One of my rituals after downloading new CC for my game is compressing the files. Now sometimes, it’s done for me and that’s good. But many CC makers don’t, and it leaves the users, like you and me, to compress these files. It’s tedious, especially if you have LARGE download folders.
My downloads folder is pretty big. It could be a lot bigger if I allowed
it, but I’m using a laptop that is limited on disk space. Since I play
other games and do other stuff on this laptop, space is important, and I can
use all the space I can get. I do have an external hard drive, sure, but
unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to direct all my downloads to go into
it instead of into my C drive. Pretty sure it’s not possible.
Anyways, The Compressorizer can make these uncompressed big old files into smaller files. Not sure how it works exactly, but at times, these files can be 50, 60, even 75% smaller than its original. That’s fucking sexy. Let’s give a small example.
My recent compress was of 4 folders—mods, hair (which is a 1,456-file
monster in and of itself), clothing, and furniture. Over 500 MB’s of space
taken from these 4 folders. I have more folders, but since I haven’t
downloaded anything new in those folders, I decided to leave em be for now.
As you can see in the screenshot, I managed to save up over 100 MB’s of
space. That’s huge. I was watching the compressing the whole time and I
saw some files that were 4 MB’s large. WHAT THE HELL? Then they got
compressed to 1 MB. A 75% difference in size. I dunno about you, but 1 MB
is much better than 4.
The good thing about the Compressorizer is that any .package files can be
compressed. Your neighborhood files can be compressed if you wanted to (and may even help load your game a little faster). It’s safe to use on those
files btw. So go on and compress your files! Reclaim your disk space!
Somewhat.
