Eh, if I had the money to spare, I'm sure my runtime size would be closer to 80 gig than it is now. Even with my combined P5 and P6 runtimes only being about 5 gig.

Edit: And having deleted all the unnecessary .rsr files from the libraries helps cut down the size to.

Quote - I probably should do a backup, but there's the fact that it would take so freakin' long to do it.

I don't know about Windows' backup (I'd guess it sucks), but it doesn't have to take too long if you have a DVD burner.

Get burnatonce and ImgBurn (both freeware).  Each DVD-5 holds 4.3 gigs and takes 1/2 hour max (and half of that will be burnatonce writing the ISO to hard disk, so you can work during that time).  The big thing is getting the whole mess ready to make into an ISO in the first place.  I use WinRAR.  You can let that run overnight (breaking the whole mess into smaller chunks, each 4.3 gigs max), then create the ISOs and burn them to disc at your leisure.

Thing is you'd need extra disk space equal to your runtime's size, plus 5 gigs or so.

Yeah, that's still a lot of work, more than if I just burned the runtimes as is to a disc with Nero.

It also hurts that at the moment, I don't have any available discs with a higher speed that 4x, doesn't help having a 42x DVD burner if the disc limits it to 4x.

I think it's more an issue of whether I should backup each time I add something to a runtime folder, or what. It bothers me, so I tend to ignore it (hell, I just finished created a second set of disks with all the zips and exe's I've downloaded, so losing my F drive (where all the runtimes sit) wouldn't be a complete disaster.

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