on why and how Linux will take over the computer world...some day. I'll need Windows in any case, since Sims and 3D max (and a whole lot of other programmes) won't run without it.

Back on topic - We've got download (and creation) mania... can't see something shiny and new without picking it up  :-[


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Carlwashere on March 23, 2010, 06:42:02 pm
I know it doesn't help with the sims, I was just saying overall. I ran tons things at once flawlessly, compared to Vista. I get what you mean with the 3D sucking up memory. I saw a little documentary on the rendering of like animated movies. And they get massive super computer to pull that off. And they still have to wait like over night for it to render. XD

I don't think I would install linux, even if it is free. I don't think I could figure it out. I don't know much about the soft part of computers.
Hah, is it me or is most people with linux super fanboys/girls of it?

Memory is an easy upgrade, provided your grounded, I doubt you'll have a problem upgrading it yourself.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ruffnut on March 23, 2010, 06:45:37 pm
Vistas recent update f**ked the sound bad. Soundless sims is fun but come on...I wanna hear them say sul sul!


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on March 23, 2010, 07:59:16 pm
I saw a little documentary on the rendering of like animated movies. And they get massive super computer to pull that off. And they still have to wait like over night for it to render. XD
Hah, is it me or is most people with linux super fanboys/girls of it?
Memory is an easy upgrade, provided your grounded, I doubt you'll have a problem upgrading it yourself.

We've estimated it will take approx a month to render our 4-5 minute short (on 2-4 computers, 10 hours per day). So yeah, I'd do almost anything to have Pixar's render farm...

And most Linux users does seem to be fanboys/girls of it - or they are closely related to one, and has been brainwashed by them... (happened to their mom)

About the memory cards - I'm terrified of doing anything wrong when opening the Monster and putting something into it - so I'll have to ask my boyfriend to do it. He knows which parts to buy (he was the one who put together my PC), and he knows where to put them...


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Carlwashere on March 23, 2010, 09:02:26 pm
Wow. That much for 4-5 minutes? Just. WOW.
LOL. Okay, if you insist on getting help. I highly recommend Crucial. Just google it, I bet your boyfriend has heard of it, if not, it's a great site for memory.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Nalia on March 24, 2010, 04:39:43 am
I am curious to know your system's specs. LOL

Intel core 2 quad 2.83 GHz processor (unsure if there are two), 4 GB RAM (I really want to upgrade to 6 or 8 ), NVIDA GEforce GTX 285 graphic card, 1TB (931GB) harddrive (560 GB available), 64 bit Vista. Plus a huge monster of a cabinet, and three fans that makes some noise, but keeps the computer at somewhere between 25 and 50 C at all times.

Special built (by one who knows a tiny bit lot more than I do about computers...). Took 2-3 days, if I remember correctly (I mostly slept in a chair, woke up, asked some questions, and fell asleep again). My laptop couldn't handle 3D programmes, and it tended to turn itself off randomly, so I really needed a new computer.

My entire Sims 2 folder is now at 31.5 GB (which is nearly half of the entire harddrive I had at my laptop, with 80 GB...)

Thank you, theraven! :D How long does it take it to load the neighbourhood screen? I'm curious because since I've got a new pc and my Downloads folder went up to 5.50GB, now it takes a while to load compared to XP (I have Win 7 64-bit). But maybe it's the fact I changed from IDE to AHCI mode.
There is a thread about Sims 2 and Win 7 for anyone who wants to discuss about changes. In your shoes, I'd go for more RAM too.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Paden on March 29, 2010, 12:53:09 pm
My downloads folder was well over six gigs until I got the Compressorizor and squashed the heck out of my files. Word of warning, though. Do NOT compress hacks or anything from TSR, that will cause your game to bork.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: madkitty on March 29, 2010, 05:28:48 pm
I always had a funny feeling about TSR... grr.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on March 29, 2010, 06:01:57 pm
Thank you, theraven! :D How long does it take it to load the neighbourhood screen? I'm curious because since I've got a new pc and my Downloads folder went up to 5.50GB, now it takes a while to load compared to XP (I have Win 7 64-bit). But maybe it's the fact I changed from IDE to AHCI mode.
There is a thread about Sims 2 and Win 7 for anyone who wants to discuss about changes. In your shoes, I'd go for more RAM too.

