I have 70GB of GW Screenshots.

Evil Neato

Evil Neato

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2008

nO, MS, YAY, vOR, EnS

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Should I delete them to free up HD space or should I keep them for old time's sake?

Discuss.

Stop The Storm

Stop The Storm

Keeping DoA Alive

Join Date: Jan 2007

England

Were In [DoA]

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i would say go through and dig out the best ones, but 70gb of pictures a crap load of pics to go through

delete them all ftw

Evil Genius

Evil Genius

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Join Date: Dec 2006

Australia

Mo/

Surely most of them must be from the BMP days, before the default file format was changed to JPEG? Or did you set it back to JPEG?

Either way delete them all.

Although hard drive space is so cheap nowadays anyway, 70GB would be ~$7 worth I'm guessing.

Queenie

Queenie

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

And I thought having 24gigs of screen shots was a lot/sad/etc.

Thanks Evil Neato.

GhostKairi

GhostKairi

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2008

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Teh Academy [PhD] - Tomb of the collectors

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That is sick, in so many cool and bad ways.
Get an external HD. 500Gb for £60 ~ $100 isnt so bad.

Emperial Navarator

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

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wtf 70GB of screenies???

I see my old screens are 2.65MB each so... 1024/2.65=386,41 * 70= 27049 Screenshots!!!

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperial Navarator View Post
wtf 70GB of screenies???

I see my old screens are 2.65MB each so... 1024/2.65=386,41 * 70= 27049 Screenshots!!!
Too many screens.

Go through them and delete the unliked/unneeded ones.

Then go online and get a recording program like fraps.com and record events instead of take pictures so that you don't have a need to take several pics of one thing.

Also, if you just love screen shots, get a flashdrive.

-and I thought seeing people with gw384 and up names in their attachments was bad-

pOmrAkkUn

pOmrAkkUn

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Join Date: Oct 2005

Bangkok

Me/Mo

I burn them to DVD each month xD

Abedeus

Abedeus

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Niflheim

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And I thought that having 776MB of screenshots (I still have a screenshot from 12.09.05...) is bad.

Evil Neato

Evil Neato

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Join Date: Oct 2008

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperial Navarator View Post
wtf 70GB of screenies???

I see my old screens are 2.65MB each so... 1024/2.65=386,41 * 70= 27049 Screenshots!!!
..Actually... They're all jpg; I've batch converted them since the beginning. 98,217 screenshots.

-Sonata-

-Sonata-

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Pretty Hate Machines [NIN]

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Screenie addict here in any game.

Yeah, my suggestion would be either a) Burn all your fav's to a CD and trash the rest, or b)upload them to a private photo storage. Or, you could do both.

Free up the space and you still have your memories.

Cale Roughstar

Cale Roughstar

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

Canada

Guy In Real Life [GIRL]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil Neato View Post
98,217 screenshots.
Do you play with a finger on the printscreen button? Holy crap.

Save every 17th picture, delete the rest.

thedeadwalk!

thedeadwalk!

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Join Date: Jun 2006

Atlantis

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SS or it didn't happen.

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

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Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

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Originally Posted by thedeadwalk! View Post
SS or it didn't happen.

Heh, expect 600 or a frame-by-frame animation of him opening the files on his computer.

I recently went through and uploaded all of my files to a hosting site. It was only 1,500 or so but it only took like 2 hours. A couple weeks and you could have that all done and delete them all for a new set. In your case though, it might be more effective to put them on a mass storage device or CD.

Feathermoore Rep

Feathermoore Rep

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

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98k screen shots at as a screen shot means you've spent...~27 HOURS taking screenshots....that doesnt count time you've spent to go out of your way to take and set up screenies...


thats just...wow.

Makkert

Makkert

Black Beast of Aarrrrgghh

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

The Biggyverse [PLEB] // Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

way too much.
you''ll never do anything with them all.


delete them.

sph0nz

sph0nz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

none.

W/

98,217 screens. Wow. I'd delete them, or upload some on photobucket or something. However, deleting would be easier and faster than picking some through that huge pile.

Destro Maniak

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

A/

OR
convert them to jpg and make it 1gb

if theyre jpg already it means you got shit loads of picture and delete them imo

Garsty

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2007

In my opinion if youve got enough hard drive space than keep them, if not delete some and keep the best. I must admit I have loads but dont know right now as all stored on an external hard drive lol.

byteme!

byteme!

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Join Date: Jan 2006

On Earth

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I'm am in awe. My jaw is currently lying on the floor. 70gb's of Jpeg files is alot. WOW!

Lycan Nibbler

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

AZ

Burn them to DvD or CD so someone can wonder wth they are in 2,000 years when its discovered in a fossil somewhere...

