Crashing Family
witch:
What did you do with the Wardrobe Wrangler that corrupted files, if you don't mind my asking? I've just spent the last couple of days sorting through downloaded clothing. Down from 5-6 GB CC to 1.37GB now.
I fired up the game when I was about half way through and it seems fine so far.
Sivany:
Quote from: witch on 2008 March 28, 20:14:59
What did you do with the Wardrobe Wrangler that corrupted files, if you don't mind my asking? I've just spent the last couple of days sorting through downloaded clothing. Down from 5-6 GB CC to 1.37GB now.
I fired up the game when I was about half way through and it seems fine so far.
I split my clothes into different folders of about 50 files each labelled A, B, C etc so that I didn't have to update them all at once. During one cc organising session I went through three of these folders updating them as necessary (shoe sound, age group etc.) and whilst I was there I deleted three files with the wardrobe wrangler (I'd downloaded better underwear and was planning on replacing the not-so-nice underwear every male sim was wearing). Once I was done I hit the exit button in the wrangler and it errored three times saying something about the files I'd marked for deletion so I assume it was the attempt to delete these files that caused the mess.
I'm not sure why this might have been, the only explanation I can come up with is that I wasn't exiting the wrangler between each folder, I was just loading the new set of files and then editing them, so when I closed it down the currently open folder wasn't the one containing the deleted files.
Whatever it was it was probably my own fault, but luckily I had a backup of the folder on a CD (the backup on my computer had mysteriously disappeared, causing me to panic about losing 150 files of my favourite custom outfits). Once I restored just those three folders of custom clothes from the CD the game loaded up fine again.
witch:
Hmm, I worked from one base folder, then mass moved files once I'd applied filters. I didn't have any errored files after deletion, but I would be in the original folder, so that would fit with your experience. I found it easiest to sort by gender, then by clothing type. It limited the changes in each type to certain sections and made it easier not to miss stuff. I also clicked save after every file because the Wrangler uses a compression algorithm.
Is it possible the files were set to read-only?
Sivany:
No, they definitely weren't read-only, I'm pretty sure it's because I wasn't in the folder when I exited the wrangler. The files I'd just edited were ok because obviously I'd been pressing the save button after everyone, but if you want to delete files you must have to make sure you're still in the right folder when you exit the program.
I never thought about using the filters in that way to limit what I needed to do to each group. I'm going to have to go back through everything and use the filters though because some of my children's clothes were set to both genders when they were clearly only suitable for one and when I was putting them right I've set one to male that now I see it in game should definitely be female!
I will also soon be embarking on the huge task of deleting the extra hair files from my custom hairs, the only problem is I can never remember which ones aren't needed once I see them in the wrangler, I can never work it out from the thumbnail pictures.
witch:
I used a combination of Bodyshop and the Wrangler for clothing - I haven't done the hair yet either. I'd get a group of files, eg female everyday, and put about 100 at a time into my sims downloads folder. (I put all meshes into one ginormous folder in downloads). Then I'd go through in Bodyshop and delete the clothing I didn't want at all. (I had to remember not to delete meshes until I'd done all files.)
When I opened the Wrangler straight after Bodyshop, I remembered pretty much what each item was even if the pictures didn't always show. This made it easier to work through in chunks.
I was planning on a similar method for hair - maybe by gender, then colour, then age. It's much easier to manage these files in batches than in one hit. I haven't tried doing hair in the Wrangler yet, so I guess there'll be a bit of trial and error. I do know there are a zillion grey hairs that match the gorgeous young long curly styles - I know I don't want all those for a start!
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