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Joseph William Dixon wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jeremy Reaban wrote:
>> Iris McAlias wrote:
>>> How big is your My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 folder?
>>>
>>> Mine is 978MB. That's huge! But I think I take too many
screenshots
>>>> D The Storytelling folder alone is over 200MB.
>>
>> Hmmm. 1.1 Gigs, 3000 files.
>
> Hmmm. Did Maxis finally figure out the joys of grouping files
> together into fewer, giant files (like the *.pak files from the
Quake
> games) for TS2? 'Cos Deluxe Edition (TS1+LL), with only the official
> downloads, is about
> 1.15GB and over 15500 files.
Okay, probably not fair to compare
> sizes 'til University gets out, but still...
They did actually, but we're just talking about our downloads and save
game folder.
Each downloaded object is one file and each sim pretty much has it's
own file.
The Game itself is 2.7 gigs and 1400 files (most of which are for the
sample neighborhoods)