Delete All Characters booboo redux
croiduire:
OK, I just did something incredibly fucking dumb to my game. I finally got around to installing Apartment Life a couple of weeks ago and was poking around in Belladonna Cove when I thought to add a vacation destination. After doing so, I realised they weren't clean templates and I had all the default fugly EA NPCs, so I entered "delete all characters"... I had never used it before, had forgotten reading that it was a VBT, and thought that would only affect the sub hood I was in, not the base hood. To my great dismay, I discovered my mistake. I started searching here for advice. Oooops.
So...how badly did I screw things up? Needless to say, I don't have a backup. (When I screw things up, I do a good job.) Can I package some of the houses I built/altered, or would it be safer not to? Should I just delete the whole folder? Most of the references I can find concerning using this command are from 2005 or '06, and I'm not sure the info is still accurate or complete.
jolrei:
Start new 'hood. This one's toasted.
As to your houses, I think you can rescue them, if you can be sure they are clean. If they had sims living in them, you will want to use cleaninstaller to make sure there is no residual rubbish in them.
Do you not have clean backups of your houses in the housing bin? My TS2 game never has a house in play that does not also have a clean copy somewhere safe.
croiduire:
You mean...be organised enough to make package files before moving characters in? Me? Of course not. *sigh*
I moved the few lot files out before deleting the folder. (Not sure where they should go.) Now I just have to find the correct clean templates before I reload my game. C'est la vie simulée.
kazebird:
Quote from: croiduire on 2010 January 08, 20:45:07
So...how badly did I screw things up? Needless to say, I don't have a backup.
Always backup your game files! This can be simply copying your downloads and used neighborhoods to your desktop, external hard drive. Or, if you want the extra security of a solid-state drive, do what I do and use a flash-drive to store your backed up sims files.
I want to emphasize that a flash drive is probably the safest way to store valuable data, because disks break easily, while a solid state drive is basically a very durable piece of RAM.
But whatever you do, simply keep a backup somewhere, because you will have BFBVFS eventually, and keeping a backup is the last defense we have against it.
InsanePsychoRabbit:
Since you're talking about an EAxis neighborhood, if you want it again you can retrieve it from the Program Files folder.
The directory to copy is Program Files\The Sims 2 Apartment Life\TSData\res\UserData\Neighborhoods\E001. Copy that to your Neighborhoods folder.
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