Number of files associated with Unity projects

Hi!

I want to take my Unity projects home for the holidays and meant to put them on a thumb-drive. To check if they fit, I used windows explorer and also compressed them into a zip-folder:

• I have 5 projects
• the total number of folders in this tree is 2993
• the total number of files is 48458
• the total size of all files is 2.97 GB (3.193 million bytes)
• the total size on disk is 96.2 GB (103.395 million bytes)
• the size of the compressed zip-archive is 594.359 MB (608624 bytes)

This is a strong feature request to Unity to stop spamming our projects with a unreasonably large number of tiny files. I understand the reason for plain-text readable log files, but this is ludicrous!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...

 

The only things you need in your projects directories are:

• Assets,
• Packages,
• ProjectSettings.

You can remove the rest before storing them in your thumb drive, they will be reconstructed when you open your projects in Unity at home.

 

My thought is, to try defragment disk and see if that helps.
Also saving project as asset, could potentially help organize files.

 

One more issue/annoyance to add into that list
- package and temp file generated hash(?) names are often too long (for windows ~255 char max) and then network backups will throw errors or just cannot copy files manually either (without error messages)