How much is too much
Motoki:
I trashed all my stuff and started over and I while I do miss a few things, I did manage to get most of them back and I don't regret it. I would literally spend days on file management and pruning and never play the damned game and I got tired of it.
One thing to consider when downloading and chosing what to delete is the file size. A lot of recolors are small files. Many are under 100k, some well under. That's really not so much. But skins, a lot of clothes, most hair etc are HUGE files most times so I am far more selective about them and quicker to get rid of them. They are also more of a pain in the ass to delete since you have to go into the CAS or bodyshop to do it and it takes forever. :P
Motoki:
Hmm, I just noticed another sign of my addiction. I downloaded a whole mess of Halloween crap and have not even gotten around to using it and don't really have time to mess with the game tonight. Luckily I put it all in its own halloween subdirectory so it's going right in the trash!
I think part of my problem is a lot of times I don't get just get things I know I will use but I grab all sorts of stuff just in case I might want to use it at some point. ::) I need to get better about really truthfully asking myself if I will have a definitely use for something before I download it or I'll end up with another 9 GB again and have to trash it all over again. :(
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 November 01, 01:06:47
I trashed all my stuff and started over and I while I do miss a few things, I did manage to get most of them back and I don't regret it. I would literally spend days on file management and pruning and never play the damned game and I got tired of it.
One thing to consider when downloading and chosing what to delete is the file size. A lot of recolors are small files. Many are under 100k, some well under. That's really not so much. But skins, a lot of clothes, most hair etc are HUGE files most times so I am far more selective about them and quicker to get rid of them. They are also more of a pain in the ass to delete since you have to go into the CAS or bodyshop to do it and it takes forever. :P
what I hate is when a certain hair type suddenly decideds to multiply and its a Maxis shipped hair so you cant delete it . the hair I have multipling of is own accord is the Meg hair any clue How I can get rid of all the excess meg hair?
Motoki:
More than likely that is actually a hair texture that you don't have the mesh for or vice versa. Also there was an issue with older versions of SimPE where if you made a new clothing or hair mesh and made recolors for it, the recolors would not work unless you also had the original texture for that hair in your downloads.
What the game does in these instances when it can't find a piece it needs is to substitute a default Maxis item instead. For women's clothes it's usually that damned frumpy red shirt that's not tucked in with the white capri pants and red cheap sneakers. I guess for women's hair it the meg do. You can safely delete them, but I'm not sure if it it will leave residual files. It probably will. ::)
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 November 01, 01:31:36
More than likely that is actually a hair texture that you don't have the mesh for or vice versa. Also there was an issue with older versions of SimPE where if you made a new clothing or hair mesh and made recolors for it, the recolors would not work unless you also had the original texture for that hair in your downloads.
What the game does in these instances when it can't find a piece it needs is to substitute a default Maxis item instead. For women's clothes it's usually that damned frumpy red shirt that's not tucked in with the white capri pants and red cheap sneakers. I guess for women's hair it the meg do. You can safely delete them, but I'm not sure if it it will leave residual files. It probably will. ::)
how do I delete them
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