IYHO, the best custom content manager?

[divinebovine]

I have the Sims 3 and all expansions/stuff packs installed as well as Barnacle Bay. I downloaded Hidden Springs from here because I didn't think it was worth paying 20 bucks for just an extra world slowing down my computer. I have decided to take it off of my computer and found the package file for the world itself, but it's been so long that I don't remember if there were other files associated with it and I want to make sure I got everything. I also have a Sims3Pack installer which has unzipped my S3Packs into a Mods folder, but as a result, there's a lot of objects with names like 0xc8ea12feabcf5eae46d707bad318c532.package and I don't want to delete them if they're really important.

What utility would you recommend for organizing this content to see what I can safely delete/categorize?

[HomeschooledByTards]

CCMagic at MTS.

There's a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it it's really awesome.

[divinebovine]

OK. I installed it and I was able to move all my CAS CC into one folder, my hacks/mods into another and my Objects into another. I have a folder with about 35 items that show up as Unknown, no thumbnail of anything and they all have garbled names like the example in my first post. I have a feeling that they may be part of another download (I downloaded two Sims from the Exchange) so I don't want to delete them if they're needed, but some of the files are kind of big and I don't want them there if they don't have to be.

[bitterquill]

You could always open them with s3pe to see what they are.

[HomeschooledByTards]

I deleted all my unknown files with funkyass names. I have an unknown file that has a name, twallan's nocd, but otherwise: trash.

I, however, like to live dangerously. YMMV.

[dragoness]

If they have long, funky names, you got them from the download of a lot (or possibly a sim, I think sim-related CC can get dumped there too). Personally, if I didn't download it on purpose I don't have any interest in it, and on the rare occasion I find those I just delete them.

You could make a backup of your save, yank the mystery files, and go see if anything important turns up missing. Odds are you won't be able to find anything different, and if it does explode that's what the backup is for.

[Skadi]

CC magic made my game load so much faster. I don't care about organising it all, I just like the merging options.

CAS is actually usable again!

[HomeschooledByTards]

If they have long, funky names, you got them from the download of a lot (or possibly a sim, I think sim-related CC can get dumped there too).

You can also get those names if you use Delphy's Sims3Pack Multi Installer. I ran a bunch of store Sims3Packs through that and have over 2000 funky ass named CC files now.

[divinebovine]

If they have long, funky names, you got them from the download of a lot (or possibly a sim, I think sim-related CC can get dumped there too).

You can also get those names if you use Delphy's Sims3Pack Multi Installer. I ran a bunch of store Sims3Packs through that and have over 2000 funky ass named CC files now.

Yeah, that is exactly what happened. Is there a mirror for a Merlin download anywhere? I keep getting linked back to TSR and it's a broken link.

[HomeschooledByTards]

You might try S3OC instead of S3PE, because it's a little more user-friendly. It'll let you re-categorize things as well.

[jezzer]

It'll let you re-categorize things as well.

So will S3PE.

* jezzer harrumph

[HomeschooledByTards]

Sure it will, but S3OC is EEEEEEEASSSSYYYYYY. S3PE confuses the hell out of me.