It appears I don't need the Common folder anymore

[doveman 7]

I'm not entirely sure and it's not controllable by the modline but I guess the files in Common are loaded before everything.

I currently have a copy of this folder just in my A2OA folder and may have merged the A2 and A2OA folders so it might not be correct but I note that it has some files that are duplicated in A2\Addons as listed below (A2 on the left, Common on the right) with generally larger versions) , so I guessed I should delete those, as if Common is being loaded first it's a waste of time loading the files from there, only to have them overwritten by the versions in A2\Addons (admittedly I realise ArmA doesn't actually load all these files at launch and so I'm not sure what, if any, difference it might make in load times having to do this). After deleting those, my Common folder was down from 3.42GB to 305MB but those are all BAF or PMC files (I presume from the lite versions) and as I have the full versions, those seem redundant as well. The upshot of this is that I've deleted the Common folder with no apparent ill-effects. If I try and launch without BAF and PMC enabled then I do get errors but that's understandable.

It's nice not having to be concerned with Common anymore, as I'm running a lot of A2\Addons and A2\Expansion\Addons from RAMDisk as was concerned that not having Common on the RAMDisk as well might be slowing me down. I've only got 16GB but if I had 24GB or more it would be feasible to make a roughly 12.3GB RAMDisk (I can currently just about manage an 11GB one, leaving about 2.5GB for ArmA to run) to hold the entire contents of those two folders and just have mods loaded from HDD.

,a10.pbo,"15,499,582",update ->,,a10.pbo,"15,514,732"

,ah64.pbo,"20,157,449",update ->,,ah64.pbo,"12,907"

,air.pbo,"120,178,267",update ->,,air.pbo,"63,637,565"

,air2.pbo,"285,781,968",update ->,,air2.pbo,"157,894,680"

,Air3.pbo,"22,111,216",update ->,,air3.pbo,"268,471"

,animals.pbo,"10,263,388",update ->,,animals.pbo,"10,263,388"

,animals2.pbo,"78,489,410",update ->,,animals2.pbo,"78,489,410"

,anims.pbo,"650,211,825",update ->,,anims.pbo,"650,211,825"

,buildings.pbo,"251,863,094",update ->,,buildings.pbo,"58,100,345"

,buildings2.pbo,"359,035,400",update ->,,buildings2.pbo,"76,599,188"

,buildings2_Ind_CementWorks.pbo,"62,030,732",update ->,,buildings2_ind_cementworks.pbo,"6,961,258"

,Ca.pbo,"135,790,858",update ->,,ca.pbo,"135,729,968"

,characters.pbo,"244,748,642",update ->,,characters.pbo,"244,748,642"

,characters2.pbo,"853,343,668",update ->,,characters2.pbo,"177,116,259"

,dubbing.pbo,"1,092,528,258",update ->,,dubbing.pbo,"1,426"

,editor.pbo,"92,878",update ->,,editor.pbo,"92,878"

,misc.pbo,"219,614,137",update ->,,misc.pbo,"172,399,732"

,misc2.pbo,"47,538,300",update ->,,misc2.pbo,"45,920,685"

,misc3.pbo,"137,412,062",update ->,,misc3.pbo,"125,795,552"

,missions.pbo,"35,519,147",update ->,,missions.pbo,"2,406,277"

,modules.pbo,"2,285,195",update ->,,modules.pbo,"2,270,306"

,Roads2.pbo,"190,002,902",update ->,,roads2.pbo,"19,322,525"

,sounds.pbo,"389,161,553",update ->,,sounds.pbo,"389,161,553"

,structures.pbo,"907,914,948",update ->,,structures.pbo,"257,981,140"

,tracked.pbo,"99,264,478",update ->,,tracked.pbo,"83,464,400"

,tracked2.pbo,"200,221,497",update ->,,tracked2.pbo,"46,529,278"

,UIFonts.pbo,"20,351,905",update ->,,UIFonts.pbo,"20,351,905"

,water2.pbo,"102,639,823",update ->,,water2.pbo,"2,365,273"

,weapons.pbo,"467,211,710",update ->,,weapons.pbo,"276,939,839"

,weapons2.pbo,"18,072,440",update ->,,weapons2.pbo,"8,414,696"

,wheeled.pbo,"226,405,677",update ->,,wheeled.pbo,"125,600,153"

,wheeled2.pbo,"312,305,399",update ->,,wheeled2.pbo,"99,569,483"

,wheeled3.pbo,"6,687,229",update ->,,wheeled3.pbo,"3,215,935"