File Cleanup/Backup

[ottorommel]

I have gone through many revisions of LOR software and I would like to clean things up.  My Light-O-Rama folder is 12GB. I thought the size would be from the Audio folder but it was only 98MB.  When I dug into it, the majority of the size is the '...\Documents\Light-O-Rama\LORInternal\Playback\L' folder which was 9.1GB.  Digging into it I found the the big offenders were multiple duplicates of .lms, .lcs, but mostly large .lid files for every sequence over the last 5 years.

What can I delete?

 

 

Thanks.

[PhilMassey]

If you want to delete the entire folder, it wont hurt anything and S5 will recreate the required playback files when you next run a show or you can run the Sequence Compressor to prepare them

S6 is much better about these playback files. each sequence only requires a single .LORPLAY file.

When I was on S5 i would regularly nuke the entire folder to clean things up.

[k6ccc]

Although the text of your message did not mention it, the subject did mention backup.  Therefore a good excuse to point you to this post on backup:

 

[ottorommel]

1 hour ago, PhilMassey said:

If you want to delete the entire folder, it wont hurt anything and S5 will recreate the required playback files when you next run a show or you can run the Sequence Compressor to prepare them

S6 is much better about these playback files. each sequence only requires a single .LORPLAY file.

When I was on S5 i would regularly nuke the entire folder to clean things up.

Thanks.  I didn't realize that I hadn't updated my Version # in my profile. I am on 6.2.18.

I backed everything up so I will wipe the playback folder and let it rebuild then.  Thank you.

[PhilMassey]

In S6, you will use the prepare files button in Control Panel for each show to create the Lorplay files. All of the other files are remnants from earlier versions.