All right, it isn't spring...however I have been pouring over various sites and tutorials looking for tips and tricks and always seem to find one thing that catches my eye. A lot of creators compress their CC before uploading and many Sims 2 players compress their downloads. These same people organize their CC in folders first which, not being very organized, is a foreign concept to me. And I keep losing CC every time I launch Body Shop or even the game and I swear I am not deleting anything.
My question is this - and Veron I hope you are seeing this post because I know you will have sage advice for me - when organizing downloads, say by hair (male/female) clothing (again, male/female and maybe even body shape), or maybe even theme, how do you all do it? Are all the decorative pieces in one folder or are they separated by type (wall, statue, etc). Are all, I mean ALL, meshes in one folder? Walls, floors, where do they go?
I had at one time started doing this by creator but that is not working well, especially if you want to cull. Clean Installer is a useful tool for sorting through CC when it is in smaller chucks in folders. Again I go back to theme...do you put the Halloween stuff in one folder only to be moved out when not in use?
I ask this because I have 9.96 GIGABYTES of CC and tens of thousands (32,046 at my last count) of files in my Downloads folder. So I really would like some input from anyone out there who has a boatload of CC and is blessed with the organizational gene.
Ok I am not the right person to ask with 12.98 GB of CC... Actuall number my computer gave me. 80)
ReplyDeleteI uhm... well my particular folder is still wildly out of control but over the last year I began downloading by date, type, story, etc. But I too have noticed when you place certain items in a folder it disappears from BS. Eh... what can you do so long as it still shows. 80)
well that makes sense...maybe moving it to the subfolder messed some of the items up...
ReplyDeleteAs a CC junkie I have found a need to organize or I'll never find a thing when something inevitably screws up my game. I organize much like the items in the game are organized (buy mode, build mode,etc.) For example under buy mode I subcategorize into bathrooms, bedroom, decor, living rooms, etc. For bodyshop stuff I organize by category as well and separate male and female items into subcategories.
ReplyDeleteDelphy's download organier is a real help because you can filter items (by type, name, creator, etc.) select them and create subfolders to put them into.
The real rub comes in with items that come with lots (I'm slightly bad at decorating so I do have several lots that come furnished) as they get downloaded and saved with those crazy game assigned numbers so you have no clue what the hell it is when look in the downloads folder. I've been keeping them in the main downloads folder until I take time to use Delphy's organizer to sort them out.
To feed my wildly compulsive nauture I also keep and organize all the rar files that I downloaded in the first place into simialr categories just in case my game has a melt down and decides to corupt everything.
Can you tell that I take this pretty seriously? :)
I compressed my CC not so long ago... and it turned to be a pain on the back...a lot of my meshes suddenly disappeared... and my game will crash every time I tried to buy clothes for my sims... (because of the meshes that were missing) (most of the meshes were clothes and skins and some eyes)
ReplyDeleteSo I decided to organize instead of compress.
I created some folders for my downloads
hair,skins, eyes, makeup, clothes and furniture, hacks and pose boxes... are what I have right now, and will always stay in my game...
Whenever I need something else for a chapter, a special item or clothes, I will just add it to the game and remove it when I'm done with it...
so if I'm downloading Xmas or Halloween stuff, I do put it in a folder and then remove it later.. :D
That's what I've done, same thing as S@ndy. I put 'teen' clothes in a folder and remove them when I don't have any teens I'm working with. A lot of the speciality decor is in folders and it comes out when I don't need it. I've managed to keep the number of files hovering around 27,000 that way. Still too large.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting about the crashes in the clothes catalog. I wonder if that's why my clothing catalog crashes so much, even though I don't compress the files. Maybe it's bad or missing meshes.