Their new patch appears to have introduced 16 gb of useless garbage.
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One trick I used just before the launch of BfA to reduce the program size…
Copy your screenshots, addons, and wtf folders to another location. Then delete and reinstall the entire game. Put your folders back in the proper place. You may also want to sort through your screenshots. Move the ones you want to keep to a more permanent location. Delete the others.
It seems after multiple patches a lot of data gets duplicated and bloats the whole program. A fresh install will just download the most recent version of the game.
72GB here too. Yeah it’s getting a little big.
75GB for me and my SSD is sloooow now, took like 10 times to open than before installing that pre-patch, =/ i deleted diablo 3 to install it, hope when the patch is live this get fixed, is pretty annoying to me
Yes it’s normal, it’s happening to me too, I’m at the point now where I realize that I am going to have to make a choice, sacrifice a few things, or get a new computer lol. Luckily there’s plenty I can delete so that’s good. But yeah, it’s the games that are really choking up the storage space, as well as all my screenshots.
this shouldn’t be normal, i remember the size of my game was about 50gb 1 month ago, and now 75gb, i don’t want to buy a bigger SSD, maybe later will try that trick to delet the game and re install it again and see if that cleans a lil.
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What a coincidence. I too just discovered my WoW folder had become too large. like 66GB or so. There wasn’t enough room to download the update and my computer was getting upset with me. So I decided to do a nice fresh install on my D drive. Keep the C drive clear for the important stuff.
It seems to be chugging along at a decent pace. Hopefully shouldn’t take too long.
Did anyone else chuckle at gigglebits?
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Would some of you that know about SSD’s recommend some good ones without breaking the bank?
Yeah over 72G now for me. Might check my cache later.
I thought my WoW folder was big until I started downloading Call of Duty Black Ops 4.
It is growing rather large but considering how cheap hard drives are these days, I am not sure it is that big a deal. Well at least not until you need to reinstall 14+ years of content. I run my home computer on SSDs and even those are fairly cheap now a days.
The problem is we have 14 years of content to keep track off. Most MMOs don’t survive long enough that it becomes a problem.
all those gigabytes and only the end of the end game is relevant
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About time for a clean up patch that checks and removes any useless files.
or a full re install and only retain personal data from the current stuff then delete the old stuff to recover space.
I"m wondering how much is to modify things to encourage multi threading and if that is gonna break a lot of things. (Who am I kidding, Break Things, I laugh at myself)
Three steps forward, two back.
71 gigs here. As others have said, I do believe it’s because of the patch that was downloaded, totalling a rather staggering 16 gigs. When I saw that, I was kind of taken back. That’s a huge patch for what doesn’t seem like much on the content side of things. That’s not a shot at Blizz either, but in reality, 8.1 is a lot of fixes for current systems. I’m not sure why it’d have to be that big.
I just looked and mine is 60 gig or so.
My wow/data folder alone is about 60 gig, so it isn’t extra stuff.
I’ve not downloaded the newest patch stuff yet, as far as I know.
Though it doesn’t really matter, I never download the patch ahead of time. So I won’t see a 16 gig increase, since many of those files will just be “patches” which will then take over the old files. I wait until the patch is live, when it says “incompatible”, then I bother to patch (usually it is very fast, or if not I’d have another opportunity to rob the stage to Valentine.)
71GB for me.
Sheesh Ain’t nothin for that 3 terabyte life
Find wow.log and delete it if you want to upload your logs first upload them before if you don’t care then delete it. i have logs from mists of pandaria lol
This thread is very old. Thread necromancy is a bad thing to do, as it often raises old, inaccurate information which could be misunderstood as being current.
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