I had a DVD of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky from an old GPU I bought, I put in its key when I first heard of that. Its key worked, which was great because that DVD had terrible DRM, the cracks for it were buggy, and I remember it being so hard to find the right patch to update the game (some malicious ...

Put the download URL into JDownloader or Mipony (the program will take care of downloading all the parts for you), and do not worry about 4shared and its "attention": what they want you to do is to download the file , it's their business. They're a file hosting company after all. :mrgreen: .

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anyway, thank you all for your input. I think this is what I should do from now on:

MDS/MDF at all times, EXCEPT when there are "hidden" audio tracks.

CUE/BIN for "hidden" audio tracks.

ISO only when I come across CUE/BIN, CCD/IMG/SUB when (*only when*) being in those formats is pointless ...

You don't actually save that much space by converting cd images to iso and then compressing them. In fact you waste more of your time doing it... so go ahead and do it if your time means nothing to you.

I do save space, otherwise why would I say it? try RAR5 or ZPAQ max settings on 64-bit OS ...

ive been using Amazon Cloud Drive https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home for many months. its 59.99USD a year for "Unlimited Everything" and you get 100TB of Amazon S3 space. its basically a poor man's S3 though, because you dont get all the fancy S3 tools. Its really just a place to store archives ...