How do you organize your CC?
dnilecosplayer:
I was wondering if anyone has a good way of organizing all the crap in their downloads folder. Or if someone knows of a program that will somewhat sort it for you. (Like all clothes, hacks, ect. in separate folders). I personally try to keep it to something short of downloads/-insert date I put in downloads folders-/clothes (or name of site)/ (then clothes). I thought that was a good way just in case I put something in there that almost implodes my game. I could just do it day by day instead of 50%, 50%, 50% ect.... But I'm also a very unorganized person so somethings end up in the wrong folder....
So what do you do?
jolrei:
Haven't we played this game already a while ago?
I just have separate folders for hacks, hair, clothes, meshes, and objects. Nothing remarkably special. I use Wardrobe Wrangler to sort/delete clothing and meshes I don't want anymore and keep things tidy. Actually, I rarely use the Wrangler at all to keep anything tidy unless there is a glaring problem that I can no longer ignore. My laziness; let me show you it.
keirra:
I have main folders like Bodyshop, Game objects, Build Items, Hacks, etc., inside those folders I have subfolders. Clothing, Defaults, LivingRoom, etc.. Inside those folders there are more folders. Everything is broken down. I have pictures of everything inside the folders.
I'm really anal about my downloads folder. It makes it very easy to delete the stuff I don't want when I get sick of it.
Blech:
After my total meltdown a couple of weeks ago, due to my former system of just dumping crap in my downloads folder as I found it, I adopted a new system that is working out quite well. I deleted the entire folder and then went in and made sub-folders that match the catalog in-game. So, it goes "Buy Mode", "Comfort", then subfolders "Dining Chairs", "Recliners", etc. Each sub-folder under Buy Mode has another sub-folder which is only for Maxis recolors. I have a separate folder for all hacks, with subfolders for what kind of hack and then more subfolders for who made it or what site it came from. I also have a folder called "CAS" with subfolders for Hair, Clothing, Skintones, etc, separated by more subfolders for gender, and for clothing, by which category it shows up under. To counteract my laziness (which I am working on, I promise!) and to save myself another meltdown, there is a main folder called "New Stuff Here, Tard", where I put freshly downloaded CC until I can test it in game and categorize it. So far, I've been doing pretty well at keeping that one up to date.
I actually only found this site because in the midst of my meltdown, as I was futilely trying to track down and identify all 5000 files in my folder, one by one, a Google search for a filename led me here. I don't remember what it was or if I even found it, because that was the same day I gave up in a fit of rage. Funny story, the CC that caused all this was a very, very ugly hairstyle that had taken over all my hoods, almost all new townies were spawning with it, male and female, although it was obviously supposed to be for females. After my Reformation, I actually downloaded it again. At least this time I found it right away, and got rid of it, without losing everything else too.
JennyJenny:
For those that sub-folder the heck out their downloads (by this I mean separate folders for different types of seating, separate folders for clothing genders and categories, etc.) when do you do this? As you download the items, or later on?
Related question: Does anyone extract from the .zip or .rar into the appropriate folder? Does this make it easier to stay uber-organised?
Right now I have folders for the major categories (clothes, genetics, haxx, objects, etc.) then within these I either have them separated by creator (If I have a substantial amount by a specific person) or if they are a creator I am not familiar with it goes in the appropriate category then into a catch-all called "It Could Be Crap"; if I find I like it, it goes into "It Wasn't Crap!". 3rd party recolors of a creation go into the main folder with the object it recolored. So far (for the past year or so) this has served me fairly well. My biggest pet peeve is when I download a lot that comes with a bunch of CC, because it initially gets dumped into the Downloads folder with few clues as to what the .package file is, and therefore where it should go.
(PS- I used a semi-colon in this post, did I do it correctly?)
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