So I’ve been running into an issue with my project.
I have about 1Gb data in my Assets folder, most of this are textures, but my entire project folder is almost 20GB!
8.5GB is in the Library folder, and 7.3GB is in the Temp folder.
As seen here:
Any idea what might be causing this and how I could solve this issue?
The StagingArea folder is related to Android builds, I think, and it’s massive. But this may just be how things are, therefore unavoidable (it’s in temporary data, which should clear up eventually). The metadata folder is definitely absurd though. Do you have an awful lot of files in your project? Each file elsewhere adds at least a 1-4k metadata file. If you don’t have tens of thousands of files, that looks like a bug.
As you can see, I have quite a few files (the number after the 1GB is amount of items - then files).
So theres 6310 files and 210 folders.
But even then, it’s so big…
I’ve tried copying the assets folder over to a new project btw, same result.
You’re not getting weirdly bloated final builds too?
APK’s are roughly 500mb, which is large for an apk but for the amount of textures I suppose it’s to be expected?
I dunno. It’s probably fine - relative to the size of your project folder 
I’ve had some huge library folders in projects, but then I’ve also dumped “one of everything” into them just for testing. I have to really work hard to reach 8GB though, even with a library of assets many times that size to choose from. I can’t say for sure if the bloat you’re seeing is to be expected or not 
Hmm, let’s hope someone from the Unity dev’s sees this soon then 
They should be recovering from Unity now, so hopefully very soon
Did you format this harddisk with a huuuge cluster size? You see, on a HD with a 32kB cluster size a small 500 bytes file would still occupy 32 kb
I didnt think about that yet Tril, but I don’t think that’d be the issue. My cluster size is 4k
Ignore the only 9GB left, I’ve been copying to other projects and have my SSD stacked with the same project over and over now 
Also second question, (should I start a second thread for this?)
Other project, comparable situation - 1.6GB assets with a lot of textures
9.6GB metadata in the Library folder…
and 37GB memory usage.
…?
This is the point that Unity crashed btw, it didnt actually manage to load in the scene.
yeah the project ive been working on for a year just did this to me after upgrading from 2018.1 to 2018.2. I probably have over 1000 component references, months of tweaking values, all reset. I dont even know how to handle this right now.
Just use yesterday’s backup.
Also, you’ve necroposted a two year old topic that isn’t even relevant.