unlinked characters - deletion
Liss:
I have a neighborhood where I imported sims from other neighborhoods that were overpopulated. It was only just a few characters but now I have over 900 characters in that neighborhood's characters folder. When I look at them in Sim PE, they are all greyed out, and say "unlinked character" or no information or something like that. This includes several duplicate dead copies of characters I imported. Is it safe to delete these character files?
J. M. Pescado:
No, it's not really safe: You'd have to properly set all of the family tie entries, memory references, relationships, and a ton of other crap. By doing this (we've explicitly said not to many times), you've essentially buggered your neighborhood, unless you're a SimPE expert and want to spend a few hours hacking and slashing at it.
HRH Posie:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 July 25, 17:41:57
No, it's not really safe: You'd have to properly set all of the family tie entries, memory references, relationships, and a ton of other crap. By doing this (we've explicitly said not to many times), you've essentially buggered your neighborhood, unless you're a SimPE expert and want to spend a few hours hacking and slashing at it.
I think it would take more than a few hours but here's what you need to do:
To manually remove characters you need to make sure they are not mentioned in any sim's memories. Then remove their sim descriptions (Sim Description under Filetypes in SimPE) and the corresponding character file from the \My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\N00X\Characters folder. Note X is the number of the neighbourhood.
I guess it depends on how much you like the neighbourhood...
J. M. Pescado:
Well, it would take *ME* a few hours, assuming intimate familiarity with the neighborhood, to relink all entries together to a single stub, and purge all of the "false" stubs. Assuming you LACK an intimate familiar with both SimPE and your neighborhood, this task is pretty much impossible. Your neighborhood is just simply buggered.
Liss:
So even though there are only a few characters in the neighborhood, the number of characters in the actual folder will cause a problem?
Also, what about the duplicate copies of the same character? That would thin out the folder a LOT.
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