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[magic dwarf]

So this morning my computer started running slower then usual, (30fps with only 12 dwarfs!), so i went on a quest to find out what the cause was.  I deleted all the spywares from my computer. but that didn't help.  Then i searched online and found out that slowness can be caused by a full  hard drive so i go to check  150 MB free space, 180 GB Used.  Looks kinda misleading due to the numbers. but my HD was full to capacity. 

So i only use this computer for 3 things, Internet, Dwarf fortress and Porn.  So i go to my porn folder to find out how big it is.  IT is 60 GB with over 100,000 files. ???BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER  120 GIG??? I reallized that my recycling bin had been deleted (as in it doesn't have a shortcut icon to it anymore)  so i thought maybe i had a 120 gig in deleted file backup things.  So i went online to find out how to get it back.  It ends up i have to mess with my reg files.  I open it up... and no luck. only 3 gigs of deleted file caches. 

SO now i try my search and destroy tactic where i select a folder and click on properties to see how big it is.  I find my documents and settings folder, 80gig.  JACKPOT!! I search deeper and I see that the answer had been right under my nose the whole time: my desktop has 60 gigs on it and i find a folder with incomplete limewire files that had 20 gigs on it.  I look on my desktop to see which folder contained all the junk.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 It was Dwarf Fortress!! The least likely of all suspects!  Apperently the jpg files for the map export are humongous (22.7 MB a piece times about 20 levels per fort times about 10 forts times however many exports i do (i like to have an overall view of my fort on a large scale) = alot of disk space

So there ends my quest.  I hope some of you will heed this advice and I hope that the others won't laugh to hard.

[Domini0n]

Yeah, I was really bogging down on space (7 gigs left of 500) when I decided to bid farewell to my older versions of DF. I've gotten back to about 40 gigs free, but its getting harder and harder to part with all of my crap.

[Linthar]

A little advice for dealing with this problem. If you run the compress_bitmaps.bat that comes in the dwarf fortress folder, it will drastically reduce the size of all the exported images. For instance, it can reduce a 24 megabyte world map, into less then a megabyte.

[Tormy]

So i go to my porn folder to find out how big it is.  IT is 60 GB with over 100,000 files.

Oh geez....

[magic dwarf]

So i go to my porn folder to find out how big it is.  IT is 60 GB with over 100,000 files.

Oh geez....

don't even pretend that your porn folder is any smaller.

[Slashcko]

And I thought my 10g of porn was crazy....

[sonerohi]

And I thought I was a good person for having never seen porn at all. Oh wait, yah I am.

[Glacies]

I knew as soon as I read that line that everyone was going to latch onto the porn. Oh well.

[tzler]

I was under the impression that you should stream porn?

[Kohou]

So i go to my porn folder to find out how big it is.  IT is 60 GB with over 100,000 files.

Oh geez....

don't even pretend that your porn folder is any smaller.

It's not the size of the folder.  It's the care with which it's managed.
(Then again, I don't have a porn folder, so I'm only working on hearsay.)

Anyway, though.  That's awesome.  60 gigs of Dorfs is a lot.

[Rhenaya]

A little advice for dealing with this problem. If you run the compress_bitmaps.bat that comes in the dwarf fortress folder, it will drastically reduce the size of all the exported images. For instance, it can reduce a 24 megabyte world map, into less then a megabyte.

another way to compress fortress maps is to use the dfma file compress, well ou need the compressor to look at it (or just upload it on dfma^^) but my 1gb of a map export is compressed into 250kb

[sonerohi]

Or you can abstain from porn and delete that huge-ass folder. Seriously, instead of staying inside and browsing that folder, go to a club or a party. Experience > pictures.

[Draconius]

Or you can abstain from porn and delete that huge-ass folder. Seriously, instead of staying inside and browsing that folder, go to a club or a party. Experience > pictures.

But how would you do that while playing DF? 

[Antioch]

I always use spacemonger to clear up my pc, it gives a graphical representation of which maps and programms use the most disk space

[DJ]

Or you can abstain from porn and delete that huge-ass folder. Seriously, instead of staying inside and browsing that folder, go to a club or a party. Experience > pictures.

But how would you do that while playing DF? 

Doggy-style, with a laptop on her back.