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Offline Krusty

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« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2006, 11:41:54 AM »
Swoop, if you have 100MB of film files, it grows. If you have skins enabled, it grows a LOT. If you have high-res and skin packs installed, it grows a LOT MORE!

Then there's the maps. There's a bajillion crappy-arsed HTH maps that do nothing but take up HD space (that's why I think duh's total is so large, personally)

Mine tops out at 3.04GB, but that's because I do a lot of skins. I keep all the iterations of my skins, all the work files, all the archives, under subdirectories in the skins directory, so they're all added to this total, as well.

203MB main dir
~100mb terrains
770MB cache
32mb films
1.91GB skins (that's mostly my skin files)
40MB sounds (sound pack)

EDIT: My skins files/archives come out to about 1.7GB or so, I just checked
« Last Edit: June 13, 2006, 11:54:12 AM by Krusty »
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Offline Reiel

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« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2006, 01:42:02 PM »
My point is, I was not paying or anything. I checked the size of it afterwards before I played DoD, considering I was putting in a modification for Gmod. It was fairly small. After DoD, it's expanded vastly.


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Offline croduh

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« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2006, 02:11:49 PM »
Krusty,not only maps wich do take up alot of space, but sounds(i have more than 1 soundpack, 4 i think-frudas,waffles,eskimos wierd ones,mitsus-i mixed them all in my files), movies...

I will have to clean up mine HTC folder very soon.
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Offline Krusty

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« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2006, 02:43:31 PM »
Duh: you need to just keep the sounds you like, ditch the rest!

Reiel: You need to be more specific I guess. Something happened. Do you mean that something copied AH's directory so that there are two or more directories, all with the same contents? How has it "grown" to 40GB? Look inside the directory and look for 40GB of files, it shouldn't be hard. Tell us what the files are named, and in what sub directory they are included.

If you see 20+ copies of the same directory, that might be an indication. Things like "Copy of cache (1)", "Copy of cache (2)", etc...
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Offline Reiel

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« Reply #19 on: June 13, 2006, 03:33:48 PM »
Krusty, I did not take the time to inspect it. I deleted the game as soon as I saw how big it was, I needed to do a request. I do not have any specifics.... and I'm giving the game one more little chance.
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Offline WMLute

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« Reply #20 on: June 13, 2006, 04:02:54 PM »
AH under 1 gig here.  900something mb.

I have a Backup of everything, includin' old flims, mitsu sounds, etc.  Even got a couple of AH.EXE's i've downloaded.
Total space used =just under 2 gigs, but w/o the backups, it would be 900mb ish.
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« Reply #21 on: June 13, 2006, 04:33:13 PM »
Mine is almost 5 GB and thats insanely huge.  I really need to clean it out, I've got all kinds of old .exe files in there and alot of films that I need to go through.
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Offline TDeacon

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« Reply #22 on: June 13, 2006, 09:27:56 PM »
I have 3 versions of AH installed at the moment, but none of them individually is over 1GB.
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« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2006, 10:28:12 PM »
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Originally posted by Reiel
This is Richard Hayes, a dedicated,(once was) player of your game, Aces High Two. But, a problem has arisen. During the time I was playing Day of Defeat: Source, your game managed to duplicate itself, becoming unbelievabley huge. I discovered this when I checked out photoshop, I was out of Scratch Disk space. So, not even going to accuse your 'lovely' game, I deleted my Steam, hoping it was the source... Garry's Mod, DoD, CS, everything. Thank you for the wonderful night your damn game has bestowed upon me, and please, please try and fix this weird glitch.

Sincerely,
              Richard Hayes


This should be in tech support section not in the bug report.

Anyways you need to do a chkdsk

chkdsk /f c:
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Offline Roscoroo

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« Reply #24 on: June 13, 2006, 11:16:11 PM »
ive got a total of 9 gb of AH  from ah .049  thru the 500mb's of ah1 terrains/ films ---- thru all of ah2 .. i even lost 400 mbs of ah2 films over the yrs... and im not counting the user made Avi's/movies.


I'VE  never seen this game replicate itself ... the only way anything on your pc will replicate is either in backups ... a nasty Worm/Virous .... or someone with sticky fingers .
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« Reply #25 on: June 14, 2006, 06:46:59 AM »
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
ive got a total of 9 gb of AH  from ah .049  thru the 500mb's of ah1 terrains/ films ---- thru all of ah2 .. i even lost 400 mbs of ah2 films over the yrs... and im not counting the user made Avi's/movies.
 
Off topic, and sorry for hijacking this thread but...

Roscoroo... do you still have the pizza map on your system? If so, do you also have the install files for the version of AH that will run it?

I'm trying to do a recreation of the pizza map. But, certain details elude my fading 50 year old memory. ;)
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« Reply #26 on: June 14, 2006, 09:42:22 AM »
start here Nhawk ..Roo's old stuff

I'll either email ya pizza or load it up  Friday when my hi-speed gets fixed

its only 3,652kb

Roscoroo@gmail.com
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« Reply #27 on: June 14, 2006, 11:02:15 AM »
You want AKDesert running on AH version 1.11 patch 4.

I'm happy to email either or both to you NHawk.

Edit: The old ah-terrains addy good? or you can PM me.
« Last Edit: June 14, 2006, 11:06:52 AM by Easyscor »
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« Reply #28 on: June 14, 2006, 02:18:40 PM »
Mine is 1.6GB, but i have no high res textures installed. It would have to replicate about 24 times to get to 42 GB. I am real curious what made it so big in your case, may be you made avis from your ah2 films in the directory?
Or you simply used it as default dir for some other app.

BTW there is a nifty application called treesize that shows the sizes of the directorys with their subfolder in a browser, verry good to locate the real hogs.

EDIT: Schatzi just suggested you might have had a malware program that inflated files. Another thought, maybe you have a "safe install" program which enables you to undo any updates and which did savety copies of ah2 everytime you ran a patch. Some programs allow you to restore to old versions and therefor save all data before it gets overwritten or just save all data to be sure.
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Offline NHawk

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« Reply #29 on: June 14, 2006, 03:36:45 PM »
Roscoroo, got 111 thanks!

Easy..PM sent.
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