Duplicated characteres
danicast:
I think I made it somwhow, my game is about to become a GBFVFS. I was editing some names at SIMPE and discovered that the DEFAULT family is filled with duplicated sims, copies of my playables. My chars folder have 1804 sims and I donīt have all of those sims. I decided to clean the hood (if is already going to become a GBFVFS, it worths the try).
I checked the deleteme2 thread but problem is those chars donīt appear at the debug mode, none of them. The files are there messing my game and making my hood slow but I could not find any of them to purge before I delete using SIMPE.
Suggestions? If I have no suggestions I am going to make the painful way, one by one through simpe, cleaning the hood memo file, etc.
Note: I never did any stupidity like import houses with sims full of memos, etc. I always keep my game clean and organized, I always used all Pescadoīs hack (I started to play TS2 just last year) and I am surprised to see that happened. Interesting to notice that happened after I installed Pets. Now I installed Seasons and just got worse and yes, I patched my game.
Theo:
Does SimPe's sim browser show these duplicate sims as well? And does your Characters folder has files like N001_User00088.package and N001_User00088.1.package?
Before you do anything drastic, check if those duplicate sims have different GUIDS, otherwise deleting those sims might also delete data associated with your original sims:
Finally, if you really need to delete many sims, you can select the ones you want, and use the Deleter Tool on that selection. That will save you time and lots of dialog boxes ;)
danicast:
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check if those duplicate sims have different GUIDS
Yes, they have. It was the first thing I checked when I saw the default family were full of duplicates. Each one of them have they own GUID, have no memories, have no relationships. Itīs almost like my game is making extra copies of my sims.
Achila Goth, as example, a game in-born have 5 copies of himself at the Default family, each one with a different GUID and a N001file associatedl. None of them have memories or relationships with the real sims, itīs all blank.
Some of the duplicated sims are NPC and some of them are deceased sims that I never touched, like the Gothīs ancestors.
I think what I need to do (ouch, it will be a lot of work) is change all suspects names, then check the hood memory file to see if I didnīt changed a valid one by accident (Death and other important ones are at the Default family) and then manually delete one by one.
Check these screenshots:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/denialalice/sim0080.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/denialalice/sim0079.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/denialalice/sim0078.jpg
and you will see what happen: I have the original Agnes Crumblewhatever with her memos (so, the real dead one) and 2 copies of her who have no memory but are individual files, one is N001_User1644 and the other one is N001_User1291. The original one is N001_User030.
The only thing that puzzles me is why my freaking game is doing this??
edit: ok, here what I discovered, apparently my game generated some kind of "backup" of all my sims - thatīs why I have 1804 files, I use to have 983 sims according the backup I made after install Seasons and 974 sims a week ago. The game is using the new ones, I was checking the family trees, the game is using the most high user numbers instead the old ones.
What can be possibly happened in one week to cause this? cause it seemed just happened in last week.
jolrei:
Just a guess, having seen your screenshots: you didn't by chance happen to "move in" or "marry" Mrs. Crumplebottom, did you?
She is a special NPC (like the Grim Reaper) - making these playable, moving in, etc. is a VBT.
danicast:
Nope. Crumblewhatever is the last name of the Goths ancestors - my game is not in english, the name is Rugabaixa (Agnes Rugabaixa is Cornelia Goth mother, I guess). The Rugabaixa are the Goths founders., MS Crumbleetc NPC is named Dona Eugenia in brazilian games, is not easy to mix those. And AGnes start the game pretty much dead.
I am not a stupid to do something like this, I play, mod and hack sims since 2001.
I have no clue what caused this. I am carefull even with the mods and hacks I add to my game, to avoid problems like this. I am starting to think that maybe my game didnīt saved correctly one week ago.
ETA: just FYI I am returning a backup from some days ago. Itīs too much work to manually edit.
Bleh, I wish I found what caused that.
edit again: I think I know what I did that exploded my game: I moved the cemetery. I had an old cemetery that I wanted to evict so I sent a sim there to move the tombs from that cemetery to the new one. I didnīt added the tombs to his inventory I just used the move option. I have the "no unlink on delete" hack.
I think this is what screw my game, try to move the tombs, is the only weird thing I did these days.
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