iodfe crashing

[yourGn]

Hi guys,

I noticed that when my quake/defrag directory contains too many files, defrag crashes when I try to play demo from console (using "/demo ..." command). Not sure if this is due to some threshold on the number of maps or demos. Anyone ever had the same issue? I noticed that deleting some files helps, not sure whether I needed to delete demos, or pk3's, I did this long time ago... Now I have the same issue again.

I am running iodfe v3.0 under ubuntu.

1. Is there anything I can do to prevent crashing without deleting any files?
2. If not, does anyone has a script to do the cleaning automatically (e.g., delete all demos, except the fastest one).

Thanks

[[DF]yotoon]

There is a demo cleaner that deletes all demos except the fastest one.
Thats what i am using. GL.

[yourGn]

Thanks yotoon, did you write it yourself? Do you mind sharing the source? If not, does anyone has anything more linux friendly (*)?

* I am aware, that wine could *probably* run that exe, but I'd much rather prefer to first look at the source, or have some script (bash, python, whatever..).

[[DF]yotoon]

Nah, i dont have the source. Downloaded the exe from breakdown-hq years ago.
I can try to write it in python tho, stay tuned

[[DF]yotoon]

Here is the script. Put it in you demos directory and run.
The only third party dependency is the 'natsort' module (you can install it with pip - pip install natsort).

The script wont delete any files on first run. Make sure the output is correct first. If all seems fine, edit the script and uncomment lines that actually delete files (source has comments).

[Mistes.AR]

Here is the script. Put it in you demos directory and run.
The only third party dependency is the 'natsort' module (you can install it with pip - pip install natsort).

The script wont delete any files on first run. Make sure the output is correct first. If all seems fine, edit the script and uncomment lines that actually delete files (source has comments).

Thank you, i need it too

[yourGn]

Thanks yotoon! Cleaning the demo directory helped with crashing, but ..

I'm still a bit unsatisfied with the external dependency and ignoring player names, I have a lot of demos from other people which are usually faster and I'd still like to keep mine.

So.. I wrote my own cleaner in cpp. I posted it in another thread so people can find it easier. Anyway, thanks for your help, was a good motivation to do something about the problem.