How do I check if my cities soon will develop the prop pox?After helping Barby to check the size of her "network subfile" of her saved city files,
I thought others might be interesting in checking their own cities as well.
Let me first quote
bap from his findings:
It was discovered ( see here ) that the props in the city (including street props) are stored in the subfile of Type 2977aa47, also called the ‘network’ subfile. This file grows in size as the city develops. When Prop Pox strikes this file shrinks in size by 200-400 Kby with respect to its size in the previous save game file, causing the sc4 city file to also shrink. The next time you open the city those 200-400 Kby of props will be missing. They were lost in the save game process.
Prop Pox appeared on each city as soon as their network subfile went beyond 6 Mby.
In order to check the size of your city's network subfile, you need to open Reader.
Click
Open and find your
Regions folder under My Docs\Simcity 4.
Browse further into the region you want to check. In my example below the region is Ireland:

In the example above I've chosen Dublin, which is the largest city I've built so far.
As you can see (if you understand a little Swedish), the size of the file itself is just 5 MB, so that's pretty encouraging.
Once you've opened the saved city, it will look as below in Reader.
Now, click the column heading
Type in order to sort the files consecutively, according to their Type ID's.

You may have to click twice in order to get them sorted starting with the lowest number on top.
After this, it should be easy for you to locate the file with the Type ID
2977aa47In the filesize column you can now see the size of that file (you may have to widen the column in order to see it completely).
As you can see, my network subfile is just 1,851,828 bytes... pretty far from 6 MB (which is 6,291,456 bytes).

Thus,
no panic here at least!
