Would it be possible to make a MEGA drive, with folder names like [AUTHOR] MAKE_MODEL_TRIM_YEAR (.zip file name).
I could fill my MEGA drive with NFS4 cars from your archive.
Or if you need space to upload more NFS4 cars, I can upload them on mine. I also have Mediafire, but that is mainly used for NFS MW hidden / lost mods.
Currently I have used:
- 38MB out of 20GB in MEGA;
- 2,22 GB out of 10GB in Mediafire.
P.S. I could upload the leftover files from MEGA to Mediafire, just so it's completely empty.
I can't rename all the files. Also the filenames for me are very important because then i know what i already have and what can get thrown away. If i rename every single archive, i also wouldn't know anymore where i got them from in specific cases. Taking the 38MB to MediaFire so that MEGA is completely empty is a good idea. I don't know what to do with this archive in the mere future. It is mainly intended as a backup and spreading machine for files not to get lost. I don't know if it's possible to download all files at once, but if i were you, i would do that. If a file has no Readme or any text file in which there is info about the car or author it's senseless to search for it anyway. Or to rename the whole file. This filename system was very important for me in the past to be absolutely súre that there was not a single car missing from any website i've downloaded
I tried to download the whole thing about a year ago, not too long after you shared your archive with us. I think it was possible back then to just 'download' the whole folder at once, but recently I couldn't find anywhere on the Mega page where that option was (it wasn't the 'download as zip' feauture). It may have been changed since last year. Somehow only 9900 of the 11k files ended up on my harddrive, not sure why.
I decided to re-download the whole archive again yesterday toe make sure I had absolutely everything, this time using an app called Megadownloader.
http://megadownloaderapp.blogspot.com/ (Edit: The Download page there does not work, but the latest version -1.8- is also available on Filehippo, Softpedia and similar hosting sites)
That did the trick pretty well, faster than last year, too (about 4 hours, where last year I had to leave my pc running overnight) So I have a full backup of the archive, at least.
About finding the right file, that has always been an issue if you have a large archive of files that have not all been clearly named: Open a Zip called "02cv" when looking for a vintage Citroën 2CV and you may end up with a 2002 Crown Victoria instead.
I usually use the Windows Explorer search function to search for a model (usually I search for the author which works quicker) since that can search the contents of Zip/Rar and thus also the text content of readme files. I haven't tested if it can search the contents of absolutely every type of compressed arcive (cab, ace, 7z, etc) but it works for the majority.
If the filename is unclear and no readme included either, I usually resort to quickly opening the .viv file with NFSWizard to see what I'm dealing with.
Oh, and on the topic of Fiedo's cars, these are all his cars that were on JP Racing:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1p48a7ermrg9julmc8tc3/Fiedo.zip?rlkey=lrr08seuwlj0lvzzve6h7o765&dl=0(27 mb, 13 cars with matching preview screens)
I sadly do not have a 100% complete backup of every NFS4 mod made by JP Racing himself.