Review of the Sims2 Content Manager

[cwieberdink]

To bring this back to the topic of content manager, I did scan a handful of those uncategorized letter/number jumble items with datgen.  It appears that at least the 10 or so that I opened have texture and/or image files.  One was grass, one was rocks, one was the picture of a lipstick, and a few had skin information.  So are these useful files after all?  Is there any way to rename them and have them still work properly?

Chris

I still haven't seen any answer to this, so thought I'd bump it.  Are these files just garbage pieces of these textures and objects and skins, or are they useful files?

Chris

[JenW]

In the course of cleaning out my downloads folder, I came to the conclusion that these are indeed useful files...annoyingly enough, when you download a lot or Sim with custom stuff, the custom stuff is given a garbage file name rather than the original file name (which probably actually made some sense). I deleted a bunch before I realized this, and now I have some houses missing wallpapers....

Jen

[ZephyrZodiac]

If you check these "garbage" files in SimPE to find out where they came from, you could download the original file, use the multiinstaller to install them to a folder, then put them where you want them and delete the "garbage file " afterwards.  That way, the walls in your houses should not disappear - at least, mine haven't.

[JenW]

Except that I have houses with walls and floors that have not been uploaded separately anywhere

Jen

[ZephyrZodiac]

That is a nuisance!  I suppose you could get the house again and reinstall it, that way those files should reappear, then instead of deleting them, if you put them in a file with a clear label so you know what they are, you don't run the risk of forgetting in the future.

[Becky]

Okay, well at least I feel better now.  I just downloaded CM tonight to try it, and whaddya know, it wouldn't open; got stuck, with task mgr saying "not responding."   I'm glad I decided to come here and see if anyone else had the same problem.  As others pointed out, it probably wasn't "broken," just churning through all my downloads.  I guess it's not a good idea to have a downloads folder that's almost a gig.  At least not if I want to use a Maxis tool.  <sigh> 

Anyway, I registered here mostly just to post this reply and say THANK YOU to all of you for relaying your experiences and thus allaying my fears.    I've been lurking about since Pescado created this site, but I'm shy   

Anyway, enough of my simpering.  Pescado, YOU ROCK!!   I don't know how I ever played the Sims2 without your hacks and particularly your FIXES.  If EA/Maxis knew what was good for them, they'd hire you as a full-time consultant!

Thanks again, everyone,
Becky

[Lerf]

Only a mere gb of stuff in your Downloads folder? 

I've got over 4 GB and counting. You should see how long it takes to try to run Body Shop -- when it doesn't just crash on me before it's finished.