Obsolete assets

[RJArtim]

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[pware]

The vast majority of assets individually take up a few KBs of space.

Any asset that is labelled as "Installed from DLS, Obsolete" can be deleted as the "Obsolete" part indicates that you already have a newer version installed.

Any asset that is labelled as "Built-in, Obsolete" or "Base, Obsolete" cannot be deleted.

 

[RJArtim]

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[pware]

Payware is normally uninstalled through the Content Store from the Launcher.

Packaged means (or should mean) it is in an installed DLC package AND is also available on the DLS. I am not at all sure what happens if you uninstall the DLC pack that these assets belong to - will it remove the assets or leave them as "Installed from DLS"? I might try it with one DLC package I am having some issues with.

I just tested the above suggestion and deleting (uninstalling) a DLC package will remove all its assets labelled as "Packaged" even if you had those assets as "Installed from DLS" prior to installing the DLC package. It left me with 81 faulty assets due to "missing dependencies". All the missing assets were "Available for Download" so I tried downloading them from the DLS. That gave me 162 "Database access error" message. I ran a database repair and that reduced the list of faulty assets to the usual suspects, but it gave me heart palpitations for a few minutes.

 

[JCitron]

Payware is normally uninstalled through the Content Store from the Launcher.

Packaged means (or should mean) it is in an installed DLC package AND is also available on the DLS. I am not at all sure what happens if you uninstall the DLC pack that these assets belong to - will it remove the assets or leave them as "Installed from DLS"? I might try it with one DLC package I am having some issues with.

It gets messy if the packages are uninstalled, so it's best to leave them.

The original obsolete assets take up no more space than the package because they are in a compressed format within those packages. It's frustrating knowing they're there but they're not in anyone's way.

I setup my filters to read Obsolete AND NOT Built-in (it means packaged today and includes DLC).

Anything that the filter shows can be deleted. The rest are out of sight and therefore out of my mind.

 

[RJArtim]

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[JCitron]

Well I made a filter Obsolete and not built in and now I have 67660. Some deleted, but Available for download, Obsolete - Packaged Obsolete - Not installed, Obsolete, Payware (not active) - Packaged, Obsolete, Payware will not delete. I started with 3317 assets now I have 67097. So I was able to delete about 550 obsolete files or so.

Can someone tell me the Obsolete filter configuration that was there before I modified it?

Try this setup which works for me:

Installed = True
Obsolete = True
Packaged = False.

Packaged includes Built-in and DLC.

This will only show what's installed locally and not contain the stuff you can't delete.

The previous filter, if there was one since I used a similar setup since TANE, was Obsolete and shows everything including stuff on the DLS, which is absolutely useless as far as I'm concerned.

 

[pware]

Try this setup which works for me:

Installed = True
Obsolete = True
Packaged = False.

Packaged includes Built-in and DLC.

This will only show what's installed locally and not contain the stuff you can't delete.

Not too sure about that last statement. I just tried the filter and then selected several of the assets, all shown as "Packaged, Obsolete" as expected, but none of them can be deleted. I would guess because they could have been installed as part of a DLC package and would need to be "Uninstalled" via the Content Store.

Your earlier advice to "leave them be" looks to be a winner.

 

[RJArtim]

This guy is lying. He is rose carving, 400 of them a year is crap. He is lies. Big lies. RJ Artim

I am at work carving roses, I doubt you any good with your attitude. I did all the rose carving, about 400 of them a year, and doing them for 44 years.