Personally, I've got no issues running on Win7 x64...

grr, tried to edit my previous message, and it SAID it was edited, but the edits didn't show up... so I'm replying to my own reply.

ANYWAY...

Stupidity aside. Is it the "Sunset Valley_0x0859db3c.nhd" within the save folder we should be running this tool on to shrinkify the saves? Because with further experimentation (lacking any actual documentation that would consist of about 1 sentence), that's the only file in the save folder that does anything. It sits at a blank prompt for about 2 minutes and then says "Done"... didn't appear to make the file any smaller, but it did touch the timestamp!

Whatever.... we'll see if it makes any difference.

Look, I was using a computer probably before you were out of diapers... My first computer was a lowly Vic-20. I have been through using THAT, all the way through DOS, OS/2, Desqview/X, the horrors of the original win95, Linux, Beos and many more.

Now, the point is - I can get the help readout that gives command line options. FACT IS IT DOES NOTHING when given the save folder, with any combination of wildcards. It doesn't have to do with "too dumb", it has to do with we're not psychic to see what exactly the hell we're supposed to do to get this to work. I have "dragged and dropped" and it did nothing for my save folder, I have used wildcards at the commandline, etc, etc.. It doesn't appear to do anything or worse, it gives errors.

So .. either it simply doesn't work with the new save format, or some frickin documentation might be useful for us non-psycic folks. Saying people are "too dumb" to figure out what you know but ain't sharing is offensive.

Okay, color me confused as hell here...

With the recent patches, there isn't a save file - there's a save DIRECTORY with multiple different files in it... I've tried following the vague suggestions in this thread about "dragging and dropping onto s3rc.exe"... and there's also decrapify.exe in the archive...

Can someone please just post some simple instructions for using this, as it doesn't seem to actually do anything with the save files... or does it not work with the new save format or what?

Question & Suggestion:

Q: Has anyone determined what advantage there is using "import as dbc" over "import as package"? I tend to have fewer issues using Import as Package it seems.

S: Have found managing all these files, juggling backup folders, already merged folders, testing, new downloads, etc... MUCH easier using a quad-pane file manager ... http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir is awesome for managing all these files in random locations on hard drives, and is free... no I'm not associated with them, but if you're tired of juggling multiple explorer windows, there ya go

Any chance of a fix on the 3 or 4 routing issues that have cropped up? I downloaded this under the (albeit mistaken) impression that there had been an update since the problems were reported, guess there hadn't been. Just had to rescue 3 sims from the back of the diner.