Running out of space

darkof

I faced the same issue not too long ago. I personally would just buy or add another hard drive to my pc. Its much more convenient and subscribing to an online service will eventually get more costly over time.

Another thing you can try is to create a new google account using the playstore on android. When you do it from there, I dont think it requires you to have a phone number, at least when I last tried it.

Now I generally try to be more picky on whats available online since while having everything is nice, it does get incredibly troublesome trying to keep track of 1tb+ of stuff, of which 3/4 of that will probably never be seen again.

Damnation

@darkof Yea if I could afford it I would do that too, but currently it's not really an option ^^; Also the android trick no longer works, tried it yesterday and it requires a number now too..

darkof

@Damnation Then probably getting a subscription would be your best option. Unfortunately there is no way around physical storage space.

For me the android trick still works, not sure why yours doesn't.

bluebunny

I also added another hard drive to my PC since I needed an upgrade on space regardless! I always run out of space on google drive so I only use it for photos and links right now.

Dexizuki

I need to buy another portable SSD sometime this weekend myself, between storing my stuff locally (storing stuff online has fucked me over on more than one occasion where the hosting service made my files inaccessible or unreadable after upgrading their shit without warning or compensation) and downloading stable diffusion models I only have less than 20GB of storage left...

eiron

I bought a 12 TB HDD which i routinely have to offload stuff onto. I try to keep stuff organized with popular avi makers having dedicated folders and each avi within has their associated clothes/hair/acc. assets. But I only organize stuff from time to time so i have several unsorted folders. But i try to name stuff appropriately when i dl with avi names attached to items so i can quickly search them and dump them in relevant folder. But sometimes i forget or an item has a misspelling so it ends up getting lost.

purple princess

You could try to buy those external hard drives thing and put all of them on there thats what i did when i used to mod the crap out of the sims 4 lmao

trash

a 100 gig google account is 2 dollars a month which is pretty good which is something I pay for on my main account

TheReGodfather

@Damnation I buy a new 2 tb hard drive

Finn

if you have an apple device and make a turkish account on it, you can have mega at a very low price
like the 8TB option can be as low as 5$ per month
i use the 200GB now has a test and it's been fairly ok

elsalisa

me: buy a new dedicated SSD to put my unity file in there wwww

Asira

So I use a program called Eagle (Preview of my Selestia WIP archive)

It really helps me organize files and folders out and I can add notes, and links to files. Soo what I'll tend to do is load in the preview + archive together, Tag them, link the web page, and make any notes ie; version numbers.

To save on actual space I unpack most archives You'll download and clean up any unnecessary files.
ie; License documents, TOS/Eula type materials and redundant previews.
I'll then use 7zip (with these settings) to compress the folder.

In some cases this has saved me literal GBs for a singular outfit. PSDs and PNGs notably can be compressed a lot with this method so if you have a lot in your package It's common to see 100-300mbs less usage.

So, whats the cost of this then? Well time. You really need to go through 1 by 1 unpacking, cleaning junk, and re-packing. Some packs might see some compression gain If you double-pack (ie; 7zipping a .rar or .zip file) but Your kinda just tossing your trash under the bed at that point.

I have a collection of nearly 180GBs of Selestia stuff sent to me by a friend. Of Minus the duplicate files, It was around 156gb. While this is a WIP cleaning, This collection has dropped down to 110gbs with my process.

Well this is likely way too much work for most but if you want a free way to get extra space, I'd say it's fair to note you could cut out about 30% of your archive's space by re-packing into 7zip.

Asira

The significant importance of properly cleaning, unpacking, and Re-packing assets You plan to hoard.
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Before

138.11 GB
1,834 files

After

61.2 GB
1291

To be fair, This also counted duplicate files and cutting out a lot of extra files that are unnecessary. Such as license notes.

Rando

@Damnation said in Running out of space:

but making gmail accounts requires you to use a phone number now..

I've never heard of this happening, but I use a free cloud service that permits 1TB outright, up to 3TB free but conditionally, and another 1TB paid with extra perks. Never had a problem with an extra few TB in my back pocket, Free to DM further