The Trove and other resources

[icycalm]

TL;DR: If you have 3+ TB of free drive space, please download all the zip files and run all the torrents found inside and grab all the files and keep them safe for me, I really need them (and let me know when you've started and finished the process by posting here, and if more than one person can do this, so much the better): https://mega.nz/folder/uktzzTAI#KfV-EWdhd15FhHNn5HndHg



Full post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/com ... _available

The Ultimate Trove Collection Redux! Now Available!

What is all of this? Well, it's THE ULTIMATE TROVE RPG Collection!

What's contained in here?

1. My original rip of the Trove website about a month before it was taken down. I wasn't able to get a few of the Assets folders before it went down, but, this was taken care of by...

2. The Trove v1.5 torrent - an "official" (of sorts) torrent of the original site

3. PLUS The Trove v2.0 torrent

All of the above combined together!

I've tried to remove many duplicates - especially in the Books and Magazines folders. There's bound to be some duplicates as I've not meticulously gone through each and every folder/subfolder looking for dupes (I did use a few passes of DupeGuru with settings between 95 and 100 to find dupes in an "easier" way - which helped!)

In total, it's over 3TB of data, across more than 47K sub-directories, storing more than 560K individual files!

I did break up the Assets and Books folders to make them easier to manage. Some sub-folders I also ended up 7-zipping up because for whatever reason, some had files with issues that hung up the client. After creating the 7-zip file, no more issues. So be on the lookout for the .7z files in some folders - can extract them into their properly named folder after downloading.

You can grab the files here:

mega(dot)nz/folder/uktzzTAI#KfV-EWdhd15FhHNn5HndHg

I need people to help seed - I have decent internet but nothing out of this world!

Lastly, I want to provide semi-regular updates with new data. If you have any files not contained in this archive of data, please upload it somewhere and email me the link: ultimatetrove@proton.me - would be great if you could tell me the game system(s) the file(s) are for, edition, etc.

Edit 1 - Had someone report that the link shared wasn't happy. I refreshed the link above and tested in 3 different browsers and the list of files displayed properly. Please send me a chat/message if you experience any issues!

Edit 2 - to those reporting no files, etc... not sure what to tell you. Using the link above (and correcting for the (dot), in 4 different browsers, shows the files. Multiple folks are grabbing the files, so it's not an issue with the files in the Mega folder above either.

Edit 3 - I'm targeting 1st update release to be before the end of the month. So if you find that you have some stuff that isn't included, please see the bold section above and reach out!

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CULT|icycalm
@CULT|shubn can you take care of the above?

CULT|shubn
Hmm I don't have 3 TB of free space right now, but I'm taking a look at what I can delete to make space.

CULT|icycalm
I suppose you're counting deleting previous Trove versions, right?

CULT|shubn
That's one of the potential options.

CULT|icycalm
Don't think about that, just do it. No sense in keeping that stuff.

CULT|shubn
Alright.

CULT|ExiledOne
I think I can help too. I had a drive specifically for this stuff. I just have to backup some of the website archives and the 5E stuff, then format it. I kinda fucked up on the drive format anyways so it works out well actually (it's in EXFAT instead of NTFS which is supposed to be terrible for long-term storage and it's slow as fuck).
It's a 5TB drive.

CULT|icycalm
Cool, we could use an extra copy. Also, heads-up for @CULT|danjiro if you want a copy of the Trove too... look up the last link above.
I am especially looking forward to getting all the latest 2E PF stuff that wasn't out yet for the earlier Trove versions.

CULT|shubn
Ok I made a bunch of space. I'll start downloading tonight.

CULT|icycalm
Keep us posted.
Not too long from now I'll also be able to download this. But the seeds might disappear any moment, so we got to do this now.

CULT|shubn
I guess I should start with PF and D&D?

CULT|icycalm
Exactly.
Then Dragon and Dungeon magazines.

CULT|shubn
I deleted a bunch of stuff from my NAS to free up 1 TB and started downloading, starting with Pathfinder. I only managed to download 20 GB out of the 100 GB of Pathfinder books so far, because there is only one seeder and few peers. I haven't deleted my old Trove archives yet, just in case this one doesn't end up working out, but I will once I get further along the process and start needing space.

CULT|danjiro
Nice, thanks for the heads up! I should be able to start downloading them all today.

CULT|ExiledOne
Had a lot of trouble formatting that drive I mentioned before. I basically couldn't do it in Windows at all initially so I had to delete the partition in Linux (which took several hours) then make a new one in Windows. I'll be able to start downloading now too.

CULT|icycalm
So we got 3 people downloading. Sounds good.

CULT|danjiro
I've got all the book and magazine categories downloaded. I might get the rest this weekend.

CULT|icycalm
Good to hear, we finally got there after that catastrophe years back.

CULT|shubn
I've got the Pathfinder folder and a good chunk of D&D done. Continuing tonight.

CULT|ExiledOne
Seems my hard drive for this died on me while I was in the process of backing up these files. It's weird because it's only been 3 years and it was specifically for cold storage.

CULT|icycalm
Next Starfinder.

[icycalm]

From 3 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTrove/comme ... nt/m4lfyec

This round is about 4.5GB of "new" TTRPG stuff/magazines/comics and about 94GB of 3D miniature stuff.

I have a bunch more TTRPG type stuff for the next update - it just takes a lot longer to dupe check (especially since I got a couple of huge Pathfinder 1/2 collections) the TTRPG stuff compared to the 3D files.

Next update I think I'll split into 3D and non-3D stuff - as I know some folks could care less about the 3D stuff (not everyone wants to print their own minis!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTrove/comme ... nt/m4j2sjq

Any chance you can include some kind of index or contents file so it's clear what's included in each of the various downloads please?

I'm not going to put in the time for that I'm afraid. Just managing the vast amount of data is pain enough.

I'd be happy to include any index list/spreadsheet with future updates if someone else wanted to go through everything to generate them as things are released. I'd just post them into a folder in the MEGA share for anyone to grab.

We really need the "huge Pathfinder 1/2 collections" and also the 3D stuff. I am building a whole metaverse of 3D stuff, I can use every last file I can get.

It might seem like a headache to redownload everything 4-5 times a year, but considering what we're getting, I think it's a bargain. We could also stagger our downloads so that one person grabs this update, then another the next one, etc. If I wasn't homeless, I would 100% be downloading every update the moment this guy posted it. He says he has 16 seeders now, so it shouldn't be as slow as before.

From 5 hours ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/com ... nt/m51vhc4

I'm seeding every file... and all files have 16+ seeders currently.

At any rate, everyone do what they can, and even if you can only update your collection say once a year, that's still helpful. I follow this guy on Reddit and will be bumping this thread every time he updates.

We need above all PF, SF, D&D, Dungeon & Dragon magazines, and 3D files, but also Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, the new Marvel RPG and all the old ones, and basically... everything. I fully plan to run all the stuff I listed, and more.