So after jumping around on servers, checking out maps and whatnot, my TF2 folders must have accumulated quite a bit of maps, models, sounds, music etc. How would I clear these files out without potentially damaging and ultimately having to re-download the game?
Posted Jun 16, 2010, 4:47 AM UTC
Take out a bunch of the big ones and search for the folders containing a lot of stuff using WinDirStat. My second favorite junk cleaning tool behind CCleaner.
You might like KCleaner. If you think your PC is relatively stable and you can do without the installation backups and installation caches of many windows hotfixes and other programs it'll clear them out.
Just a word of note that it's ad-supported with the option to Opt-out. You can opt out at install, and then kill rkverify.exe (Don't know why that process loads and sticks around, sneaky bugger) and Kcleaner will clean it out.
I shall take a peek at that, thanks.
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps[steam username]\team fortress 2\tf\sounds
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps[steam username]\team fortress 2\tf\maps
Vanilla files are kept in a different spot thankfully.
Why are you clearing them out? Run out of space?
It has about 3 gb of stuff.
I'd save them unless you're running out of space. You won't have to re-download them, ever, unless there's a newer version.
That is a lot but I can also see you ending up downloading it all over again.
You can delete the entire \tf\ folder and Steam will recreate it when you launch. It isn't that folder that you download, it's the compressed gcf files in SteamApps that you can't delete.
The only thing you'll lose is your config files, so you could just delete everything inside \tf\ except for the config folder.
Thank you, this certainly sounds like the answer. Also kept and pruned out the maps folder, keeping the PropHunt maps as those are a pain to get.