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Title: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: Killzone on 2011 February 16, 16:30:07
My current neighbourhood has 202 Sim character files totaling 118MB. Some of these files were over 2MBs in size and I investigated further.

In nearly every instance the cause of the large size of character file was due to the Sim having photo booth pictures in their inventory. The Sims with 3 photo booth pictures had the largest files. (Just from my observations it seems Sims don't have more than 3 photos taken autonomously in their inventory - maybe a limitation?)

I had a Sim throw several large parties, selected all Sims and deleted the photo-booth pictures in their inventories. The result was the character files reduced in size from a total of 118MB to 90MB, nearly a 25% reduction.

Just a couple of examples:-

Sim A character file 2.25MB - after deleting 3 photo-booth pictures size reduced to 268KB
Sim B character file 2.09MB - after deleting 3 photo-booth pictures size reduced to 267KB

Is there a hack available to stop this behaviour?, I Googled but failed to find anything, but I'm old and senile and fail at a lot of things.

On a separate note, are the Sim's memories stored in their character files? Using the Bat-box I deleted trash memories, and even when some Sims had over 50 memories deleted there was no noticeable reduction in size of the character files.


Title: Re: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: Jack Rudd on 2011 February 16, 19:40:58
Have you tried The One Shiny?


Title: Re: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: snabul on 2011 February 17, 18:21:37
In my game, sims never take photo-booth pictures autonomously.
This is why I guess that it is a mod making your sims doing that at all.


Title: Re: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: rufio on 2011 February 17, 23:59:42
FWIW, I have no photo-booth-related mods, and I have had uncontrollable sims autonomously take photos, though it only seems to happen once in a blue moon.  Probably your lots just need more distractions.


Title: Re: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2011 February 18, 00:48:27
Try the Autonomy Controller. You can use it to proscribe annoying objects.


Title: Re: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: Bonitinha on 2012 January 11, 16:38:54
Sorry the my ignorance but what is photo-booth??


Title: Re: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: SJActress on 2012 January 11, 17:22:24
Sorry the my ignorance but what is photo-booth??

It's found on community lots. It looks like this. (http://www.rockstar-photobooth-rental.com/photo-booth-rental-packages-southern-california.html)


Title: Re: Anyway to stop Sims autonomously taking photo-booth pictures?
Post by: Bonitinha on 2012 January 11, 18:28:34
Oh i see! Thanks! I didn't know they were taking it autonomous!