How to Decrease Your Gmod's Size

This Guide will show you how to decrease your Gmod File size, It saved me upwards of 80gb

How to Decrease Your Gmod's Size

This Guide Will show you how to Decrease your Gmod's File size, It helped me get down about 80gbs, These Tricks will generally only help if you have been playing Gmod for a while or you have lots of add-ons installed.

How To find your Garry's Mod Files

Right Click On Garry's mod in your library and Select Properties
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/790861604719352079/055E59CEC8A48375774223C47BD2985C078E5F03/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
Select Local Files and Browse Local Files
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/790861604719356641/7CD3377114E7182D1F2F707E58EF4369765DFED7/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

And That is how you locate your Garry's Mod Files

The "Server" Folder

The "Server" Folder can be found by (From The Local Files Shown Above) Navigating to garrysmod>downloads>server

These Files are all the add-ons you have downloaded by joining servers, my folder was almost 140GBs in size
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/790861604719373618/467192296EA726C9A0C3A37DD28C2C20822C0F32/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
Deleting These folders may have some slight negative effects like:

Seeing purple and black checkers on some sandbox maps;
seeing Purple and black checkers texture on some hl2 Weapons;

Apart from these things, When you try and load into a server you have played on before, it will take as long as it did the first time. This is downloading the files you need for that specific server.

This Step should only be used if you have played on lots of different servers but have recently started playing exclusively on one.

Redundent Addons

Redundant addons can occur when you are verifying the integrity of your game folders or have had an issue when you have had to download your game or some add-ons.

This trick helped me downsize by 60gbs.

First Navigate to your Gmod local files then opening

garrysmod>addons

right click, > select Sort by > Type > Ascending

Delete All the folders with folder type .gma.outdated

These are unnecessary folders

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/790861604719403668/8F02FDB7A163D644E764BB8EC5D23610C1B948AD/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Hope This Helped

Some of these tricks will only work for certain people. I promise this will not corrupt your Garry's mod or steam.

If you know of other tricks please message me on steam.

:)

[funkaloo]

@bubby , I just realized your smile is off centered and im sad.

[bubby]

just compress the steamapps file like i did

[Drunkchey]

ye can also type menu_cleanupgmas to clear some old addons that didn't delete properly, saves quite a bit of space as well. do run this from the main menu though, since it doesn't work in-game.

[MrViking2]

i dont seem to have a "downloads" folder under garrysmod, but there is a "download" folder, but it doesnt have "servers" in it. There is a servers folder in the files, but its under "platform" instead of garrysmod. Should I delete it?

[soyjak gaming]

just unsubscrbe maps or any other mods in the workshop, under "my subscriptions" and then type this command under the console: menu_cleanupgmas

[Larry the gas mask man]

how do you delete gmod maps?

[litcherally]

hey vaxerino can you cut it out

[hild my hind]

henis!

[Gexant]

just delete system32

[DeltAxShaRD]

Thanks!