MisterB

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Join Date: Oct 2005

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Convert to video, 30 fps, and you can see all of them in an hour.

You have too many screen shots. Delete.

The Meth

The Meth

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Join Date: Jan 2007

R/

Do /age and tell us how many hours you have played so we can figure out your screenshots per minute.

Trylo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

[Here] | CKOD

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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Meth View Post
Do /age and tell us how many hours you have played so we can figure out your screenshots per minute.

please consider this as it would make my day just that much brighter. please?

Fril Estelin

Fril Estelin

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Join Date: Jan 2007

London

Nerfs Are [WHAK]

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You should print them and pin them on the walls of your room/house .

/serious mode on/ 17 DVDs to burn, or countless hours to sort them/

BenjZee

BenjZee

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Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

that over 9000 !! in all seriousiness delete most of them as it takes you hours and horus to look through them

Jenny

Jenny

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Join Date: Apr 2006

France

What's Going On

Mo/E

did u take a screenshot everytime the size of ur chat log got filled?
(so u can keep a record of ur life ; D)

just keep the screens if u dont need the space, my opinion.

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

Get an external hard drive. Save them all. You never know when you might want one.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

sounds to me like someone spammed prt scrn during action moments to get nice action shots of his chars. And didn't delete the rest. >.<

Darkobra

Darkobra

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Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

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What were you doing? A scene from the Million Dollar Man?

Age

Age

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Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

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I would go through all of them and keep the ones you want and delete the ones you don't want.You could buy 3 flash drives or DvD.

Bowstring Badass

Bowstring Badass

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Character selection screen figuring what I want to play...

Purple Lingerie - :D

What are you trying to do make a movie from just screens? /delete and start over.

Evil Neato

Evil Neato

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Join Date: Oct 2008

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Originally Posted by The Meth View Post
Do /age and tell us how many hours you have played so we can figure out your screenshots per minute.
I don't have my original account, and I don't feel like switching around to all my other accounts for playtime, so I'll just give you the /age for my now main account, yeah? 8,354 hours 34 minutes over the past 43 months.

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Originally Posted by Jenny View Post
did u take a screenshot everytime the size of ur chat log got filled?
(so u can keep a record of ur life ; D)

just keep the screens if u dont need the space, my opinion.
Actually, I just compulsively hit PrtScn every time I see something pretty.

Ohhh look, my Warrior's ass in 15k Kurzick... Oh look, my Warrior's face... Oh look my... yeah... Kind of a lot like that. Very few are actually chat shots and other meaningful events.

Oddly enough... I never even look at the screenshots after I take them, I just enjoy knowing that I took a screenshot. Maybe I should just take screenshots and delete them all every time they fill up...

Quote:
Originally Posted by some shitter
pics or it didn't happen
oh it happened

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Originally Posted by Miss Drops Az View Post
Burn them to DvD or CD so someone can wonder wth they are in 2,000 years when its discovered in a fossil somewhere...
I'm considering burning them to DVD... That or just deleting them.
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Originally Posted by MisterB View Post
Convert to video, 30 fps, and you can see all of them in an hour.

You have too many screen shots. Delete.
Y'know... a video with 30 random screenshots per second would be kinda cool...

Aussie Boy

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Join Date: Mar 2007

Australia

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Wow thats a lot of space but cool non the less
I'd save them all but get an external drive for them and just them
cause if your taking more you could use a cheap 160 or 180 GB drive and keep adding to the total.
Anyway best pic i remember i have somewhere I took a screeny of was end of beta and Gwen setting fire to us that was a hoot and totally unexpected.

Chthon

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Apr 2007

7zip --> burn to DVD --> delete.

Xx_Sorin_xX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

W/

when i search at yahoo for Guild Wars screenshots, i get about 19500 results.

you have more than ze internets!!!

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

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wow.... i thought I was a pack rat sitting at 3.5GBs (and that was playing starting back at release in 2005)

http://i34.tinypic.com/ta6734.jpg

Man....70GBs? Delete them... for the love of all things good, delete them.

LeoX

LeoX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

United Kingdom

Guildless Since 2005???

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As some said, go through them one time and keep the best ones.
I regret having to reformat my pc and lose all my screens of GW (and other games too), because there was some good memories in there.

Evil Neato

Evil Neato

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2008

nO, MS, YAY, vOR, EnS

W/A

Ended up deleting them, along with my 45GB of L2 screenshots. *shrug* So much for old memories...

Arduin

Arduin

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The Netherlands

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil Neato View Post
Wow, you even made screenshots of your screenshots!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil Neato View Post
Ended up deleting them, along with my 45GB of L2 screenshots. *shrug* So much for old memories...
The end of an era.