Question about decrapifying.

[LadyElDi]

Hello,

I've searched google and this forum but nothing definitive comes up.
I'm a moderator over at G4TW forum and one of our users has a problem installing sims3packs. Every one of them fails due to a "software failure".

She mentioned decrapifying all of them, only I know for a fact that the ones she downloaded had already been decrapified. Could this be responsible for the error she's having?

[Madame Mim]

Yes. Downloading decrapped files is a danger because older versions of the decrapper may not have functioned properly. Double decrapping does not do any harm of which I am aware.

[LadyElDi]

Ok I'll keep that mind for future reference.
The files all work fine for other users though, so it's probably something else preventing her from installing these sims3packs.

[jezzer]

Ok I'll keep that mind for future reference.
The files all work fine for other users though, so it's probably something else preventing her from installing these sims3packs.

You've done all you could.  Perhaps she's just stupid.

[ForkInToaster]

Ask her specifically what is going on. If it's a decrap problem, she should get a launcher message about updating her game, not a random "software failure."  I double decrap all the time. I'm on a Mac, so I only download decrapped files. If they don't work, I download them onto my PC, decrap and upload to my cloud storage. It's kind of a pain, but it works.   If she's getting crashing, perhaps a reinstall?