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1  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: restoring deleted sims? on: 2006 February 09, 07:23:50
 
Well though this thread has gotten off topic a bit I solved the problem finally.

dunno where u guys get the time but for me here its like 2am and I finally had a chance to try some things out, an hour ago. so heres how it all went down:

Nectere and Zeph you guys were right the first time about the .bak files.. I deleted the orginal files, changed the .bak formats to .package and wa-lah! My sims that i deleted were back to how i first had them before tweakings. Which is ok. woo.. to make sure it worked, i went into the game and boolproped them into a family, and it worked they showed up in the boolprop movei n menu! Thanks a bunch! I hope this thread taught us all a tiny something. I knew there was a way i jsut needed some advice. I think you's all came up with every possible answer and finally..someone had it right.

Goodnight guys.
 This thread can be closed or whatever i dont know how that works. but yeah.. problem solved!
2  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: restoring deleted sims? on: 2006 February 08, 04:21:39
aight guys im not home yet so i havent tested out anything new but SIMSAMPLE from the modthesims2 forums offered this little peice of info for me which i will also look into. seems tedious though. its how to change sims' dna coding.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=1423.0
3  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: restoring deleted sims? on: 2006 February 08, 01:23:21
gah, you cant clone a character that has no charcater data.

As far as the .bak files you would simply change the extension from .bak to .package, but it wont let you do that until you delete the same .package file (the one that is messed up and that you are replacing)

thankyou for not being sore about this. i do apoligize for sounding mean. I'm going out now, upon my return I shall try all this and let you guys know. thanks again.
4  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: restoring deleted sims? on: 2006 February 08, 01:19:58
and as i did say....i wasn't trying to be a jerk. I wasn't attempting to be rude. I was being funny. It is some of you who were alittle rough around the edges. But as you can see I still havent gotten to the bottom of this, and i dont think they are gone because Zeph keeps offering new ideas. Thankyou Zeph. I will try once you get back to my last question. above^
5  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: restoring deleted sims? on: 2006 February 08, 01:17:05
by the way with those .bak files.. DO they work when you change the format back to package etc? and if I messed with them alot before does it keep saving over the orginal back file or what because since i tried so many times now, it might have made alternate back files or copied over you kno?
I find it hard to understand why cloning shouldn't work - I've cloned ghosts with no problems such as you describe.  Even where the file is only 25KB, basically if the face and dna are there, then they can be cloned, at least that's what I found.  Only thing that springs to mind now is, which version of SimPE are you using, and are you using the new interface or the classic.  If you're using the new interface, why not try the classic, there are definitely differences in how they work.
yeah and thats a good idea, i had the old one.. now i have like one of the later copies.. not the latest i dont know which it is. is there a way to change from classic or new etc within the program or do i have to redownload the old one.
even if i do this, when i save the extracted file where do i save it to the "saved sims" folder or what?
AND does it save under the same format as the other sims in there, or..a diff one like the new simpe, and if it is diff does it matter? will it still show up.
its supposed to show in CAS/bodyshop yes?
6  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: restoring deleted sims? on: 2006 February 08, 01:03:19
Firstly, I don't understand how you guys can go about saying that I'm speaking a foreign language. No word rules/formations in other languages I know are even remotely similar to the words I used? Excuse my typos. Jeez. Can we just ignore the jargon and misspellings and fix the problem if you really do not have an answer why would you even bother replying? thats silly. when people just go oh thats odd gee that never happened to me i dont know the way to fix it.  sorry
well thankyou for your fine help anyway.
But, I believe youz'all  kinda misunderstood. Except the ZephyrZodiac i think he/she had it kinda.. anyway


ALLOW ME TO BE MORE EXPLANATORY:

I use SimPe alot to mess with the sims. Blah blah I made a bunch of sims in CAS, and they went into the Homless Sims Bin.
I accidently deleted them. Dead sims in the latest SIMpe show up like with a blue screen etc, Deleted Sims with "Unlinked" or "No charactor file" show up red i believe. So they are all red. first I tried boolproping them into the Burb's family that didn't work. Then I tried the Resurrect-o-nom, and I made the person who used it "Know everyone", that didnt work. They didn't show up in the list of dead sims probably because they did not die. Then I tried moving them into other families, in SimPe, I moved them into the Oldie's family. When I tried loading the Oldies every consecutive time, They just were in infinite load screen you know "Loading the Oldies." The deleted sims appeared on that load screen standing with the Oldies. But No, they do not show up in my CAS bin, or in Bodyshop's bin, or in the Homless Sims bin.
My next attempt was to try and use Sims Surgery in Simpe to export them into Body Shop. For those of you who don't know this heres what it does:

That's the tool you use to extract a sim's aesthetic appearence into BodyShop to tweak. Lets say you think Kalylynn Langerak is ugly as sin, looks like a man, bushy eyebrows, what have you... you can export her via the Sim Surgery tool, and it saves her file in the same format as one would have in BodyShop. You save her to "Saved Sims", and shell show up in BodyShop or CAS. Then you make a new sim in CAS using her as the base, tweak her to the desired appearance whatever, (the personality,aspiration,etc doesnt matter as only the appearance is what's changed), and you name her something like "Kaly2 New". Leave her in the homeless sims bin and exit. Then go back into SiMpe's Surgery tool, take the real Kalylynn "use" her face as the before face, and Kaly2 as the after face. The real Kalylynn will now LOOK like the kaly2 when you save. and you can delete kaly2 because she is just a useless look-alike.

THIS IS WHAT I TRIED TO DO NEXT. Except, the deleted sims do not show up in the list of sims to choose from to export for surgey probably because they are unlinked etc. So i can't do that.
Next step was to try to Clone them in SIMpe but they still show up with the red backround meaning they are still deleted sims.
NEXT i tried using the extract sim option in SIMpe but i noticed the file format is different from that of the sims in the "Charactors" folder or "Saved Sims" folder, and I was simply wondering if saving with this file format would still work or not? will the sim show up in BOdyshop/CAS under this format? has anyone tried it and what's the outcome? I realised i porbably can't get the ACTUAL sims back, so i figured theres some way to make a clone, or export their looks into bodyshop so I don't have to start from scratch.


Is that clearer? I apoligize if I wasn't before. anyway, so now that I've been completely thorough with you English Buffs, will you please offer some knowledgable advice? And please don't if you don't know it's irritating to have mail saying I have replies when they are just people criticizing my use of conversational english, or telling me they "Don't know" that's alittle silly agreed?
I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just would prefer not to have to sort through answers that arent exactly answers. see?
Thankyou'z guys again.
peacee.
7  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / restoring deleted sims? on: 2006 February 07, 22:11:24
Hey.. I made some custom sims in pleasantview and they were all in one family to save time. I went into simpe and severed their relationsions and made them all cool and stuf fwhatever u kno modded them up and when i went back to pleasantview i accidently delted them from the sims bin!! ahh
i tried using simpe to get them into other famlies and i tried boolproping them back but they arent available in the bool prop thingy and when i put them in other fams in simpe it jsut crashes those fams..they dont ever load they remain in the waiting screen for hours!!
ahh
so is there a way to restore my deleted simmies..I tried to use the sims surgery tool to extrac them but they arent available in the extract menu prolly because they are considered "unlinked" and "no charactor file". so how can i go about creating these sims again if i ant them to look the same without starting from scratch?? is there a way to extrct them? or restore the orinals?
thanks.
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