Question Massive storage use

Discussion in 'Community Support' started by Lars Bachmann, Sep 10, 2015.

  1. Lars Bachmann

    Lars Bachmann Member

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    My 60 GB SSD is out of storage. So I looked what is eating all the storage.
    It's the Raceroom's savegame folder or what ever is located under "Documents\My Games\SimBin".
    This folder is ridiculous 18 GB big.
    My question: WHY???
    And what can I do for making the folder much more smaller.
    The biggest savegame folder of other games I have isn't bigger than 50 MB.

    Thank you for your help in advance :)
     
  2. mr_belowski

    mr_belowski Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    It's all replay data. Look in

    C:\Users\[your username]\Documents\My Games\SimBin\RaceRoom Racing Experience\ReplayData

    You can delete all the files in there
     
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  3. Lars Bachmann

    Lars Bachmann Member

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    I have seen it, thank you.
    Is there a possibility to save the replays on my HDD and not on the SSD?
     
  4. heppsan

    heppsan Well-Known Member

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    Move you're "My Documents"?
     
  5. Lars Bachmann

    Lars Bachmann Member

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    That works? The system won't create a new documents folder?
     
  6. heppsan

    heppsan Well-Known Member

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    I don't think so, try run a race and see if it get saved on the relocated documents.
    Edit: Move it by going into properties (right click the mouse on your Documents), and name the other driver in the "Place" category where you like it to store the data.
     
  7. m.bohlken

    m.bohlken Well-Known Member

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    To Move your "My Documents"-Folder away from Drive C: you have to open the Windows Explorer right-Click on "Documents" an change the Path under the tab "Path"
     
  8. heppsan

    heppsan Well-Known Member

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    Windows explorer?? (the web browser?)
    I refer my tip from this video, is this the wrong / a bad way to do it?
     
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  9. Arthur Spooner

    Arthur Spooner Well-Known Member

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    Windows Explorer is the file manager from Windows. The web browser is called Internet Explorer.
     
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  10. GooseCreature

    GooseCreature Well-Known Member

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    Just use SSD for OS and drivers and whack games on another drive, OS needs a good 20% of free space on host drive to function properly, 60Gb is not large enough for games IMHO, you will not notice a performance drop and may well find things run better giving your OS room to breathe.
     
  11. m.bohlken

    m.bohlken Well-Known Member

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    Yepp - as Arthur explaind Windows Explorer is the File Manager :)
    Your Tip from the Video is doing same - it is just another way to do it :)

    Ah, and as I now saw the english Version from Windows I have to do a little correction: The Name of the Tab is "Location" ;)
     
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  12. heppsan

    heppsan Well-Known Member

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    Ah okay. :)
    Everything on my pc is in swedish, so the Explorer part got me confused!.. .:confused::D
     
  13. Lars Bachmann

    Lars Bachmann Member

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    Thank you. this Video helped me a lot. :)
     
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