WIth everything in, it can take 20 min or so until I'm in the neighborhood view. Might seem a lot - but with my laptop I got used to somewhere between 1 and 2 hours, so it's nothing in comparance. With 1-2 GB in (when I'm in test mode and mostly have hacks and defaults in), it takes around 2 min. I've got all EP's and SP's, and load a quite full neighborhood, which probably ups the loading time a bit, too...


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Ruffnut on March 30, 2010, 01:05:46 pm
TSR never let me download anything anyways. Even with the account it kept saying i don't have EPs


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Anmladybug on August 07, 2010, 11:58:16 am
Mine's 416MB but I'm trying to clean it up a bit because after about 6 mins. of gameplay it lags ;)


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: HappyThoughts on August 12, 2010, 06:24:34 pm
I currently have 10.5 gigs in my Downloads folder.  I know for a fact that 3.5 of it is just hair alone, and thats after only choosing my favorites of the original 7gigs I started with.  My collection slowly grows though, I find something I have to have atleast once a week.  My start up time is somewhere around 3-5minutes depending if I added a new package file again or not.  A big difference considerring my last pc took just as long to load with only 3g's of custom content.  If your anything like me, an awesome processor and lots of RAM are a must for this game.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: codenameray on August 27, 2010, 09:29:21 am
2.3 GB Lol ))


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Paden on August 27, 2010, 02:38:37 pm
Its reached 4.43 gigs just recently and I think it could be time to add a couple of one gig RAM bars.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: simalene on December 11, 2012, 08:23:23 pm
mine is 9.63 gigs.wow huh?


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: retrotrut on April 17, 2016, 08:48:37 am
mine is 25.6gb and counting


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Theraven on April 18, 2016, 01:01:10 pm
30-ish GB for my stationary computer. I'm currently going throught he slow, awful process of sorting through  everything, recategorizing, deleting zip files and unwanted JPGs, putting stuff no deeper than 3 folders, and so forth. So far it's gone down about 100 folders and almost 1 GB, and I'm only at the very beginning of the process. I hope to get it down to 20-25 GB, so I can stuff it with some more...

On my laptop it varies between 5 and 10 GB.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Paden on May 08, 2016, 03:15:14 pm
I'm being very selective about what goes into my downloads folder this time around, so far I only have about four and a half gigs in it. I need to go through and delete out some funky arse hairs though, somehow the meshes seem to have come up missing and some have some really weird looking textures that look like something which came out of a baby's diaper after eating strained peas. 'Nuff said.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Jenna on May 11, 2016, 09:39:23 pm
I think I reached seven or 8gb in total with my d/l folder for TS2. Seemed like quite a bit way back when. I also remember having the overly-ambitious idea to sort all my downloads out, and get everything neat and organized. That never happened.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Paden on May 20, 2016, 03:39:35 pm
Most of mine are sorted into separate folders, so I can pick and choose what I want to keep or get rid of. Up to about five gigs now and climbing.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: lordtyger on March 30, 2017, 12:24:07 pm
I really keep the number of Downloads limited, currently I only have 2.97 GB. I like to keep the load time down for one thing. I do have All Downloads organized by Type and Creator in subfolders. Also I have an iMac, lol.


Title: Re: What is the size of your 'Downloads' Folder ?
Post by: Stelio Kontos on April 10, 2017, 10:14:16 pm
264........kilobytes, spread across one download. (Censor blur removal+easier 45 degree item rotation thing)

TL;DR: Bought Sims 2 Double Deluxe to parlay the code it came with into a Sims 2 Ultimate Collection download. Today, got it finally set up and working properly with the black box shadow thingies eliminated for the time being.



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