GCF Extractor?

[JamminR]

Years ago, I used GCFScape to extract some files.
Latest version is 1.85 from 2009.

It doesn't seem to work on the newest Source GCF files from ~2013.

Anyone point me in the direction of a similar utility that will work for the latest GCFs?

[Decicus]

You mean the .VPKs? I haven't see .GCFs in a while, so I assume so.

I don't quite remember, but I'm pretty sure if you open the _dir.vpk file, it will still work with GCFScape.

[MrPresident]

Newest version of GCFScape that I have is 1.8.5. Build date was 10/17/2013 and it works great with the new VPK structures.

[JamminR]

re: Gcf.
Interesting, I have several GCF's in my steamapps directory (where I'm used to them being years ago)

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Directory of D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps

11/19/2013  12:34 AM     1,288,837,372 episode 1 shared.gcf
11/19/2013  12:34 AM     1,512,870,080 episode two content.gcf
11/19/2013  12:34 AM       708,563,112 episode two maps.gcf
11/19/2013  12:34 AM       703,458,720 episode two materials.gcf
11/19/2013  12:34 AM       286,271,308 episodic 2007 shared.gcf
11/19/2013  12:34 AM       502,615,368 half-life 2 episode one spanish.gcf
04/21/2013  10:50 PM       524,462,868 half-life 2 episode two english.gcf
06/20/2010  11:35 PM            86,956 portal the first slice.gcf
11/19/2013  12:34 AM           157,700 sourceinit.gcf
02/13/2013  12:08 AM        36,538,052 winui.gcf
              10 File(s)  5,563,861,536 bytes

I've played (and allowed Steam to "update") all the games listed as part of the filenames since the 2013 update.
I was not aware of the VPK being the new GCF archive.

I did find some VPK files in various folders that do indeed seem related to these games.

RE: GCFScape
I mistakenly quoted my gcfscape version (I did download latest, but saw on web somehow the 1.8.0 version). It was late for me. Oops.
Though GCFscape will open/extract the VPK files I found, they will not extract (but will list internal names/directory structure) of the GCF files I have listed above.

So, can I save 5+ GB of space and safely delete those GCFs?

[Decicus]

I would assume they're safe to delete. I don't have them at least, my files are divided into Half-Life 2/ep2 and Half-Life 2/episodic with only VPKs inside those folders again for the HL2 episodes.

[JamminR]

I'll offload them to a spare drive and see if any issues occur.
I'm in the middle of replaying Ep2 anyway. Will be a good test, at least for ep2.