Huge sharedassets files - How to decrease?

Hello,

I am building for PC and there is the .exe file and the corresponding folder. The .exe is a reasonable size at 11mb. The stuff in the folder though is huge, specifically the sharedassets files. How would I go about reducing the sizes of these? My game is close to complete. Will cutting out the unused assets in the project that has accumulated throughout development solve this?

Thanks in advance!

 

Check the log file to see whats taking most space,
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ReducingFilesize.html

Theres some asset store plugins for that also,
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8162

 

Thanks! I'll go purchase the Build Report plugin

 

I've purchased the Build Report plugin and it works like a charm. It's extremely informative.

Just out of curiosity though, is it necessary for all builds to have a corresponding Data folder? Does a marketplace like Steam readily accept this format?

 

The unity desktop export structure works that way and that is not a problem.There a lot of games on steam that are made with unity and have the same structure without any problem.

 

Thank you. So the Build Report lists all the Unused Assets and some are HUGE. I've deleted them but it doesn't seem to make a difference in build size. Is this expected?

 

Yeah, Unity should already have been automatically excluding unused assets from the build.

 

Unity does excludes all unused assets that are not linked in any scene used. It even strips unused shader variants aggressively.
Keep in mind that the content of the resources folder will always be included since it can be loaded any time at runtime.
And the streamingAssets folder that will be just copied over