Freeing Up Hard Drive Space

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dricketts

Trainz Luvr since 2004
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to free up some hard drive space using CM? I have about 70 gig of content and could really use the space.

Thanks.
 
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Delete all your obsolete content. Go into CM and do a search using the criteria: Location-local,Builtin-false and obsolete-true. Then delete what the search finds.
 
Is this what verifies it's obsolete and there is another version installed on my hard drive?

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Ok I used CM to filter all the obsolete assets and the deleted them. Why are they still showing in CM as obsolete assets?
 
Bob is more then correct.

Years ago I bought a 1Gb hard drive for a Commodore C-128 for $1000. Today I can buy a 3Tb external hard drive for $149.95. Kinda gets your attention doesn't it, lol?

Ben
 
Robert2d6 said:
Hard drives are so inexpensive today, why not just a bigger hard drive?
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It's not the cost. Actually i was considering a SSD drive. It's the hassle of going through the process. My machine has everything personal to me on it. The drive also originally came partitioned which is a huge waste of space in my opinion.Is there a way to filter out unused or very old assets in CM? I have stuff on there I know I'll never use but I don't know if their is a way to isolate it.
 
dricketts said:
It's not the cost. Actually i was considering a SSD drive. It's the hassle of going through the process. My machine has everything personal to me on it. The drive also originally came partitioned which is a huge waste of space in my opinion.Is there a way to filter out unused or very old assets in CM? I have stuff on there I know I'll never use but I don't know if their is a way to isolate it.
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It's going to take 30+ items at 30mb to clear a gig of space, a lot of assets are less than a mb, so over a thousand.
It'll take ages filtering out what isn't used, I had a go and lost interest fast.
A quick add on. You'll find it a lot easier transfering trainz to another drive than you think.
 
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dricketts said:
It's not the cost. Actually i was considering a SSD drive. It's the hassle of going through the process. My machine has everything personal to me on it. The drive also originally came partitioned which is a huge waste of space in my opinion.Is there a way to filter out unused or very old assets in CM? I have stuff on there I know I'll never use but I don't know if their is a way to isolate it.
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I would ask a couple of questions. How old is the hard drive you have? Is all your data backed up, because you said it is important to you, I am assuming it is. If it has been more than a couple of years since the system was installed on your drive, one of the biggest performance bangs one can get is wiping the drive and re-installing the system, which gets rid of all the data rot that drives accumulate over the years. Then reinstall your programs and data. By replacing your drive, you kill two birds with one stone. A clean install of your OS, and a larger drive, and having a new drive the chances of a drive failure, which are always there on an older drive, are greatly reduced. Then when you ad in an SSD, you go up a couple of more steps in performance.
 
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dricketts said:
It's not the cost. Actually i was considering a SSD drive. It's the hassle of going through the process. My machine has everything personal to me on it. The drive also originally came partitioned which is a huge waste of space in my opinion.Is there a way to filter out unused or very old assets in CM? I have stuff on there I know I'll never use but I don't know if their is a way to isolate it.
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Bump.


Old thread, still a very relevant question that I don't see answered anywhere.


So if anyone knows?


I don't care about any reasons WHY I shouldn't want to delete unused assets, I just need to know HOW to.


Thanks!!!
 
Any faulty assets or assets with missing dependicies that you never seem to be able to fix or never seem to have success finding the kuids for, perhaps the most obvious.
(You can filter to see Faulty, as well as missing depend assets)

I'm kind of guility of this crime, but I shall amend it tommorow! :)

One little addition, any assets you may of modified(replaced the Bogies for example), failed at, but forgot to delete. :)

I'm also guilty of this... sigh.. :o
 
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I have moved my 2 TS12 and the TS10 folders onto removable HDs that are left connected all the time. They actually run much better there than on the C drive. You just move them and change the short cuts and away you go. (Takes a while though)
I just use Tane on the C drive. My folders were running at close to 100Gb each.
Cheers,
Mike
 
I moved all my documents, music, downloads, photos ... everything except TRS2006 to a WD MyBook 2TB Hard Drive ... it gave me 20GB of free disc space

My laptop HD was in the extreme red, with only a mere 1.34 GB free space ... almost running out of space ... and TRS2006 was shutting down ... next, to try putting TRS2006 on an empty dedicated USB External HD, just to see if it works ... at least then all my Trainz stuff and routes will be backed up in case of PC failure ... then to disassemble my laptop, and suck the dust bunnies out of it

TRS2006 was taking up almost 1/2 of my HD, and photos videos music documents almost the other 1/2 ... something had to be done ... probably the best thing that I ever did backing up, and moving, all my stuff to External HD's !
 
There's nothing like a good back up of everything anyway

You can try running TRS2006 from your external drive and see how it runs. I used to run TS12 from a USB 2.0 hard drive and that ran okay, not super, and I was able to do stuff in Surveyor on the road.
 
My laptop HD was 20.7 free space yesterday ... today it is 19.7m free space ... why does the disc space shrink without me doing anything ? After optimizing it, and dumping shadow copies, it gets even worse disc space ... Why ?

I tested TRS2006 on my laptop, and on an external HD, and in driver I get the same framerates ... so I guess I'll be running TRS2006 on my external HD ... Does an external HD get hot, burn up, fry itself, and fail, more than an internal laptop HD would ?
 
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