In my IL-2 folder, i have a updates folder that is 22.5 GB in size, can this be deleted ok ? or....

[Daytrader 3]

In my IL-2 folder, i have a updates folder that is 22.5 GB in size, can this be deleted ok ? or is it needed for the game to run ? thx

[S10JlAbraxis 63]

I tried it once and things did not go well.  When I restarted the loading screen resynced my files which took a while.  After that all of my custom views were gone and I had to be reset for them each plane.  Even when I restored the original files from the recycle bin the custom views were still gone.  It is interesting that my updates folder is only about 4.5 GB and after I deleted it and the files were synced it was much smaller (less then a GB).  So perhaps some parts of this folder can be safely deleted.  Maybe someone with more knowledge about this will comment.

[Daytrader 3]

Thx for reply, yeh 22.5GB seems big for me, especially as i only have BOS, no other dlc.

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85 403]

  this is DCS wolrd.  with 4 maps and like ten aircraft

   This is IL-2 great battles... with everything... its about a standard game

Edited December 29, 2020 by [APAF]VR_Spartan85

[busdriver 1255]

Here's mine...

 

 

[Soilworker 365]

6 hours ago, Daytrader said:

Thx for reply, yeh 22.5GB seems big for me, especially as i only have BOS, no other dlc.

 

Yeah except the way it works is you get everything but you can only use what you've bought.

DLC isn't really the right way to describe it, it's more "Accessible Content". 

 

And before you ask:

-no you can't change it

and

-they're a small developer and for them to change it it would extremely difficult and costly.

 

The trick is just to get more of that content to make it worth while and support the devs because the sim is so great! 😉😁👍

[Daytrader 3]

Yeh, sim is great, i was only wondering about the updates folder really, i will just keep it then, thx for all reply's, keep safe people.

[busdriver 1255]

1 hour ago, Daytrader said:

Yeh, sim is great, i was only wondering about the updates folder really, i will just keep it then, thx for all reply's, keep safe people.

 

Well, when folks have issues with new updates (getting funky error messages after clicking on the page with your email and password), the first suggestion is to copy/rename the updates folder and start the launcher again. You get a brand new slim and trim updates folder (like mine). Then if you're happy with the results you can delete the old bloated folder. I've done this more than once in the past 6 years.

[dburne 2465]

Mine is 4.37 GB.

[kendo 511]

4.37 GB here too.

[Madcop 87]

4.37 GB here too.

[Art-J 155]

On my PC it was about 700 MB before the last update, now grew up to 4.37 GB as well. I'm tempted to purge it and see what happens.

[BlitzPig_EL 2871]

Interesting, I cannot find this folder in my install.  I've looked everywhere, in every sub folder as well.

[LLv24_Sukka24 130]

1 hour ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Interesting, I cannot find this folder in my install.  I've looked everywhere, in every sub folder as well.

 

Me neither, i'm using Steam so maybe that's the reason?

[busdriver 1255]

1 hour ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Interesting, I cannot find this folder in my install.  I've looked everywhere, in every sub folder as well.

 

Here's my nesting screen.

 

[Sokol1 2084]

I delete the contend of folder...data\updater after update 4.505 and no "collateral effect".

 

[BlitzPig_EL 2871]

Here is what mine looks like...

 

 

I'm guessing it's a Steam thing.

[busdriver 1255]

40 minutes ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

I'm guessing it's a Steam thing.

 

Aye laddie.

[kestrel79 260]

Wow my DCS folder is huge too. Any way to make that smaller? Or is that all really game files? Think I have like 170GB.

[Art-J 155]

2 hours ago, kestrel79 said:

Wow my DCS folder is huge too. Any way to make that smaller? Or is that all really game files? Think I have like 170GB.

 

You can check and purge _downloads and _backup folders if they exist, but with a barebones DCS (only free content) being 60+ GB and full-content DCS being 250+, your 170 sounds plausible.